by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 30, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Unpaid internships, Wages
EXHAUSTED YOUNG WORKERS EARN WELL — BUT DO 18-HOUR DAYS Interns working in London’s financial district have revealed that their hefty pay packet comes at a price — as they are regularly expected to ‘pull all-nighters,’ during which they...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 25, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Wages
FUTURE GRADUATES WILL BE “VERY ANGRY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN INDEED” A respected education expert has warned of a looming graduate “revolution” in the next few years, as hundreds of thousands of graduates discover that their degree is not worth...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 24, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEW DEMANDS FOR EXPERIENCE OVER A DEGREE ARE UNFAIR AND NONSENSICAL, SAYS GRADUATE FOG First, you were told that a degree would lead to a good graduate job. Then, you were told you’d need a degree and several months of experience before you’d be considered...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 23, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
NOW’S YOUR CHANCE! The UK’s army of unpaid interns is today being urged to stand up and be counted in a new survey that could directly impact the government’s policy on this important issue. Uniquely, interns will NOT be required to name their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 22, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
HOW CAN NUMBER-CRUNCHERS MISS NEARLY 130,000 YOUNG WORKERS? Unpaid interns are invisible, according to the statisticians whose job it is to count you. The Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA) has released new figures showing the whereabouts of last...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 17, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
ALMOST ONE IN FIVE YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD CONSIDER SWAPPING SEX FOR CASH Concerns have been raised that record levels of graduate debt could push young people – particularly women – into exploring prostitution as a solution to their money worries. The...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 16, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
CAREERS SERVICES SIDE WITH EMPLOYERS OVER STUDENTS *Graduate Fog exclusive!* Why are university careers services doing so little to fight the problem of unpaid internships? Why do only 10% of graduates know that unpaid internships are illegal? And why are many...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 3, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Wages
BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL STORY CAUSES OUTRAGE AMONG GRADUATES Cash-strapped university graduates should be free to sell their kidneys in order to pay off their student debt, it has been suggested. And no, this isn’t a joke. In an article for the British Medical...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 27, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
IS IT ARROGANCE OR IGNORANCE? Yesterday, a start-up company approached Graduate Fog and suggested that I should pay THEIR intern. Why is it that small, new companies think they can behave however they like – and that the National Minimum Wage laws don’t...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 26, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
BRITAIN’S INTERNS ARE LEADING THE GLOBAL BATTLE FOR YOUNG WORKERS’ RIGHTS, SAYS TOP US EXPERT An international expert in the spread of the unpaid internship culture has told Graduate Fog that he is impressed with the momentum behind the campaign against...
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