by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 4, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
YEAH, TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, SAYS GRADUATE FOG An American website which auctions unpaid internships for thousands of dollars – and plans to expand to the UK – has refused to answer Graduate Fog’s questions about how its business model fits with the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 14, 2011 | Graduate Jobs, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
THE DARK APPEAL OF THE INDUSTRY THAT HATES ITS YOUNG Why are so many graduates desperate to break into an industry that pays sleazy private eyes huge sums of money for phone hacking — but won’t pay its interns the minimum wage? This summer 40,000 of the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 28, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUT INDUSTRY EXPERTS CLAIM THERE’S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT! A new survey has revealed that there are now 83 applicants for every graduate job – but industry experts have stunned Graduate Fog by insisting the new figures are not cause for concern, with one...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 6, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
…AND ADMITS TO USING 6,000 UNPAID INTERNS IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS The BBC is feeling the heat today after the Telegraph reported that the corporation has employed 6,000 unpaid interns in the last four years – but still insisted that these workers had...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 23, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
EMPLOYER INSISTS INTERNS WERE “VOLUNTEERS” AND “TREATED TO FREE LUNCHES” The publishing company forced by the courts to pay a former unpaid intern over £2,000 in pay and damages has failed to apologise for using her for free labour. Instead, a...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 16, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
LANDMARK VICTORY SEES JOURNALISM INTERN AWARDED OVER £2,000 IN PAY AND DAMAGES A journalism intern has scored a victory for interns everywhere by successfully suing her publishing company employer for whom she interned unpaid for several weeks. Keri Hudson, 21, proved...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 6, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Politicians, Unpaid internships
BEING AN UNPAID INTERN IS NOT A CRIME, SAYS GRADUATE FOG Nick Clegg has been ridiculed after it emerged that he himself had benefited from doing an unpaid internship early on in his career. The revelation came on the day that he was launching new measures to tackle...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 14, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
BITCHY ‘STYLE’ EDITORS ADMIT TO POKING FUN AT ‘ENTITLED WORKIES’ The Sunday Times has shocked Graduate Fog by publishing a feature presenting young jobseekers as hilariously entitled and lazy. The piece includes an admission that senior editors...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 11, 2011 | Careers advice, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
LONDON NEWSPAPER THE EVENING STANDARD KICKS YOUNG JOBLESS WHEN THEY’RE DOWN The London Evening Standard has shocked Graduate Fog by publishing an article which implies that youth unemployment is the fault of young people, not the government (which many of you...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 3, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
YES, FASHION PEOPLE REALLY ARE THAT DUMB The company that publicises fashion brands Calvin Klein, Uniqlo and Sienna Miller’s label Twenty8Twelve last night admitted on national television that 20 of its 70 staff are unpaid interns. During the excellent BBC2...
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