by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 1, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEW EVIDENCE FORCES CHAIN TO BREAK THEIR SILENCE OVER POLICY ON INTERNSHIPS River Island has been forced to respond to our questions about their policy on internships after a former intern posted a diary of an internship with the retailer on a blog — and...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 31, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BOSSES EARN YOUR MONTHLY WAGE IN JUST ONE HOUR! New research has revealed that the bosses of many top companies earn more in an HOUR than many of their young employees earn in a MONTH. The average executive earns £1,406 per hour – while the average chief...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 27, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Wages
“SKILLS SHORTAGE” IS A MYTH – EMPLOYERS SHOULD PAY MORE, TRAIN MORE AND EXPECT LESS A management expert has blasted recruiters for demanding too much of young candidates – and suggested that companies invest more in training and developing...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 26, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships
POT, KETTLE, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER? Nick Clegg has lectured the PR industry about its exploitation of unpaid interns — yet Graduate Fog can exclusively reveal that his own party refuses to change its own behaviour and pay its own young staff a proper wage for...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 25, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
WHY WON’T THEY GIVE US A STRAIGHT ANSWER ABOUT THEIR POLICY ON INTERNSHIPS? *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The biggest challenge we have encountered with our Pay Your Interns campaign is getting big brand’s press offices to respond to our questions about their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
ALAN SUGAR PROMISES HE DOES NOT USE UNPAID INTERNS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* Lord Sugar has become the first high-profile business person to back our Pay Your Interns campaign by stating publicly that he does NOT use unpaid interns within any of his companies. His...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 20, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
CULTURE SECRETARY JEREMY HUNT BRAZENLY TOUTS MULTIPLE ROLES The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt is advertising for multiple “constituency interns”, paying travel expenses only. The roles are targeted at recent graduates and involve “assisting the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 19, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
EVEN TOP UNIVERSITIES OFFER POOR ADVICE, SAY JOBLESS GRADUATES A senior figure in the world of university career advice has admitted that the industry must do more to help graduates into work, as record youth unemployment statistics were announced last week....
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 18, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
LABEL REFUSES TO COMMENT – AND LATER REMOVES OFFENDING ADVERT *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The fashion brand Vivienne Westwood has advertised a full-time, three-month unpaid internship on their company website, refused to answer our questions about how they feel...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 17, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
MEET THE ‘STOCKHOLM SYNDROME’ INTERNS: HAPPY TO WORK FULL-TIME FOR FREE Seven former interns from the recruitment company Reed have told Graduate Fog they were definitely NOT exploited during their months working there full-time, earning around £90 a week....
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