by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 14, 2015 | Business, Careers advice, CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate schemes, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Postgraduate study, professional development, Recession and economy, student loan, Tuition fees, Universities
CRAZY MISMATCH LEAVES “PEOPLE WITHOUT JOBS – AND JOBS WITHOUT PEOPLE” Can’t find a decent graduate job that uses your degree properly? It’s not your fault. A world-renowned expert has claimed that many of today’s job-hunting and...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 18, 2015 | Applications, average graduate salary, Business, Careers advice, CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate schemes, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Recession and economy, student loan, Wages
BIG EMPLOYERS REPORT HUNDREDS OF SPARE PLACES… WHILE THOUSANDS OF GRADUATES ARE UNDER-EMPLOYED IN SHOPS AND CALL CENTRES Two thirds of the UK’s biggest graduate employers say they are struggling to fill their vacancies for 2015 – because the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 9, 2015 | Applications, average graduate salary, Careers advice, Confidence and self-esteem, Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, London, Media and journalism, Money, professional development, Recession and economy, social mobility, Unpaid internships, Wages
TIRED OF WORKING FOR FREE? GET TOUGH – OR GET OUT OF THERE Working for free – and running out of cash, fast? You’re not alone. In a graduate job market as tough as today’s, thousands of graduates are finding themselves working for free...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 29, 2015 | Applications, Careers advice, CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, job hunting, professional development
DON’T PANIC, JUST REACH OUT — EVEN AT 2am A CV-writing service is running a 24-hour online helpline to support graduates having a late-night panic about their job applications. Purple CV started the 24 hour CV advice web chat service in response to demand...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 9, 2015 | Applications, average graduate salary, Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, zero hours contracts
GRADUATE FOG IS FIVE TODAY! Happy birthday to us… Happy birthday to us… Happy birthday Graduate Fo-og… Happy birthday to us! That’s right – today we are celebrating this website’s FIFTH birthday! And we want to say a big thank you...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 4, 2015 | Applications, Careers advice, Confidence and self-esteem, CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, PR and marketing, professional development
WHY THE OGILVY FELLOWSHIP SCHEME WANTS TO SEE HOW YOU LOOK ON CAMERA Employers say that the written word can only tell them so much about what a candidate is really like — so a growing number of firms are experimenting with video CVs and applications as a...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 13, 2015 | Applications, Business, Careers advice, CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Money, Politicians, professional development, social mobility, Wages
JAN MORTIER LASHES OUT FOLLOWING OBSERVER STORY The boss of a London thinktank which has been charging former ‘junior associates’ £300 for a reference has defended his actions – and suggested that many UK graduates are “unemployable”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 18, 2014 | average graduate salary, Benefits and welfare, Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Money, professional development, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, Wages, zero hours contracts
SHOW US THE MONEY, SAY CASH-STRAPPED YOUNG WORKERS Bosses who hire graduates, take note: what your young staff really want isn’t a Christmas party or more time off. Four in ten say what they really want is… a pay rise. A festive survey of 500 students...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 9, 2014 | Applications, average graduate salary, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Job boards, job hunting, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, Wages
* JOB BOARD MONSTER GIVES AWAY 150 COPIES TO GRADUATES * Job board Monster is giving away 150 copies of How to Get a Graduate Job in a Recession, as an early Christmas present to the UK’s job-hunting graduates. To win your book (plus a Monster goody bag),...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 4, 2014 | Applications, average graduate salary, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Job boards, job hunting, Money, PR and marketing, professional development, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, Wages
FASHION BRAND OFFERS HALF THE GOING RATE FOR POSITION DESCRIBED * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE * A minimum wage ‘reception internship’ advertised by a luxury fashion brand should have paid £22-28,000, according to recruitment experts. Suspicions are growing that...
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