by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 16, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
NEW DISASTER CONFIRMS PROGRAMME IS “AN ALMIGHTY MESS” The Labour party has attacked the Coalition’s flagship welfare-to-work programme, calling it “an almighty mess”. The accusation came after it emerged that over a million fewer people...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 11, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Parents and family
(AND WHEN YOU SHOULD INVITE THEM TO BUTT IN) **GUEST BLOG POST BY ANNE WILSON, ONE-TO-ONE GRADUATE CAREERS ADVISER FOR GRADUATES AT GRADUATEJOBMENTOR.CO.UK** “They nag constantly. I know they’re worried, but they don’t seem to realise how hard it...
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 | Jul 4, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEW SURVEY SHOCKS VAST MAJORITY OF LOW-EARNING GRADUATES A new survey has shown that the average graduate salary is now £29,000 – leading Graduate Fog to ask where on earth the researchers found these high-rolling young people they polled. Most of the graduates...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 28, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
WHOSE SIDE IS PROSPECTS ON? Graduate Prospects – supposedly the “official” graduate careers website, recommended as the go-to resource for students and graduates by every university in the UK – is promoting unpaid internships to its users,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 25, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
EVEN THE BBC FAVOURS WEALTHIER APPLICANTS, SAYS ASPIRING JOURNALIST BEN Last month’s social mobility report found that journalism is now one of the most “socially exclusive” professions around — accessible only to those who can afford to work...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 19, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
NEW ‘JOB-HOPPING’ GENERATION OF GRADUATES IS EMERGING – HOW MANY JOBS HAVE YOU HAD SINCE GRADUATION? The average graduate stays in their first job after university for just a year and a half, new research has revealed. Of the 42% who left their job...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 14, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
PROGRAMME CALLED “A COMPLETE POLICY DISASTER” – BUT GOVERNMENT EXPANDS IT ANYWAY The government’s controversial ‘workfare’ programme – where jobseekers are forced to work for free in the hope of gaining paid jobs later –...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 8, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
TOO MANY LAW GRADUATES AND TOO FEW PUPILLAGES MEANS MANY WILL NOT FIND JOBS A leading barrister has accused law schools of duping thousands of young people into signing up for law degrees, knowing that many of them have little hope of finding a job at the end of it....
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 7, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
FIRST PHILIP GREEN, NOW SIMON COWELL – ANOTHER TYCOON FORCED TO PAY HIS INTERNS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* Last week it was Sir Philip Green – this week Simon Cowell has become the latest tycoon forced to pay his young workers. Between four and 10 interns...
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