Students often tell me about the barriers they face getting experience and finding work during my weekly drop-in clinic.
Sometimes debugging their CV is relatively straightforward, a few tweaks here and there can make a big difference to their chances of getting an interview. Other times, the issues are more complex. Debugging their future often requires decoding it first, see figure @ref(fig:decoding-fig).
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There are patterns, or anti-patterns, I've spotted in trying to understand and decode problems students have coding their future. This chapter describes them, maybe you'll recognise some of them in yourself or your peers.
## What you will learn
In this chapter you will learn
- Identify patterns and
- Decode your future