by Tanya de Grunwald | May 19, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
TWO-THIRDS OF GRADUATES ARE IN NON-GRADUATE JOBS A Blackburn-based butcher has said he was “flabbergasted” when he received 235 applications for an apprentice position with his company – and that many were from graduates desperate for work. Offering...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 17, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
WHEN WILL EMPLOYERS STOP BASHING YOUNG WORKERS – AND START INVESTING IN TRAINING AGAIN? The Confederation of British Industry has declared that applicants for graduate jobs are failing to meet business’ high expectations. Susan Anderson, CBI director for...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 16, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
LANDMARK VICTORY SEES JOURNALISM INTERN AWARDED OVER £2,000 IN PAY AND DAMAGES A journalism intern has scored a victory for interns everywhere by successfully suing her publishing company employer for whom she interned unpaid for several weeks. Keri Hudson, 21, proved...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 28, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
ONE IN FIVE COMPANIES ADMITS USING YOU FOR CHEAP LABOUR New figures published today show that a fifth of UK businesses admit to knowingly exploiting their interns, who they see as an opportunity to gain free labour. The stats – from a new YouGov report carried...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 24, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
HOW NICE TO KNOW OUR PRIME MINISTER IS SLEEPING WELL AT NIGHT, WHILE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE ARE EXPLOITED / EXCLUDED BY TIGHT-FISTED EMPLOYERS – AND HIS GOVERNMENT DOES NOTHING AT ALL TO SUPPORT THEM The Prime Minster has told the Daily Telegraph...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 19, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
GRADUATE FOG IS ASKED TO ADVERTISE VACANCY PAYING JUST £12,300 **Click here to find out how to find a graduate job in a recession** Are unpaid internships dragging down graduate starting salaries? Are tight-fisted employers using the over-supply of graduates as an...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 12, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
CHARITY’S ASTOUNDING ARROGANCE STUNS GRADUATE FOG In the last few months, Graduate Fog has seen some shocking displays of arrogance among those organisations which continue to expect young people to work for nothing, in the form of unpaid internships. But folks,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 6, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Politicians, Unpaid internships
BEING AN UNPAID INTERN IS NOT A CRIME, SAYS GRADUATE FOG Nick Clegg has been ridiculed after it emerged that he himself had benefited from doing an unpaid internship early on in his career. The revelation came on the day that he was launching new measures to tackle...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 29, 2011 | Careers advice, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
POOR ADVICE IS OFFERED AT THE WRONG TIME AND PLACE, SAYS EXPERT **This is a guest post by Anne Wilson, careers coach and founder of Graduate Job Mentor** How prepared will this year’s 350,000 new graduates be for the real world? Do they know what it takes to get...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 24, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
OSBORNE’S PLANS SOLVE NOTHING – AND COULD MAKE THINGS WORSE, SAYS GRADUATE FOG The Chancellor George Osborne has shown himself to be woefully out-of-touch with the reality of life for unemployed graduates. In the new Budget announced yesterday, he...
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