by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 20, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
CULTURE SECRETARY JEREMY HUNT BRAZENLY TOUTS MULTIPLE ROLES The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt is advertising for multiple “constituency interns”, paying travel expenses only. The roles are targeted at recent graduates and involve “assisting the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 19, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
EVEN TOP UNIVERSITIES OFFER POOR ADVICE, SAY JOBLESS GRADUATES A senior figure in the world of university career advice has admitted that the industry must do more to help graduates into work, as record youth unemployment statistics were announced last week....
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 18, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
LABEL REFUSES TO COMMENT – AND LATER REMOVES OFFENDING ADVERT *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The fashion brand Vivienne Westwood has advertised a full-time, three-month unpaid internship on their company website, refused to answer our questions about how they feel...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 17, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
MEET THE ‘STOCKHOLM SYNDROME’ INTERNS: HAPPY TO WORK FULL-TIME FOR FREE Seven former interns from the recruitment company Reed have told Graduate Fog they were definitely NOT exploited during their months working there full-time, earning around £90 a week....
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 12, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
BYLINES, CONTACTS, FREE TICKETS AND MEALS WERE FAIR REWARD FOR INTERNS’ WORK, HE CLAIMS A company founder has angered graduates by insisting that young people would shoot themselves in the foot if unpaid internships were banned. He also suggested that interns...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 11, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
THEIR SCIENCE ADVISERS PAY THEIR INTERNS JUST £100 A WEEK EXPENSES **GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!** A recruiter in charge of hiring unpaid interns at the Royal Society — the UK science academy which advises the United Nations and the European Commission — has...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 8, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEXT PHASE OF OUR ‘PAY YOUR INTERNS’ CAMPAIGN TARGETS HIGH-PROFILE BRITISH BUSINESS OWNERS Do Dragons’ Den judges Duncan Bannatyne, Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Theo Paphitis and Hilary Devey have interns working within their companies – and if...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 5, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
…YET CLAIM THEY ARE “PASSIONATE” ABOUT PROTECTING YOUNG WORKERS FROM EXPLOITATION *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* Topshop has admitted to hiring interns — and paying them only £3.50 a day. These young workers are expected to work five days a week from...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 4, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
…YET TELLS US IT “DOES NOT HAVE AN INTERNS SCHEME” Tesco told Graduate Fog that it “does not have an intern scheme” — 10 days before the supermarket was forced to remove adverts for 145 unpaid “customer assistance”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 30, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
THEY MADE COFFEE, CLEANED OFFICES AND TOOK OUT THE BINS Two interns who worked on the Oscar-winning film Black Swan are suing studio Fox Searchlight. They claim their employer used them to complete menial work that did little to educate them in the business of...
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