To all those who have studied or study history

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Originally Posted by SoFarSoGood

I did Classics and Philosophy and was hired by the Foreign Office before I left Uni. Historians are vastly under-rated in todays jobs market in my opinion. Without the perspective that a study of history gives you cannot see the bigger picture, nor begin to fathom long term consequences of decisions made today.

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Interesting. What was your CV like in addition to your degree though? And I'm assuming you went to a Russel Group university. Apparently the civil service fast stream tends to take on a lot of historians.

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Originally Posted by SoFarSoGood

I did Classics and Philosophy and was hired by the Foreign Office before I left Uni. Historians are vastly under-rated in todays jobs market in my opinion. Without the perspective that a study of history gives you cannot see the bigger picture, nor begin to fathom long term consequences of decisions made today.

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Interesting. What was your CV like in addition to your degree though? And I'm assuming you went to a Russel Group university. Apparently the civil service fast stream tends to take on a lot of historians.

Perhaps consider Political Science as an alternative to history?