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As I embark on my annual round of interviewing potential candidates to join the growing Radius Graduate scheme, it is always interesting to listen to the questions they have brought along to ask me, about what I think is important in terms of how they approach their first role.

Last year, I had the privilege of speaking at the Fast Growth Icons event in Manchester, held at The Edwardian Manchester - an invitation-only gathering of around 80 founders and CEOs from some of the region’s most ambitious and fastest-growing scale-ups.

Bill Holmes is a remarkable man. In 1990, he founded a company called UK Fuels from a small flat above a hair salon in Cheshire. Today that company, now known as Radius, employs 2,800 people and has an annual turnover of £4.7bn.