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 | Jul 5, 2012 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
“WORST EXAMPLE” OF ARTS INDUSTRY EXPLOITATION IS FINALLY SHUT DOWN London’s Old Vic theatre has announced it will suspend its main unpaid intern programme from September, following a lengthy campaign by the arts union BECTU and Arts Council England...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 25, 2012 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
*AN EXCLUSIVE REPORT BY GRADUATE FOG* The three leading candidates in the race to become the new Mayor of London on 3rd May claim to view youth unemployment as a priority — but how many have been relying on unpaid interns to promote their campaign for office in...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 4, 2012 | Careers advice, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
SHOCK AS UNPAID, THREE-MONTH PLACEMENT SCOOPS PRESTIGIOUS ‘BEST INTERNSHIP’ PRIZE An internship lasting 12 weeks, involving real work and paying only travel and lunch expenses has been awarded the prestigious “Graduate Internship of the Year”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 15, 2012 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
THIRD SECTOR’S TREATMENT OF INTERNS IS FAR FROM CHARITABLE, SHE SAYS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The legal loophole which currently allows charities to use unpaid interns must be closed, says the Labour MP Hazel Blears, who promised to push for a change in the law...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 11, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
THEIR SCIENCE ADVISERS PAY THEIR INTERNS JUST £100 A WEEK EXPENSES **GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!** A recruiter in charge of hiring unpaid interns at the Royal Society — the UK science academy which advises the United Nations and the European Commission — has...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 4, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
YEAH, TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, SAYS GRADUATE FOG An American website which auctions unpaid internships for thousands of dollars – and plans to expand to the UK – has refused to answer Graduate Fog’s questions about how its business model fits with the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 6, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
CHARITY INSISTS ITS ‘VOLUNTARY INTERNSHIPS’ ARE OPEN TO ALL — BUT CAN’T PROVIDE STATS TO BACK THIS UP Oxfam has told Graduate Fog that it has no intention of reviewing its policy on using unpaid interns — and insisted that its...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 27, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
WANT TO ‘VOLUNTEER’ FULL-TIME UNTIL MAY 2012? A private company claiming to campaign for social justice has angered young workers by advertising for an unpaid intern. The successful applicant will work until May 2012 for no salary. The Centre for Social...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 24, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
WAIT – DIDN’T HE LIKE INVENT THE NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE LAW? Tony Blair – whose own government introduced the National Minimum Wage in 1998 – is at the centre of a new row about the use of unpaid interns within charities and non-profit...
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