Graduates on benefits – strivers or skivers?

Graduates on benefits – strivers or skivers?

WHY ARE EDUCATED YOUNG PEOPLE RECEIVING WELFARE PAYMENTS? Recently graduated – and claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, housing benefit or any other form of welfare ‘hand-out’? Do you consider yourself a striver – or a skiver? As the...
“Don’t live in a big city? Good luck getting a graduate job”

“Don’t live in a big city? Good luck getting a graduate job”

YOUNG, RURAL JOBSEEKERS HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN, SAYS ONE GRADUATE It’s tough finding a proper, paid graduate job at the moment, wherever you live. But when home is a long way from the nearest big city and you don’t have a car, rural graduates say it’s...
Three quarters of young people can’t afford to intern unpaid

Three quarters of young people can’t afford to intern unpaid

EXCLUDED OUTNUMBER THE EXPLOITED THREE TO ONE, NEW SURVEY FINDS It’s official – the number of young people who can’t afford to intern unpaid in London is far greater than the number who can. A must-read new survey – by the Unions21 Fair Work...
Costa swamped by 1,701 CVs… for just EIGHT jobs

Costa swamped by 1,701 CVs… for just EIGHT jobs

APPLICANTS INCLUDE GRADUATES, SAYS COFFEE CHAIN A new branch of Costa has been flooded with 1,701 CVs – for just eight shop-based jobs. In a startling reminder of the tough competition for jobs in 2013, the coffee chain revealed that applicants included numerous...
Internships now “as important as a first class degree” says expert

Internships now “as important as a first class degree” says expert

GOOD GRADES ARE WORTHLESS WITHOUT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE, SAY UK’S BIG GRADUATE RECRUITERS Graduates who worked hard on their studies but spent their summers doing bar work or a shop job will miss out on the best graduate jobs in 2013, analysts have said. In an...