by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 17, 2014 | Applications, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Job boards, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
IT WON’T BE THE BIGGEST, BUT COULD IT BE THE BEST? You love this website – and you need a job. So does it make sense to add a job board to Graduate Fog? Until now, we have not had much in the way of a jobs board. Visit our Jobs page and you’ll find a...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 15, 2014 | average graduate salary, Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Recession and economy, science and technology, Tuition fees, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
IS EIGHT-WEEK “PAY-TO-LEARN-TO-EARN” COURSE A RIP-OFF? Graduate Fog is increasingly concerned about the rise in post-uni, pre-job training courses being targeted at recent graduates struggling to find a paid, permanent job in their chosen field. The latest...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 14, 2014 | CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Job boards, job hunting, Recession and economy
AND RECORD NUMBERS SEARCHED ONLINE BETWEEN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR Haven’t started your 2014 job hunt yet? You’d better get cracking – as you’re already behind the competition. New figures show that record numbers of jobseekers logged on to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 13, 2014 | average graduate salary, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, job hunting, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, Wages
HIGH CITY RENT IS CREATING JOB “BLACKSPOTS” IN RURAL AREAS Sky-high rent in big cities is pricing thousands of graduates out of the race for the best vacancies, new stats show. The problem is creating job “blackspots” where young jobseekers in...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 9, 2014 | Careers advice, CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Job boards, job hunting
11 NO-NONSENSE TIPS YOU NEED TO READ NOW Struggling to regain your focus after the Christmas break? Know you need to get going, but can’t work out how? Or have you started — and run out of steam already? Whether you’re at home all day, every day or...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 9, 2014 | average graduate salary, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Immigration, job hunting, Media and journalism, Recession and economy, Wages
BRITISH GRADUATES COULD BE “ELBOWED” OUT OF THE JOB MARKET, DAILY MAIL CLAIMS. BUT IS THAT FACT OR FICTION? An “influx” of young, educated Eastern European immigrants could be about to make British graduates’ job hunts even tougher, if...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 7, 2014 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Recession and economy, Tuition fees, Universities, Wages
GRADUATES ARE “EDUCATED BUT UNTRAINED” INSISTS ROYAL (WHO DIDN’T GO TO UNI) Prince Andrew has claimed graduates are unprepared for the world of work, and that young people should only regard their university degree as “icing on the cake”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 24, 2013 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, Wages, zero hours contracts
BUT LOW WAGES AND SHORT-TERM CONTRACTS WILL STAY If you found it tough to land a graduate job in 2013, we have good news. It should be a bit easier in 2014. More than a fifth of firms say they plan to hire more graduates in 2014 than they did in 2013, according to a...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 17, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
PLACEMENTS “EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL” AT HELPING YOUNG INTO PAID JOBS (AS LONG AS YOU CAN WORK FOR FREE FIRST) The fashion and media empire Vice has proudly claimed that its unpaid “work experience” placements are “extremely successful”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 15, 2013 | Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, Wages
“JUST LIKE A JOB – BUT THEY DON’T PAY YOU” EXPLAINS ORLANDO Remember Orlando, the star of hit YouTube video Gap Yah? Well, his life has moved on – and he’s now doing an ‘intahnshup’ at an art gallery. In fact, it’s...
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