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Exit fees Ep15: Social Mobility Foundation urged to ban FDM from ‘best employers’ list for 2022

Exit fees Ep15: Social Mobility Foundation urged to ban FDM from ‘best employers’ list for 2022

by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 9, 2022 | diversity, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility, Uncategorized

SMF MUST CORRECT LAST YEAR’S ‘TERRIBLE MISTAKE’  The Social Mobility Foundation has been urged to ban FDM Group and Sparta Global from their prestigious Employer Index for 2022. The request follows outcry over the firms’ inclusion in the 2021...
Exit fees Ep14: FDM share price plummets as clients abandon them

Exit fees Ep14: FDM share price plummets as clients abandon them

by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 3, 2022 | diversity, exit fees, social mobility, Uncategorized

‘FIRM FIGHTING MULTIPLE FIRES’ AS SHARE PRICE DIVES 30% SINCE JANUARY 2022 Is FDM Group in financial trouble? News reaches Graduate Fog that the IT outsourcing giant – at one point worth £1bn – is suffering serious operational problems which...
Exit fees Ep13: There are SIXTY Kubrick graduates trapped at AstraZeneca?!

Exit fees Ep13: There are SIXTY Kubrick graduates trapped at AstraZeneca?!

by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 28, 2022 | diversity, exit fees, Graduate schemes, Mental health, social mobility

PHARMA GIANT DUCKS QUESTIONS ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL SUPPLIER Pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca has blanked our questions about its connections with Kubrick Group, the IT outsourcing firm that charges graduates up to £19,800 if they leave in less than two years. Multiple...
Exit fees Ep12 / Christie’s: Auction house dumps Sparta Global over exit fees

Exit fees Ep12 / Christie’s: Auction house dumps Sparta Global over exit fees

by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 24, 2022 | diversity, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility

WE WANT OUR LOGO REMOVED FROM THEIR WEBSITE, ADDS SPOKESPERSON Well, isn’t life funny? One of the world’s oldest auction houses has stepped up as a pioneer in the battle to end the nightmare of graduate exit fees. When we saw the Christie’s logo on...
Exit fees/ Ep11: Ouch! DWP grilled over FDM graduates ‘trapped’ in government department

Exit fees/ Ep11: Ouch! DWP grilled over FDM graduates ‘trapped’ in government department

by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 22, 2022 | diversity, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility

DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS SPOKESPERSON SQUIRMS UNDER SPOTLIGHT * Update, 15 May 2022: We’re in the Sunday Times! Graduates hit by stinging ‘exit fees’ from recruiters (Don’t subscribe? Click here) * The Department for Work and Pensions has refused to...
Exit fees / Ep:10 Virgin Media O2: We’ll speak to FDM about exit fees

Exit fees / Ep:10 Virgin Media O2: We’ll speak to FDM about exit fees

by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 21, 2022 | diversity, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility

AND MOBILE PHONE NETWORK THREE SAYS RELATIONSHIP WITH SPARTA GLOBAL HAS ‘ENDED’ Are clients of the big ‘exit fees’ firms about to abandon them? Virgin Media O2 and Three have just announced they are moving to distance themselves from FDM Group...
Exit fees campaign/ Ep9: ‘I want my £14k back’ says Kubrick graduate who paid up to get out

Exit fees campaign/ Ep9: ‘I want my £14k back’ says Kubrick graduate who paid up to get out

by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 15, 2021 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, exit fees, Graduate schemes, Money, social mobility

‘I FELT RUSHED WHEN I SIGNED THE CONTRACT, AND WAS DEPRESSED BY THE TIME I LEFT’ A graduate who paid £14,520 in ‘exit fees’ in order to escape a job he realised was a mistake has written to his former employer asking for his money back. He...
Exit fees campaign / Ep8: ‘I’m at HSBC’ says graduate behind exit fees petition

Exit fees campaign / Ep8: ‘I’m at HSBC’ says graduate behind exit fees petition

by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 8, 2021 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility

‘OVER 100 OF US ARE HERE – AND WE’RE NOT FREE TO LEAVE’ The graduate who started a petition against ‘exit fees’ that has attracted more than 6,000 signatures is currently ‘trapped’ on a placement at HSBC that he is...
Exit fees campaign / Ep7: Graduates fight back! Nearly 6,000 sign petition against exit fees

Exit fees campaign / Ep7: Graduates fight back! Nearly 6,000 sign petition against exit fees

by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 30, 2021 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, exit fees, Graduate Fog, Money, social mobility

ANONYMOUS AUTHOR IS FDM GRAD NOW WORKING AT ‘ONE OF THE UK’S BIGGEST BANKS’ A petition against ‘exit fees’ – started by an anonymous graduate currently trapped on FDM Group’s graduate programme, who says he can’t leave...
Exit fees campaign / Ep3: Thank you, Severn Trent!

Exit fees campaign / Ep3: Thank you, Severn Trent!

by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 9, 2021 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, exit fees, Good + Fair Employers Club, Graduate Fog, social mobility

‘GRADUATES SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PAY TO LEAVE A ROLE THEY’RE UNHAPPY IN’ SAYS WATER COMPANY Our campaign to #StopExitFeesByXmas is working – we have our first supporter! Last week, we blew open the scandal of the firms that have been charging...
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