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Wasn't taught anything practical in school whatsoever. I was amazed to find out a local school taught cookery to the kids. The old typng qualifications (RSA II and RSA III) are allegedly pre-requirements in a lot of places, and they list it in the job requirement BUT the RSA institute has in fact been closed for over a decade, which may give you a good indication of how on-the-ball HR is in the UK. PROTIP: applicants for clerical/data jobs in the UK should write "RSA II equivalent" on their forms, it ticks a box on the their list of requirements, and is entirely unprovable.