This was the case for Priya, who started a sales and marketing role in London after an interview that promised a career-progression plan. In reality, large-scale changes in the business as a whole have meant that she has been shuffled from one project to another, and colleagues who are worried for their jobs have been reluctant to share knowledge and make themselves less valuable. “I’ve been expected to hit the ground running with limited training,” she says. “Nothing discussed in the interview actually panned out.”