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 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...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 20, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Retail, Wages
RAW DEAL FOR GRADUATES DOING SHOP WORK AND WAITING TABLES Thousands of graduates are complaining they are being ripped off by so-called ‘zero-hours’ contracts, where employers expect them to be available for shifts – but have no obligation to give...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 3, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
THE ECONOMIST INSULTS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GRADUATES The Economist has published an article which insults tens of thousands of graduates by insisting most interns have “only a vague notion of what work involves”. It also appears to be a direct endorsement...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 1, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
SITE IS “TOO CASUAL” FOR PROFESSIONAL INTERACTION, SAY YOUNG JOBSEEKERS Job-hunting graduates have sent a clear message to big-name employers that they don’t think Facebook is an appropriate forum for applicants and recruiters to interact. Instead,...
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