by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 31, 2013 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
GOOD GRADES ARE WORTHLESS WITHOUT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE, SAY UK’S BIG GRADUATE RECRUITERS Graduates who worked hard on their studies but spent their summers doing bar work or a shop job will miss out on the best graduate jobs in 2013, analysts have said. In an...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 24, 2013 | Business, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
GRADUATE VACANCIES AND SALARIES WILL RISE IN 2013, NEW SURVEY PREDICTS There could finally be some good news on the horizon for the UK’s job-seeking graduates – a new survey of the country’s top employers suggests that the number of vacancies will...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 11, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
PRET A MANGER WORKERS MUST APPEAR “AUTHENTICALLY HAPPY” – FOR £6.25 AN HOUR The sandwich chain Pret A Manger has been accused of making unreasonable demands on their young workers, expecting them to be all smiles at all times – despite earning...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 8, 2013 | Unpaid internships, Wages
“COMPLIANT, SILENT AND MOSTLY FEMALE” – FEMINIST BLOGGER NOTES SIMILARITIES A blogger for a feminist website has suggested that interns are the new housewives, highlighting the parallels between “the precarious nature of their careers”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 3, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Wages
DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEES SET TO TURN ON EMPLOYERS AS WORKLOADS RISE WHILE WAGES FALL Graduates lucky enough to be in work can expect 2013 to be a “hard year of slog” which will result in a “simmering distrust of bosses”, according to a new report...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 2, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
CAN YOU AFFORD TO GET TO WORK? Low-paid workers – including graduates at the start of their careers – will be disproportionally impacted by large increases to train ticket prices introduced today, experts have warned. The average season ticket will...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 23, 2012 | Careers advice, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
FESTIVE SALES JUMP FOR ‘HOW TO GET A GRADUATE JOB IN A RECESSION’ – HAVE YOU GOT YOUR COPY YET? Sales of How to Get a Graduate Job in a Recession – the book by this website’s founder Tanya de Grunwald – have jumped just before...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 21, 2012 | graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Housing, Unpaid internships, Wages
NINE IN TEN CAN’T AFFORD PRESENTS OR TRAVEL TO CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS Christmas is looking bleak for unemployed young people, according to new figures, for which over 400 NEETS (16-24s not in employment, education or training – including graduates) were...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 19, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
DEPUTY PM FEARS “UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES” INCLUDING “BLACK MARKET” FOR BEST OPPORTUNITIES *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* *COMMENTS NOW OPEN! (OOPS – SORRY THEY WERE CLOSED BEFORE!)* Nick Clegg’s office has told Graduate Fog that the he...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 18, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUT WAS IT REALLY AN “ISOLATED INCIDENT” AS THEY CLAIM? Harrods has become the latest big brand to award back-pay to a former intern as part of our Justice for Interns campaign. The £1,800 payment means Graduate Fog and Intern Aware have now won more than...
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