by Tanya de Grunwald | May 17, 2013 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
MONSTER SNAPS UP 500 COPIES OF OUR BOOK FOR GIVEAWAY PROMOTION **PRIZE DRAW AT 11.59pm ON 7 JUNE 2013** Monster.co.uk is giving away 500 copies of our book “How to get a graduate job in a recession”, as part of a pre-graduation giveaway. It even has a...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 14, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
POORER GRADUATES CAN NOW REPORT ADVERTS FOR UNPAID INTERNSHIPS AS GOVERNMENT FINALLY VOWS TO BACK YOUNG WORKERS Graduates who spot adverts for unpaid internships which appear to involve real work but pay less than the minimum wage can now report them to officials,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 22, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Retail, Uncategorized, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
BRIGHT AND ARTICULATE? WANT TO SHARE YOUR STORY? The BBC is looking for job-seeking graduates to take part in a new documentary about the graduate jobs crisis. The producers have assured Graduate Fog that the programme – which will air on BBC3 – will not...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 12, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
BIG BRANDS PANIC, FEARING INVESTIGATION, FINES AND PUBLIC SHAME Big brands that have been brazenly advertising unpaid internships – and the big job boards that carry these adverts – were feeling the heat today as a list of 100 big companies who have been...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 1, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
UNPAID ROLE APPEARED IN EMAIL ALERT FROM THIRD-PARTY JOB BOARD IN JANUARY *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* A graduate has told Graduate Fog that she saw the Ritz’s advert for an unpaid HR intern back in January, advertised through a third-party job board called...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 28, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
POSITION WAS NEVER RECRUITED FOR, INSISTS LUXURY HOTEL The Ritz London has claimed that an advert for an unpaid HR intern which appeared on its own website was “erroneously posted in draft format in our online recruitment system and is not a role that was...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 27, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
FOUR-DAYS-A-WEEK PLACEMENT AT LUXURY HOTEL PAYS TRAVEL EXPENSES ONLY One of the world’s most exclusive luxury hotels is recruiting for a unpaid intern – offering only travel expenses and meals instead of wages. An advert has appeared on The Ritz...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 13, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
GRADUATE FOG CHALLENGES THE PUBLISHER WHO DEMANDS EVERYTHING – AND PAYS NOTHING Want to work days, nights and weekends – for no wage at all? Prepared to abandon family commitments and holidays to work for free? This – and more – is what one...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 5, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
SMALL CHANGE TO LAW WILL HAVE A BIG IMPACT, SAYS LABOUR MP HAZEL BLEARS Advertising unpaid internships could become illegal from next year, under proposals being introduced into parliament today. Although unpaid internships themselves are already illegal, advertising...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 1, 2012 | Business, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
PRESSURE FROM GRADUATE FOG LEADS FORMER PM TO CHANGE HIS POLICY ON PAYING YOUNG STAFF From today Tony Blair will pay all interns working in his profit-making businesses where they are doing placements of three months or more, his office has announced. The statement...
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