by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 14, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
TWO-WEEK UNPAID PLACEMENT AT DISCOUNT STORE MAY HAVE BEEN ILLEGAL A graduate is suing the government over an unpaid two-week work placement at Poundland which she was told to complete by her local job centre – or face losing her Jobseeker’s Allowance...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 12, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
100 COMPANIES SIGN DEPUTY PM’s NEW PLEDGE ON FAIR ACCESS – BUT WHERE IS THE PROMISE TO END UNPAID INTERNSHIPS? Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday launched a new campaign to open up recruitment at some of Britain’s biggest companies to young...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 11, 2012 | graduate debt, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
UNIVERSITY DEBT AND LOW WAGES TAKING THEIR TOLL, EXPERTS WARN Are you worried about your finances? A new report has revealed the shocking reality faced by many graduates struggling with debt. Of the 44,000 people granted fast-track insolvency since so-called...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 5, 2012 | Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
ER, NOT TO US THEY’RE NOT A Conservative MP has angered graduates keen to build careers in politics by declaring that internships within parliament are a “non-story.” The row erupted when he was challenged for advertising a six-month unpaid...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 30, 2011 | Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships
IS YOUR FAVOURITE GRADUATE FOG STORY ON THE LIST? We want to say a big thank you to everybody who has supported Graduate Fog this year – so THANK YOU! We love writing these stories – and seeing your favourites whizzing around the Internet makes us happy...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 22, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Wages
A THIRD OF EMPLOYED GRADUATES “FRUSTRATED” BY MENIAL TASKS Concerns have been raised that firms which employ graduates are not making the most of their potential — as over a third of graduates say they were not given enough responsibility in their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 20, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
VALUE OF A GOOD REFERENCE TUMBLES, AS REFEREES ADMIT THEY’RE TO SCARED TO BE HONEST Graduates who have worked hard to get good references from their university tutors and employers may have wasted their time, it has been suggested. Worse still, candidates from...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 15, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
AND CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL INTERNSHIPS THREATENS SMALL LABELS, SHE COMPLAINS A fashion designer has angered graduates by appearing to suggest that fashion interns should work for the “love,” not money. She claimed it was difficult for the fashion industry to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 14, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
LABEL”REVIEWS AND IMPROVES” POLICY FOLLOWING PRESSURE BY CAMPAIGNERS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* Christmas has come early for fashion interns as the brand Stella McCartney — whose unpaid internship programme has been consistently criticised by...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 13, 2011 | Business, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Retail, Wages
400 APPLICATIONS – AND ONLY FOUR REPLIES A young jobseeker has described the 11 and a half months he has spent looking for work as “hell.” During that time, he says he applied for over 400 jobs but received only four replies – and got one...
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