by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 11, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
IT’S TIME FOR SOLIDARITY, SAYS STUDENT If young people really want to see an end to unpaid internships, they must all refuse to work for free whatever their economic background, it has been suggested. Libby Page, a serial intern now in her final year studying...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 10, 2012 | graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Parents and family, Wages
DEBT AND POOR JOB PROSPECTS SEE NUMBER TAKING THEIR OWN LIVES INCREASE BY MORE THAN A THIRD *Thinking dark thoughts? We promise you’re not alone — and there is help available. Please contact PAPYRUS or the Samaritans now. Suicide is always a tragic waste...
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 29, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting
WARNING: SOME OF THEM ARE PRETTY WEIRD Think your interviewer only cares about your skills, experience and whether you’ll fit in? Think again — that’s just for starters. Dan Hawes, founder of graduate recruitment agency Graduate Recruitment Bureau,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 21, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting
THE GRADUATE GUIDE TO DRESSING LIKE AN ADULT **GUEST FEATURE BY JOSIE SAMPSON, BLOGGER FOR ONLINE FASHION RETAILER MIINTO** Have you spent the last three years repairing your tights with nail varnish, wearing your jeans for, like, a whole term without washing them...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 15, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, Unpaid internships, Wages
£6.19 AN HOUR DOESN’T GO FAR IN 2012, GRADUATES TELL US It’s been dubbed the ‘poverty wage’ because it is so grim to live on – yet new figures show that millions of people in the UK are only earning the national minimum wage. At present,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 12, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
PUBLISHER OF HEAT AND GRAZIA PROMISES ALL INTERNSHIPS ADVERTISED ON NEW CAREERS SITE WILL PAY AT LEAST THE MINIMUM WAGE A brand new careers website run by magazine publisher Bauer and mobile phone network O2 has promised that all internships advertised on the site...
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...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 25, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
IRONY ALERT AS “MR MINIMUM WAGE” OFFERS EXPENSES-ONLY INTERNSHIP AT HIS PRIVATE OFFICE **GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE** A graduate from a top London university has told Graduate Fog that he was offered and then rejected for a three-month internship at Tony...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 25, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Uncategorized, Unpaid internships, Wages
ISN’T IT FUNNY HOW INTERNS ARE SO POWERLESS? ER, NO, NOT REALLY… **GUEST POST** Politics graduate Kayla, 24, has done an unpaid internship with Amnesty International and a paid internship with Lloyds Banking Group. She gives her verdict on The Work...
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