by Tanya de Grunwald | May 29, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting
A QUARTER OF GRADUATES WOULD BE ‘TOO EMBARRASSED’ TO TELL FRIENDS IF THEY WENT TO WORK FOR A BANK The banking industry’s reputation is damaging its ability to recruit graduates, the boss of a major UK bank has said. The banking sector must...
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 15, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
AND THOSE WHO DO FIND WORK EARN 9% LESS THAN THEIR WHITE FRIENDS Black graduates are three times more likely to be unemployed than white graduates six months of finishing university, it has emerged. The worrying statistic was highlighted during this week’s BBC...
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 | May 7, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
NOW JUST 3% OF JUNIOR JOURNALISTS HAVE WORKING CLASS PARENTS The majority of young people entering journalism today are from middle class ‘professional’ families, in what is becoming an increasingly socially exclusive career, a new survey has found....
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 24, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
VICTORY FOR INTERNS AS FIRST RECRUITMENT SITE PLEDGES TO REMOVE ANY ADVERTS FOR EXPLOITATIVE ROLES *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* **Like this? Please Share and RT!** Monster.co.uk has become the first major UK recruitment website to pledge publicly that it will not support...
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 17, 2013 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED SINCE YOU LEFT UNI? For many graduates, the period straight after leaving university can be pretty tough – but by now you’ve probably learned a lot more than you realise (yes, really!). Do you agree that you’re wiser than you...
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 | Apr 10, 2013 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Universities, Wages
ONE IN FOUR WHO TAKE NON-GRADUATE JOBS ARE STILL THERE THREE AND A HALF YEARS LATER Graduates who take ‘stop-gap’ jobs after finishing university because they can’t find a graduate role are being urged to move on quickly. New research shows that one...
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