Ok, you've convinced me! And I appreciate your input!
As far as I can tell in my position I think you do get the balance right - I just had to take issue with the 'desperate scrabbling at the foot of the industry' comment, knowing that at one time, you too must have been in our position!
Any one of us thats spent more than a few days trying to get a foot on the ladder knows the spin we've been fed is BS but that doesn't mean we set out expecting job offers to be easy to secure, it just means we've all set out with the hope that we will be the lucky one. And while its crucial to be well-informed, surely you can understand this wide-eyed enthusiastic hope!?
So at the risk of sounding trite...Thanks for being 'entirely sympathetic to [our] dreams and aspirations' and please keep up the good work (but maybe in a slightly less harsh tone!
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