BBC3 seeks job-hunting grads for new documentary

BBC3 seeks job-hunting grads for new documentary

by | Apr 22, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Retail, Uncategorized, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages

BRIGHT AND ARTICULATE? WANT TO SHARE YOUR STORY? The BBC is looking for job-seeking graduates to take part in a new documentary about the graduate jobs crisis. The producers have assured Graduate Fog that the programme – which will air on BBC3 – will not...
Employers paranoid they are on ‘intern hit list’ passed to officials

Employers paranoid they are on ‘intern hit list’ passed to officials

by | Apr 12, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages

BIG BRANDS PANIC, FEARING INVESTIGATION, FINES AND PUBLIC SHAME Big brands that have been brazenly advertising unpaid internships – and the big job boards that carry these adverts – were feeling the heat today as a list of 100 big companies who have been...
Pulling pints or waiting tables? Quit your stop-gap job NOW, graduates warned

Pulling pints or waiting tables? Quit your stop-gap job NOW, graduates warned

by | Apr 10, 2013 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Universities, Wages

ONE IN FOUR WHO TAKE NON-GRADUATE JOBS ARE STILL THERE THREE AND A HALF YEARS LATER Graduates who take ‘stop-gap’ jobs after finishing university because they can’t find a graduate role are being urged to move on quickly. New research shows that one...
Graduates on benefits – strivers or skivers?

Graduates on benefits – strivers or skivers?

by | Apr 4, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Housing, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare

WHY ARE EDUCATED YOUNG PEOPLE RECEIVING WELFARE PAYMENTS? Recently graduated – and claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, housing benefit or any other form of welfare ‘hand-out’? Do you consider yourself a striver – or a skiver? As the...
Work programme jobseekers denied compensation for docked benefits

Work programme jobseekers denied compensation for docked benefits

by | Mar 20, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare

LAWYERS BLAST POLITICIANS’ SNEAKY “RETROACTIVE” LAW TO AVOID MASS PAY-OUTS The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is trying to rush a ‘retroactive’ law through parliament so the government can avoid paying £130m in benefit rebates to...
“Don’t live in a big city? Good luck getting a graduate job”

“Don’t live in a big city? Good luck getting a graduate job”

by | Mar 18, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, job hunting, Parents and family, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages

YOUNG, RURAL JOBSEEKERS HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN, SAYS ONE GRADUATE It’s tough finding a proper, paid graduate job at the moment, wherever you live. But when home is a long way from the nearest big city and you don’t have a car, rural graduates say it’s...
Three quarters of young people can’t afford to intern unpaid

Three quarters of young people can’t afford to intern unpaid

by | Mar 13, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages

EXCLUDED OUTNUMBER THE EXPLOITED THREE TO ONE, NEW SURVEY FINDS It’s official – the number of young people who can’t afford to intern unpaid in London is far greater than the number who can. A must-read new survey – by the Unions21 Fair Work...