Sentence examples for general trainees from inspiring English sources

Her father pronounced that shorthand and typing were the thing, so she did a secretarial course, after which she applied to the BBC, only to be told – her first-class degree could go hang – "that the competition for general trainees is confined to men".

Journalism, she said, seemed very masculine at the time, and though she had secretarial skills, fluent French and a first in English, she was rejected by the BBC on the grounds that 'the competition for general trainees is confined to men'.

He read modern history at Oxford and joined the BBC as a general trainee in 1961.

In 1958 Drummond was picked out as a general trainee on the BBC's fast-track recruitment scheme.

He started his BBC career as a general trainee in 1981, going on to become head of factual in Bristol.

Hooper began his career at the BBC, joining as a general trainee after graduating from Oxford in 1963 and helping to found the Open University.

Bragg started his career at the BBC as a general trainee in 1961, moving on to produce the arts show Monitor in 1963.

Entwistle becomes the first DG for 25 years to have spent his entire career at the BBC after joining as a general trainee.

Thompson was a BBC general trainee – one of a select sort of Brahmin class of usually Oxbridge graduates – who were tutored, mentored and, if it worked out, groomed for higher things.

In 1958 he was picked out as a general trainee on the fast track recruitment scheme which the BBC had devised to catapult high flyers into plum production jobs.

Although he completed a teaching diploma - and would have made an inspiring teacher - he joined the BBC as a general trainee in 1968, and after three years as a staff producer in London and Durham returned to work for the newly established BBC Radio Oxford.