by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 3, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
THE ECONOMIST INSULTS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GRADUATES The Economist has published an article which insults tens of thousands of graduates by insisting most interns have “only a vague notion of what work involves”. It also appears to be a direct endorsement...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 1, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
SITE IS “TOO CASUAL” FOR PROFESSIONAL INTERACTION, SAY YOUNG JOBSEEKERS Job-hunting graduates have sent a clear message to big-name employers that they don’t think Facebook is an appropriate forum for applicants and recruiters to interact. Instead,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 24, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
FIVE “OLYMPICS MEDIA HANDLING INTERNS” MUST WORK NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS – FOR NO MONEY An advert has been posted for five “Olympic media handling interns” who must be available for six-hour shifts between 6am and midnight, throughout the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 19, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
UNIVERSITIES SHOULD BACK THEIR GRADUATES, NOT THOSE WHO SEEK TO EXPLOIT THEM Remember the unpaid press office internship at Spurs football club? And the “sales assistant internship” at the designer fashion brand Balenciaga? Both were advertised by...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 18, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, Parents and family, Wages
YET YOUTH JOBLESSNESS REMAINS ABOVE ONE IN FIVE – WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? The latest unemployment figures show that the number of over 65s in work has risen by 52,000 to reach 929,000, the highest number since records began in 1992. Yet in the same...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 17, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
FIGHT! ROW ESCALATES BETWEEN GRADUATE FOG AND THE ‘OFFICIAL’ GRADUATE CAREERS WEBSITE The “official” graduate careers advice website Prospects — recommended by every university careers centre in the country — has told Graduate Fog...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 16, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
NEW DISASTER CONFIRMS PROGRAMME IS “AN ALMIGHTY MESS” The Labour party has attacked the Coalition’s flagship welfare-to-work programme, calling it “an almighty mess”. The accusation came after it emerged that over a million fewer people...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 11, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Parents and family
(AND WHEN YOU SHOULD INVITE THEM TO BUTT IN) **GUEST BLOG POST BY ANNE WILSON, ONE-TO-ONE GRADUATE CAREERS ADVISER FOR GRADUATES AT GRADUATEJOBMENTOR.CO.UK** “They nag constantly. I know they’re worried, but they don’t seem to realise how hard it...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 5, 2012 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
“WORST EXAMPLE” OF ARTS INDUSTRY EXPLOITATION IS FINALLY SHUT DOWN London’s Old Vic theatre has announced it will suspend its main unpaid intern programme from September, following a lengthy campaign by the arts union BECTU and Arts Council England...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 4, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEW SURVEY SHOCKS VAST MAJORITY OF LOW-EARNING GRADUATES A new survey has shown that the average graduate salary is now £29,000 – leading Graduate Fog to ask where on earth the researchers found these high-rolling young people they polled. Most of the graduates...
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