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The power of learning from failure and turning it into success is celebrated in a new British Army campaign aiming to inspire new recruits. The “Fail. Learn. Win” recruitment campaign, launching on Thursday, focuses on how failings can be “the first step towards victory” and not a reason to quit. It was informed by research suggesting 81% of young people do not achieve their goals “because of fear of failure”, with the campaign aiming to combat perceptions that failure is a weakness...

The recruitment drive was launched after new research indicated 76 percent of young people feel held back by a fear of failure when taking on new challenges. A total of 54 percent of 16-25-year-olds in the Perspectus Global survey also claimed a fear of judgement from other people was the main reason they were scared to fail. Conservative MP Sir John Hayes, who founded the backbench Common Sense Group, has criticised the new campaign and accused the Army of kowtowing to "snowflakes". He told Ex...

Capita plc - Army Recruitment Contract Extension PR Newswire Capita secures Army recruitment contract extension Capita plc (Capita) today announces it has been awarded a contract extension with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to continue to deliver the recruitment service for the British Army. The two-year contract extension is worth £140m and will start in March 2022, when the current 10-year contract was due to end. Under the original contract the MoD had the option of extending Capitas contra...