Regardless of the type or experience level of the job, a thank-you email should always be sent within 24 hours of the meeting.

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Frequently, to fill posts abroad and to maintain a mandated level of staffing, individuals are being sent abroad to frontline posts who have no significant operational experience and may not even be fully trained to function as ops officers.

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Statements sent in my experience five minutes before they're delivered, even though they might be 40 pages long, and even so, with all the figures crossed out, so giving no opportunity whatsoever for the opposition spokesman really to engage with the debate, because everything that comes up is a surprise.

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