by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 28, 2016 | Business, Media and journalism, Money, Unpaid internships
PLACEMENT “PERFECT FOR A BUDDING JOURNALIST” (AS LONG AS THEY CAN PAY TO DO IT) Business newspaper City AM is offering a one-week internship at its London headquarters – but it is only open to those who can afford to pay at least £650 for the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 22, 2016 | graduate debt, Money, Politicians, student loan
IF GOVERNMENT CAN BACKTRACK ON OTHER LOAN GUARANTEES, WHY NOT THAT ONE TOO? Not too bothered about your student loan, as you know anything you still owe in 30 years’ time will be written off? Students and graduates should be much more worried about the security...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 18, 2016 | Employers and recruitment, London, Money
NEARLY 4 MILLION SQUEEZED WORKERS TRAVEL OVER 2 HOURS PER DAY – ARE SKY HIGH RENTS TO BLAME? How long is your daily commute? Or, if you’re job hunting, how long would you be prepared to spend travelling to and from work every day? The number of employees...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 6, 2016 | Politicians, Unpaid internships
PROPOSALS GO UNHEARD AS EDUCATION SECRETARY’S TEAM SNUBS INVITATION TO PRESENT IDEAS * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE * The head of the government department tasked with fixing social mobility in the UK has refused to meet campaigners for fair internships to discuss the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 2, 2016 | Employers and recruitment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
CAMPAIGNERS INTERN AWARE EXPLAIN WHAT’S GOING ON Confused by talk of a new ‘ban’ on unpaid internships, since most of them are already illegal? We were too – so we asked our friends at Intern Aware to clarify. They’ve explained that there...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 27, 2016 | student loan, Tuition fees, Universities, Unpaid internships
ANGER GROWS AS ORGANISATION CONTINUES TO IGNORE CORE CAMPAIGN ISSUES There was a time when the National Union of Students (NUS) was a force to be reckoned with, campaigning hard on core issues affecting UK students. But is it still? Or is it now just a glorified...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 18, 2016 | Graduate Jobs, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
TWO-WEEK ‘GRUNT WORK’ ROLE COULD LEAD TO PAID WORK, SAYS OWNER A controversial, two-week internship at Heat magazine will go ahead as an unpaid position, a spokesperson has announced, despite outcry from young people who feel the role is just ‘grunt...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 11, 2016 | Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
BUT THEY CLAIM IT’S A CHANCE TO ‘SHADOW AND LEARN’ * OOH! THIS STORY HAS BEEN PICKED UP BY THE BBC AND THE GUARDIAN! * Heat magazine has angered young job seekers by advertising a “grunt work” placement in its fashion cupboard, paying...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 6, 2016 | Banking, Business, diversity, Employers and recruitment, social mobility
WHAT EXACTLY DID HE MEAN? * STORY PICKED UP BY THE LONDON EVENING STANDARD! * A senior spokesperson for HSBC has suggested graduates should use family connections to help them find out about jobs. In an article published in The Times Graduate Supplement earlier this...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 27, 2016 | Careers advice, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate schemes
BECAUSE “EVERYONE LIKES TO BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER” Energy firm E.ON is sponsoring the Graduate Fog Advice Zone — a vast archive of essential articles that serves thousands of young job seekers in the UK. E.ON is one of the UK’s most...
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