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  "textContent": "The Last Word: Not every graduate role will disappear. The issue is not the end of the junior career, but the need for firms to redesign it. For years, the first rung of professional life was built from work nobody especially loved. Junior bankers checked models. Consultants cleaned slides. Lawyers reviewed documents. Graduates wrote first […]\n\nThe first rung is vanishing was originally published on Emerging Europe.",
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