by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 29, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting
WARNING: SOME OF THEM ARE PRETTY WEIRD Think your interviewer only cares about your skills, experience and whether you’ll fit in? Think again — that’s just for starters. Dan Hawes, founder of graduate recruitment agency Graduate Recruitment Bureau,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 15, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, Unpaid internships, Wages
£6.19 AN HOUR DOESN’T GO FAR IN 2012, GRADUATES TELL US It’s been dubbed the ‘poverty wage’ because it is so grim to live on – yet new figures show that millions of people in the UK are only earning the national minimum wage. At present,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 1, 2012 | Business, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
PRESSURE FROM GRADUATE FOG LEADS FORMER PM TO CHANGE HIS POLICY ON PAYING YOUNG STAFF From today Tony Blair will pay all interns working in his profit-making businesses where they are doing placements of three months or more, his office has announced. The statement...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 24, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Wages
EMPLOYERS HUNT OVER-QUALIFIED YOUNG WORKERS FOR MENIAL JOBS Highly qualified university graduates are being targeted to fill low-skilled menial jobs, in a dark new trend employment experts are calling ‘credentialism’. This reflects our growing suspicion...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 23, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
AND UNIS MUST STOP PROMOTING UNPAID INTERNSHIPS, WARNS NEW REPORT Snobbish employers who only recruit graduates from elite universities – ignoring candidates from less prestigious institutions with identical grades – have been slammed in a new report...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 18, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
MAGAZINE PUBLISHER, AUCTION HOUSE AND TECH GIANT PAY OUT — BUT WE CAN’T TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE **GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE** Three big companies have written cheques totalling nearly £3,000 to a group of interns who challenged them for failing to pay the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 17, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
BEGGARS CAN’T BE CHOOSERS — CAN THEY? **GUEST POST BY ANNE WILSON, ONE-TO-ONE CAREERS ADVISER FOR GRADUATES AT GRADUATEJOBMENTOR.CO.UK** I’m inspired when I meet graduates with strong principles. Many of the graduates I work with tell me that...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 16, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
“WORRYING” TREND AS CARELESS GRADUATES MISS OUT ON JOBS Graduates are missing out on jobs because they are failing to adjust their privacy settings on Facebook, new research has found. A new survey by Hays recruitment agency found that only just over half...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 10, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
A REWARD FOR GRAFTERS – OR A PENALTY FOR THE POOR? Graduates who intern for three months after university add an average of £1,500 to their starting salary when they eventually begin their first paid job, new research shows. As most internships are now unpaid...
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...
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