by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 27, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
PUNY PAY PACKETS MEAN WORKERS ARE NOT SPENDING, SAYS NEWSPAPER EDITOR Employers who pay their graduates low wages – or even no wages at all – are helping to keep the UK in recession, an expert has said. Writing in yesterday’s City AM, the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 25, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
EMPLOYERS BASH YOUNG JOBSEEKERS – BUT SURELY SCHOOLS ARE TO BLAME? The scrapping of GCSEs has re-ignited the debate about standards of literacy and numeracy among today’s young people entering the workforce. But are the criticisms fair? And if standards...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 20, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
“INSULTING” REMARK FROM DAMIAN COLLINS A Conservative politician has said that young people should busk to raise the travel money they need to get to work. Damian Collins — who is the MP for Folkstone — made the point during on last...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 19, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Wages
UNILEVER HUNTS FRESHERS FOR LANDMARK NEW SCHEME The UK’s brightest young people must start competing for their position in the job market earlier than ever, it seems. Consumer goods giant and major graduate employer Unilever has announced a landmark new...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 14, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Parents and family, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
IS ANYBODY EARNING ENOUGH TO PAY THEIR OWN RENT? As growing numbers of fashion-focussed graduates tell us they are working for years unpaid (yes, really), Graduate Fog wonders: is anybody earning a decent wage in this industry? Or is the truth that most people working...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 12, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
MILLIONS STRUGGLING TO REPAY “WEIRD” LOAN WILL CREATE “ECONOMIC CRISIS” IN YEARS TO COME The president of the National Union of Students has warned that graduate debt is a ticking “time bomb” that could have a huge impact on the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 6, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Parents and family, Retail, Wages
ONE IN FIVE YOUNG PEOPLE WANTS MORE HOURS THAN THEY CAN GET Young people — including graduates — are among those worst hit by the new wave of ‘underemployment’ sweeping the UK, new figures have shown. This means that while they have managed to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 5, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
SOME GRADUATES’ APPROACHES ARE “APPALLING,” BOSS TELLS GRADUATE FOG You spent hours on your application – and were gutted when you never heard back. What went wrong? Lorraine Emmett, Managing Director of PR company Emmett & Smith Ltd...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 30, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
SHOCKING NEW TRIAL SCHEME WILL SEE GRADUATES MAKE JUST £1.87 AN HOUR Job-seeking graduates living in London are to be forced to work for three months unpaid in order to keep their benefits, the government has announced. That means they will be toiling for less than...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 28, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
WE KNEW IT! MOST GRADUATES EARN UNDER £20,000, NOT NEARLY £30,000 The real average graduate salary is nearly £10,000 a year less than previous figures have suggested, new figures reveal. Despite claims from the Association of Graduate Recruiters earlier this year that...
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