by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 22, 2021 | Employment rights, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Money, Uncategorized, Wages
BUT WHY ARE 21- AND 22-YEAR-OLDS STILL MAKING LESS? From 1 April 2021, employees aged 23 and 24 will jump from earning £7.70 an hour to £8.91 an hour – as the highest age bracket for workers earning the National Minimum Wage is lowered from aged 25 and above to...
by laura1234 | Feb 17, 2021 | Covid-19 Coronavirus, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Recession and economy, Uncategorized
SMART YOUNG JOB SEEKERS HELP THEMSELVES TO OUR FREE E-BOOK Thousands of the UK’s smartest job hunting graduates are helping themselves to the free e-book written by this website’s founder Tanya de Grunwald, as word spreads about the quality and value of...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 27, 2020 | Benefits and welfare, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Housing, job hunting, Recession and economy, workfare
THE PROS AND CONS OF SIGNING ON AFTER GRADUATION Are you struggling to find work, running out of cash – and considering signing on for Jobseeker’s Allowance? Is the money you get worth the hassle of applying? And can you do internships (either paid or...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 19, 2020 | Careers advice, Covid-19 Coronavirus, Graduate unemployment
MUST-READ GRADUATE JOB HUNT BIBLE PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2020 * Want to know when the book is out? Scroll down to sign up to be notified! * * Already mentioned in the Guardian! * Without a doubt, 2020 is a tough year to be graduating from university. The Covid-19 (or...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 10, 2020 | Benefits and welfare, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Kickstarter Scheme, Wages
AND HOW WILL IT LOOK ON YOUR CV? WE ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS The Chancellor Rishi Sunak is a man with a plan — to “protect, support and create jobs” in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. But it won’t be easy. The lockdown has already hit the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 28, 2020 | diversity, Good + Fair Employers Club, Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, social mobility, Unpaid internships
OUR BEST BITS FROM THE LAST 10 YEARS — AND OUR TAKE ON WHAT’S COMING NEXT By Tanya de Grunwald, founder of Graduate Fog and director of the Good + Fair Employers Club (below) When I founded Graduate Fog in April 2010, I feared there wouldn’t be...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 30, 2018 | Dismissal, Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, Graduate unemployment, Money, zero hours contracts
“YOU’RE ONE FALL FROM THE DOLE” HE WARNS OTHER GIG ECONOMY WORKERS * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE * Funds are being raised to help a graduate who lost his job with the AA after he fell and broke his leg on his way to work. As an agency worker, Alex Wright...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 24, 2018 | Benefits and welfare, Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Wages, workfare
DISCOUNT STORE ADMITS INVOLVEMENT CEASED IN APRIL – BUT DID THEY JUMP OR WERE THEY PUSHED? * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE * Poundland is no longer acting as a ‘host’ employer on the government’s Work Experience programme, Graduate Fog can exclusively...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 28, 2017 | Applications, Careers advice, CVs and interviews, disabilities and extra challenges, diversity, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, professional development
NEW ADVICE ON CVS, APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS FOR GRADUATES WITH DYSLEXIA Being a dyslexic graduate can make a tough job market feel even tougher. Graduate applications, CVs, covering letters, assessment days and interviews are all more stressful if words swim on the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 22, 2017 | Graduate unemployment, Tuition fees, Universities
WHY ALL UNIVERSITIES SHOULD WORRY ABOUT THIS EXTREME CASE The University of Oxford has been forced to defend its academic standards in the High Court, after a graduate claimed poor teaching resulted in him obtaining a “disappointing” low 2:1 degree,...
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