by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 23, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
LAWYERS AND RESEARCHERS BAN US FROM PRESENTING THE BASIC FACTS Graduate Fog’s founder Tanya de Grunwald was dropped hours before a planned TV appearance on Friday’s BBC Breakfast – after she refused producers’ requests to tell viewers that...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 19, 2013 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
THEY’RE BAD – BUT MAKE SURE YOU ADVERTISE THEM WIDELY, HE SAYS David Cameron has sent out a confusing message to employers on the subject of unpaid internships – condemning the practice while insisting it’s important the positions are...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 18, 2013 | Applications, average graduate salary, Business, CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Universities, Wages
WE DON’T CARE WHERE YOU STUDIED, CLAIM BOSSES Graduate employers have revealed crucial secrets about how they compare candidates’ degrees when assessing which applicants to invite for interview. The good news is that the university you studied at is less...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 17, 2013 | average graduate salary, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Recession and economy, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
*GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* REVENGE OF THE “POOR PEOPLE” AS YOUNG WORKERS CHALLENGE TOP DESIGNER A top British fashion designer has urged “poor people” to “buy less” and “be careful” when spending money on clothes –...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 16, 2013 | Applications, Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Universities
BUT WHOSE FAULT IS IT IF YOU NEED MORE TRAINING? More than half of the UK’s biggest employers have complained that ‘none or few’ of the graduates they have taken on this year were ‘job ready’ (in other words, ready to start doing useful...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 12, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Housing, job hunting, Parents and family, Recession and economy, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare, zero hours contracts
CRITICS HIGHLIGHT “HUGE INEQUALITIES” BETWEEN GENERATIONS’ FINANCES AS ECONOMY PICKS UP (APPARENTLY) Politicians are celebrating as new figures show that the UK economy is recovering – but critics insist that the country’s young people...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 11, 2013 | Applications, Business, CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail
DO EMPLOYERS TAKE THE MICK OUT OF YOUNG JOBSEEKERS? A university graduate has said he was asked to dance to a Daft Punk track during a job interview at Currys, the electronics superstore, saying he felt “degraded”, “crushed” and stripped of his...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 2, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Job boards, Unpaid internships, Wages
“WE SHOULD HAVE BACKED YOUNG JOBSEEKERS FROM THE START”, BOSS ADMITS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* Today Milkround, the leading UK job board for graduates, has made a stunning announcement that they will no longer run adverts for unpaid internships – and...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 2, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Uncategorized, Unpaid internships, Wages
MILKROUND, TARGET JOBS AND OTHERS JOIN MONSTER AND TOTAL JOBS IN PLEDGE TO YOUNG JOBSEEKERS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* The UK’s biggest job boards have united in making a historic pledge to remove adverts for unpaid internships which appear to break the UK...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 30, 2013 | average graduate salary, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare, zero hours contracts
AND AVERAGE GRADUATE SALARY IS £24,000 (APPARENTLY) A new survey has claimed that just 3% of people who graduated during the recession were unemployed three and a half years later – and the average graduate salary for those in work is £24,000. But struggling...
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