by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 25, 2012 | graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
IS YOUR LOW-PAID JOB SHRINKING YOUR PARENTS’ PENSION POT? The average parents of today’s young adults are shelling out £15,490 per ‘child’, as their offspring continue to need financial help well into their twenties. One in three parents admits...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 20, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
EMPLOYMENT MINISTER CLAIMS SCHEME’S CRITICS ‘JUST DON’T GET IT’ Chris Grayling, the employment minister who came under fire earlier this year for the Workfare scheme which saw thousands of young jobseekers forced to work in supermarkets for no...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 11, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, Politicians, Retail, Wages
STRUGGLING UNDER-25s MUST LIVE WITH MUM AND DAD, SAYS NEW GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL Graduates who are unemployed – or earning wages so low they are unable to afford private sector rents – are to be stripped of their housing benefit, if new proposals are...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 4, 2012 | Careers advice, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
SHOCK AS UNPAID, THREE-MONTH PLACEMENT SCOOPS PRESTIGIOUS ‘BEST INTERNSHIP’ PRIZE An internship lasting 12 weeks, involving real work and paying only travel and lunch expenses has been awarded the prestigious “Graduate Internship of the Year”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 29, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Wages
NEW GRADUATES FACE FIFTY YEARS OF WORK AHEAD Students graduating this summer can expect to work until they’re at least 71 before receiving a state pension – three years longer than under current plans – following a decision to link retirement ages to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 28, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUCKINGHAM PALACE GRADUATE HR ROLE OFFERS JUST £12,500 PER YEAR, WELL BELOW THE LONDON LIVING WAGE An advert has been posted for a full-time, six-month graduate HR internship at Buckingham Palace, paying just £6.41 an hour, despite it requiring candidates to have...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 22, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Wages
STARTING SALARIES PLUMMET FROM £60,000 AS UNI LEAVERS GET DESPERATE A City columnist has noted that starting salaries at some of the world’s biggest banks – which once offered £35,000 as standard and £60,000 for the brightest sparks – have dropped to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 13, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, Politicians, Wages
HOUSING CRISIS BITES AS EVEN THOSE WITH JOBS STRUGGLE TO MAKE ENDS MEET An employed physiology graduate has revealed that he been sleeping rough for 12 months as it is his only hope of ever being able to afford a deposit on a house, as rent in his area is so high he...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 6, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Retail, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
A THIRD OF GRADUATES ARE DOING LOW-SKILLED JOBS, NEW RESEARCH REVEALS The number of recent graduates employed in low-skilled jobs — including retail assistants, cleaners, hotel porters and machine operatives — has hit a ten-year high, according to new...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 23, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
IN BOTH GROUPS, ONE IN FOUR IS LOOKING FOR WORK A 21-year-old graduate now has the same change of being out of work as a 16-year-old school leaver with one GCSE, according to new stats released today. While the figures are unlikely to cheer job-seeking graduates, we...
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