by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 26, 2018 | Applications, Wages, Women
HELP KEEP GRADUATE FOG GOING – TAKE OUR TWO-MINUTE SURVEY NOW If a firm has a big, bad gender pay gap, how likely are you to apply to their graduate scheme? In a job interview, would you consider asking about a company’s sexual harassment policy? Are...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 22, 2018 | Business, Employment rights, Graduate schemes, Money, resigning and references
ASTONISHING EMAIL TO GRADS THANKS THEM FOR “DEDICATION AND HARD WORK” BUT INCLUDES NO APOLOGY FOR DISTRESS CAUSED * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE * * OOH! STORY PICKED UP BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES! * Capita have emailed their graduates announcing they have scrapped...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 1, 2018 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate schemes, Law, resigning and references
OUTSOURCING GIANT CAPITA BLASTED FOR CONTRACTS THAT LOCK GRADUATES IN TO JOBS THEY HATE * LOOK! WE’VE BEEN QUOTED IN THE GUARDIAN * Sometimes, a new job just doesn’t work out. But a growing number of graduates are finding themselves locked in to roles with...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 31, 2018 | Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
TOP LABOUR MP UNDER FIRE OVER YEAR-LONG PLACEMENT WHICH SOUNDS LIKE A JOB THAT SHOULD BE PAID * UPDATE 1: The Labour leader’s office has just emailed all Labour MPs to remind them not to hire unpaid interns * * UPDATE 2: This website’s comments picked up...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 24, 2018 | Benefits and welfare, Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Wages, workfare
DISCOUNT STORE ADMITS INVOLVEMENT CEASED IN APRIL – BUT DID THEY JUMP OR WERE THEY PUSHED? * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE * Poundland is no longer acting as a ‘host’ employer on the government’s Work Experience programme, Graduate Fog can exclusively...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 24, 2018 | Charities and volunteering, diversity, Graduate Jobs, Graduate schemes, social mobility, Unpaid internships
HOW TO GRAB YOUR PLACE ON THEIR SCHEME – BY THE PERSON WHO’LL READ YOUR APPLICATION * THE SUMMER SCHEME HAS CLOSED, BUT YOU CAN APPLY FOR THEIR AUTUMN SCHEME IN JULY * Keen to start a career in the charity world, but can’t afford to intern unpaid?...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 11, 2018 | London, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
WHAT TO DO, WEAR AND SAY WHEN WORKING FOR BELOW MINIMUM WAGE AT LUXURY LIFESTYLE BIBLE’S LONDON HQ * EXCLUSIVE TO GRADUATE FOG * You may have read about the intern suing ultra-luxe magazine Monocle for unpaid wages – but you won’t have read the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 19, 2018 | Charities and volunteering, Unpaid internships
FIRST BIG UK CHARITY MAKES HISTORIC MOVE TO PAID ROLES ONLY Cancer Research UK today announced that from June 2018 all its internships will be paid — making it the first big UK charity to abolish unpaid internships, and heralding what is likely to be the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 14, 2018 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, social mobility, Unpaid internships
WHO’S GREAT TO WORK FOR? LOOK FOR THE MEMBER BADGE On Monday 26th March, Graduate Fog starts a new chapter. We’ll still be slagging off bad employers – but we’ll also be praising good ones. Employers who want to help make the world of work...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 1, 2018 | Politicians, social mobility, Unpaid internships
OUR 18 MONTHS OF PESTERING FINALLY PAYS OFF The Department for Education has finally agreed to meet fair internships campaigners to hear our ideas to fix a problem affecting tens of thousands of graduates every year – and it only took us a year and a half of...
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