Needless to say I passed on buying it! I still have mine at home stuffed full of swimming badges.

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  3. I don’t know anyone who ever used it. I’d love to whip it out at my next job interview, just to see their faces.

  4. Can’t believe how much effort i put into my handwritting for that in 1996. Not read by a single human being since I wrote in it.

  5. I was told I would need to take this to any job interview if I was to have a chance of getting employed. Long story short 30 years later and I have never used it

  7. I might be a bit young for this one (born 1997) and don’t have a clue what this is

  8. Wow. Still have mine. I took this to my first job interview full of certificates and whatever else was stuffed in there. Got the job.

  9. Look for the ink stuck to the pages inside, you’ll be able to see whose it was and what qualifications they got

  10. The biggest lie we were told in high school. Nobody ever asked me if they could see it.

  11. Not seen mine since my last day of school when they handed it to me

  12. I’m 48 and I still have mine. I read my personal statement when I was sorting out the garage during COVID and – wow – such blind optimism. To this day I cannot think why my GCSE French Certificate seems to be made out of a paper containing human leg hair.

  14. I know mine will be used in an interview at some point. Still…35 years later.

  15. I still remember my form teacher in 6th form getting genuinely worried for me that I might struggle in my university interview, and future job interviews, because I immediately dismissed it as a slightly embarrassing waste of time.

  16. Still have mine, at the time teachers weren’t allowed to to say anything bad or negative about you because it may affect your chances of obtaining employment in the future, as such mine is now a masterclass of strategically worded statements that carefully stay within the rules of not directly criticising me whilst also not exactly singing my praises 😆
    I’ve been self employed since I was 18 so to be fair, I knew exactly what it was I was employing 😂

  18. Still have mine! There is a certificate inside for ‘bouncing a ball the most times in 1 minute’ particularly proud of that one 👩🏽‍🎓

  19. I feel cheated I don’t have one, was it nationwide? I was born late ‘60’s.

  20. When I was sixteen I got a job in KFC. I still remember laughing to myself when someone bought one in for their interview.

  21. I wonder if someone somewhere is still laughing on the pile of money they received from getting the printing contract for these?

  22. i’ve still got mine, each of the plastic folders is immaculate and virgin… much like me at the time.

  24. Mine went in the bin about 5 minutes after receiving it 😂😂😂

  25. My teacher wrote about another student in mine. Always makes me laugh when I see it, and “Achievement” was stretching the truth a lot too.

  26. You shouldn’t be so dismissive. I have it on the authority of several of my GCSE teachers that such tomes are VITAL to survival in British society.

    I can definitely tell you where mine is. Just give me a few days.

  27. I was trying to come up with a joke about the NRA and gun control here but I can’t quite do it justice.

  28. I can’t help thinking some dodgy donor produces these. Think how many millions must be produced and given to kids over the decades. Someone has made a mint

    I brought mine to my work experience interview and they found it “cute”. I think it had a certificate for raising money for LEPRA and a fire safety award with my name incorrectly written across the top.

  31. Holy Krud that brings back memories.

    Shame the owner felt they have to part with it

  32. We had a lesson a week dedicated to this. It was in the time table abbreviated to R.O.ACH. Classy.

  34. My school year was the first in the country to have the NRA, 30 years later it’s been as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike

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