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1962: Starting a Job as a Secretary | Going to Work | World of Work | BBC Archive
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19:58Now PlayingBBC film for Schools, introduced by Peter West.
More than 87,000 girls go into some kind of clerical or secretarial work every year. A BBC Film Unit goes to Lawson's Bacon Factory in Aberdeen to look at the office jobs that some school-leavers find, the types of skills they'll need and what they can aim for when they are older.
Clip taken from Going to Work: Clerical and Secretarial Work , originally broadcast on BBC Television, 12 February, 1962.
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