by Tanya de Grunwald | May 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
GRADUATE FOG IN THE GUARDIAN AGAIN – THAT’S TWICE IN A MONTH! Graduate Fog is chuffed to bits! This website has been live for just SIX WEEKS and already we’ve had our SECOND mention from the Guardian! A couple of weeks ago, the editor of the Work...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
EVEN “UK’S OFFICIAL GRADUATE CAREERS WEBSITE” ADMITS BLANKING ALL BUT SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS We all know it happens. You spend hours slaving over their detailed application form – and never hear a peep back from the recruiter. Not a rejection...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
NOW WILL POLITICIANS TAKE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT SERIOUSLY? *Thinking dark thoughts? We promise you’re not alone — and there is help available. Please contact PAPYRUS or the Samaritans now. Suicide is always a tragic waste and it’s never the solution to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
“UK’S OFFICIAL GRADUATE CAREERS WEBSITE” URGES FEMALE CANDIDATES TO WEAR SKIRTS, NOT TROUSERS, TO JOB INTERVIEWS Are you a female graduate looking for work? Then let the dusty, crusty ‘experts’ at careers website Graduate Prospects...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
AND GRADS FACE ‘DOUBLE WHAMMY’ AS UNEMPLOYMENT RISES TOO Money men warned today that more than 3.5 million students and graduates should brace yourselves for a big jump in student loan rates this year, after a surprise surge in inflation last month. One...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
CRUCIAL DEBATE CAN’T MOVE FORWARD UNTIL THEY AGREE WHAT UNI IS FOR A piece I wrote for the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ section has been greeted like a long-lost sibling. Not only has the article prompted 104 comments (last count as at 15.30 on...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
ONE IN THREE FEELS GOVERNMENT HASN’T DONE ENOUGH DURING RECESSION Fresh research shows that a third of students feel the government should have done more to help graduates find jobs during the recession – and a quarter don’t expect the situation to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
COULD JOBLESS GRADS BE FORCED TO SWEEP THE STREETS? David Cameron announced today that he’s getting tough on anybody who says they can’t find a job – and Graduate Fog has no reason to think he isn’t including jobless graduates in that. In what...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
GRADUATE GLOOM THREATENS PROPOSED UNI FEES HIKE Graduates have never been more disillusioned. Degrees have never cost more – but you say they’ve never been worth less. The graduate job market is still feeling the squeeze of recession – and unpaid...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
SIX IN TEN SAY UNI WASN’T WORTH IT, ONLINE SURVEY SHOWS Every now and then, I down several cups of strong black coffee and visit Prospects.ac.uk, the only graduate careers website that universities will recommend to you lot, despite the fact that –...
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