by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 11, 2013 | Applications, Business, CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail
DO EMPLOYERS TAKE THE MICK OUT OF YOUNG JOBSEEKERS? A university graduate has said he was asked to dance to a Daft Punk track during a job interview at Currys, the electronics superstore, saying he felt “degraded”, “crushed” and stripped of his...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 2, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Uncategorized, Unpaid internships, Wages
MILKROUND, TARGET JOBS AND OTHERS JOIN MONSTER AND TOTAL JOBS IN PLEDGE TO YOUNG JOBSEEKERS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* The UK’s biggest job boards have united in making a historic pledge to remove adverts for unpaid internships which appear to break the UK...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 30, 2013 | average graduate salary, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare, zero hours contracts
AND AVERAGE GRADUATE SALARY IS £24,000 (APPARENTLY) A new survey has claimed that just 3% of people who graduated during the recession were unemployed three and a half years later – and the average graduate salary for those in work is £24,000. But struggling...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 21, 2013 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Unpaid internships, Wages
EXHAUSTED MERRILL LYNCH INTERN FOUND DEAD AGED 21 Graduate Fog was shocked and sad to hear of the death of Moritz Erhardt, a summer intern nearing the end of his seven-week placement at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London. Friends have said that Moritz – who...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 15, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
INTERNSHIPS ARE OPPORTUNITIES, NOT JOBS – SO DON’T EXPECT WAGES A Spectator columnist has called graduates who complain about doing unpaid internships “ridiculous”, “sad-eyed” and “preposterous” – and accused them...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 7, 2013 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Uncategorized, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
TOP AUTHOR PRAISES YOUR “GUTSINESS” AND ADMITS AMERICANS ARE TOO “SHY” TO NAME AND SHAME THE GUILTY A top author and expert on US internships has praised the “gutsiness” of UK interns and campaigners – in particular our...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 5, 2013 | average graduate salary, Business, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Retail, Wages, zero hours contracts
DESPERATE UNDER 24s ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO EXPLOITATIVE EMPLOYMENT TERMS – BUT EXPERT INSISTS CONTRACTS CAN BE ‘POSITIVE’ Young workers are most likely to be trapped by controversial zero-hours contracts, according to new evidence. The finding was...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 1, 2013 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Wages, zero hours contracts
FLEXIBLE WORKING – OR PURE EXPLOITATION? SHARE YOUR VIEWS * UPDATE: 25 JUNE 2014 * Business secretary Vince Cable has moved to ban ‘exclusivity’ clauses in zero-hours contracts, which have tied desperate workers to one employer, even when that...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 25, 2013 | average graduate salary, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
EVEN SCRAPING AN UPPER SECOND MAKES YOU £2,000 EXTRA PER YEAR We all know that your degree result has an impact on career success, but did you know just how much difference getting a 2:1 can make to your earning potential? New research from the London School of...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 23, 2013 | CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting
TWO THIRDS SPEND LESS THAN 60 MINUTES PREPARING Most people applying for jobs spend less than one hour on each application, said a study by social media recruitment firm staffbay.com. Two-thirds of job seekers spend less than an hour to apply for a job, with less than...
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