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You may already have realised that employers are a lot less interested in your degree than they are in your experience: the difficulty lies in getting the experience! You can get a certain amount of experience while still studying, and you should without fail choose a dissertation topic that is relevant to the career you would like to have. Your dissertation is far and away the most important element of your course as far as employability goes, because it is what distinguishes you from all the other thousands of graduates who will leave university this year.

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Chapter 1

  1. Exchange theory implies that individuals place different values on the products and services which are available. This means that one person who values a good at a low level is happy to exchange with someone who places a higher value on the same good. This being the case, both parties end up better off and can therefore feel happy about the exchange. Were this not the case, people would be unwill­ing to trade.