by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Just graduated, living back at home with you folks – and having a rubbish time generally? I’m offering FREE 1-2-1 CAREER ADVICE for anyone who’d like to appear in an article I’ve been commissioned to write for a national newspaper. If...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
This one’s a bit controversial I know, if you’re strugging to find work… but the journalist Giles Coren reckons the Class of 2009 are actually lucky… How? Because cuts to grad schemes with the employers mean you’ve been spared the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you’re stuffing envelopes, pulling pints or frothing milk at Starbucks this summer, there is one reason to be joyful – a new article says you’re actually being smart. Doing menial work means you own more of your personal brainpower than someone...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
How happy was I to stumble across a discussion between baffled graduates recommending my book to one another on Prospects.ac.uk?! Click here to see what they’re saying…
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Busy sending off applications to jobs – and feel like recruiters have all the power? Not for long. It might tickle you to know that in fact, recruiters are scared of YOU. Why? Because graduates are changing – and the big employers don’t know how to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
Which sucks more: the application process – or the applicants themselves? Roll up your sleeves and get involved in the Guardian’s online debate here. Dude? fears this one could run and run…
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
You’ve known it for yonks – but now stats support your tales of rejection, frustration and exhaustion on the graduate job-hunt scene. The latest figures say up to 50 of you will apply for every job this summer. Bummer. Head honcho at the Association of...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Dude has a Facebook fanclub! Click here to join
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
Need help deciding what to do with your life? Like watching TV? Thought so. Then you’ll love CareerPlayer.com as much as Dude? does. Founder Rob Westcott knows job-seeking graduates are far too busy (!) to wade through long-winded careers articles online. Which...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Looks like Dude has ruffled a few feathers – after taking part in an article for the Guardian in which I suggested that (most but not all) university careers advice centres are more than a teensy bit out of touch with the students they need to reach… Read...
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