by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 24, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Wages
EMPLOYERS HUNT OVER-QUALIFIED YOUNG WORKERS FOR MENIAL JOBS Highly qualified university graduates are being targeted to fill low-skilled menial jobs, in a dark new trend employment experts are calling ‘credentialism’. This reflects our growing suspicion...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 23, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
AND UNIS MUST STOP PROMOTING UNPAID INTERNSHIPS, WARNS NEW REPORT Snobbish employers who only recruit graduates from elite universities – ignoring candidates from less prestigious institutions with identical grades – have been slammed in a new report...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 19, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
INTERN PACKED CLOTHES IN THE STOCKROOM AND TRAINED HER OWN REPLACEMENT An intern who worked at NOW magazine has been awarded £750 of back pay after signing up for our Justice for Interns campaign. IPC Media, the magazine’s publisher, admitted she had carried out...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 18, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
MAGAZINE PUBLISHER, AUCTION HOUSE AND TECH GIANT PAY OUT — BUT WE CAN’T TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE **GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE** Three big companies have written cheques totalling nearly £3,000 to a group of interns who challenged them for failing to pay the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 17, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
BEGGARS CAN’T BE CHOOSERS — CAN THEY? **GUEST POST BY ANNE WILSON, ONE-TO-ONE CAREERS ADVISER FOR GRADUATES AT GRADUATEJOBMENTOR.CO.UK** I’m inspired when I meet graduates with strong principles. Many of the graduates I work with tell me that...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 16, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
“WORRYING” TREND AS CARELESS GRADUATES MISS OUT ON JOBS Graduates are missing out on jobs because they are failing to adjust their privacy settings on Facebook, new research has found. A new survey by Hays recruitment agency found that only just over half...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 10, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
A REWARD FOR GRAFTERS – OR A PENALTY FOR THE POOR? Graduates who intern for three months after university add an average of £1,500 to their starting salary when they eventually begin their first paid job, new research shows. As most internships are now unpaid...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 27, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
PUNY PAY PACKETS MEAN WORKERS ARE NOT SPENDING, SAYS NEWSPAPER EDITOR Employers who pay their graduates low wages – or even no wages at all – are helping to keep the UK in recession, an expert has said. Writing in yesterday’s City AM, the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 25, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
EMPLOYERS BASH YOUNG JOBSEEKERS – BUT SURELY SCHOOLS ARE TO BLAME? The scrapping of GCSEs has re-ignited the debate about standards of literacy and numeracy among today’s young people entering the workforce. But are the criticisms fair? And if standards...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 20, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
“INSULTING” REMARK FROM DAMIAN COLLINS A Conservative politician has said that young people should busk to raise the travel money they need to get to work. Damian Collins — who is the MP for Folkstone — made the point during on last...
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