by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 7, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
STRUGGLING TO FIND WORK? TRY HAVING A DISABILITY TOO It has been claimed that graduate jobseekers with ‘neuro-diverse’ disabilities are not receiving enough support from universities and the government to help them into work, as competition for graduate...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 5, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs
ONE IN 20 CANDIDATES FIBS IN THEIR APPLICATION, SAYS EXPERT Graduates keen to land a job should not be tempted to massage the truth when completing their application, an expert has warned. Richard Connelly from Agenda Security Services told Graduate Fog he’s...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 30, 2010 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
**GRADUATE FOG GUEST BLOG POST!** BY BILL BOORMAN, FOUNDER OF THE RECRUITING UNBLOG AND SOCIAL JOB SEARCH Tomorrow I’m going to the theatre to see Spamalot again (being a baby-boomer, I love all the Python stuff). The musical opens with the words...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 28, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
GRADUATE FOG QUIZZES HMRC OVER SYSTEM THAT FAILS YOUNG WORKERS The people responsible for protecting interns from exploitation have failed to assure Graduate Fog that they understand the scale or complexity of the situation they are in charge of policing. In an...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 23, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Uncategorized, Universities
GRIM PROSPECTS FOR GRADUATES ARE “FANTASTIC NEWS” FOR EMPLOYERS A senior jobs expert has clashed with appalled graduates by suggesting that news that a third of call centre workers in the UK now have a degree is “fantastic.” That this figure...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 21, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Politicians, Uncategorized, Unpaid internships
WORK FOR ELEVEN MONTHS UNPAID – WITH NO EXPENSES A hawk-eyed Graduate Fogger has spotted what could be the most outrageous ad EVER for an internship ‘opportunity.’ Powerful Media – “a cutting edge media consultancy firm based in Canary...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 14, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
NEW BOOK BLAMES YEARS OF SHORT-SIGHTED POLITICS FOR THE PLIGHT OF TODAY’S YOUNG WORKERS Two young journalists have launched a blistering attack on the politicians who have failed to protect the welfare of today’s young job-seekers. In their new book Jilted...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 9, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
GRADUATE FOG STONEWALLED BY ANCIENT SYSTEM THAT PUTS EMPLOYERS FIRST AND INTERNS LAST In August, I made an official complaint against the big companies that Graduate Fog knows have been advertising for unpaid interns. At least, I tried to. I’m disappointed to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 8, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
ONLY SIX PROSECUTIONS IN FOUR YEARS, FINDS GRADUATE FOG Shocking statistics discovered by Graduate Fog suggest that the official complaints procedure in place to protect interns from exploitation needs an urgent re-think. Left as it is now, the current system will...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 3, 2010 | Universities, Unpaid internships
DURHAM, EXETER, ST ANDREWS, SUSSEX AND 15 OTHERS WANT YOU TO WORK FOR FREE You’ve just graduated. You’ve paid thousands of pounds in tuition fees – and now you can’t get a job anywhere. How do you fancy going to work for your university –...
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