by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 8, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
STORM BREWS FOR POLITICIANS AS UNPAID PLACEMENTS WITHIN HOME OFFICE AND NHS ARE REVEALED BBC Radio 5 Live is set to expose the scandalous spread of unpaid internships from the private sector into the public sector. THIS Sunday (10th October) at 9pm, 5 Live...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 7, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
STRUGGLING TO FIND WORK? TRY HAVING A DISABILITY TOO It has been claimed that graduate jobseekers with ‘neuro-diverse’ disabilities are not receiving enough support from universities and the government to help them into work, as competition for graduate...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 30, 2010 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
**GRADUATE FOG GUEST BLOG POST!** BY BILL BOORMAN, FOUNDER OF THE RECRUITING UNBLOG AND SOCIAL JOB SEARCH Tomorrow I’m going to the theatre to see Spamalot again (being a baby-boomer, I love all the Python stuff). The musical opens with the words...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 28, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
GRADUATE FOG QUIZZES HMRC OVER SYSTEM THAT FAILS YOUNG WORKERS The people responsible for protecting interns from exploitation have failed to assure Graduate Fog that they understand the scale or complexity of the situation they are in charge of policing. In an...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 23, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Uncategorized, Universities
GRIM PROSPECTS FOR GRADUATES ARE “FANTASTIC NEWS” FOR EMPLOYERS A senior jobs expert has clashed with appalled graduates by suggesting that news that a third of call centre workers in the UK now have a degree is “fantastic.” That this figure...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 21, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Politicians, Uncategorized, Unpaid internships
WORK FOR ELEVEN MONTHS UNPAID – WITH NO EXPENSES A hawk-eyed Graduate Fogger has spotted what could be the most outrageous ad EVER for an internship ‘opportunity.’ Powerful Media – “a cutting edge media consultancy firm based in Canary...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 14, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
NEW BOOK BLAMES YEARS OF SHORT-SIGHTED POLITICS FOR THE PLIGHT OF TODAY’S YOUNG WORKERS Two young journalists have launched a blistering attack on the politicians who have failed to protect the welfare of today’s young job-seekers. In their new book Jilted...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 8, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
ONLY SIX PROSECUTIONS IN FOUR YEARS, FINDS GRADUATE FOG Shocking statistics discovered by Graduate Fog suggest that the official complaints procedure in place to protect interns from exploitation needs an urgent re-think. Left as it is now, the current system will...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 25, 2010 | Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
LABOUR LEADERSHIP HOPEFUL WAGES WAR AGAINST ‘METROPOLITAN ELITE’ Do unpaid interns have a new hero? And does Graduate Fog have a new crush? I have written before (on this website and for the Guardian) about how I believe the business community has...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 20, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
REPLIES TO EVERY APPLICANT GUARANTEED – AND COMPANIES WHO USE UNPAID INTERNS ARE BANNED! Today this website launches the new Graduate Fog Job Board! As well as offering you fantastic opportunities (and earning me a bit of cash so I can keep our brilliant website...
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