by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 27, 2014 | average graduate salary, Benefits and welfare, Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, job hunting, Politicians, Recession and economy, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare, zero hours contracts
LOWEST PAID WORKERS LOOK SET TO EARN 3% MORE There is good news for graduates earning the national minimum wage – Britain’s business leaders have announced they are backing a proposed 3% rise recommended by the Low Pay Commission. The bad news?...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 13, 2014 | Applications, average graduate salary, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, Wages
GUIDE SHOWS HOW TO AVOID “POTENTIAL HOSTILE QUESTIONING” ABOUT UNPAID POSITIONS * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE * A bizarre memo has been sent to Conservative MPs advising them to start calling their interns ‘campaign volunteers’ in order to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 24, 2014 | average graduate salary, Benefits and welfare, Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Recession and economy, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, zero hours contracts
ARE THERE MORE PAID GRADUATE JOBS AROUND NOW? DO YOU FEEL MORE CONFIDENT ABOUT YOUR CAREER? Politicians have been patting themselves on the back this week as new stats showed overall unemployment is falling in the UK. But are things really improving yet for...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 10, 2014 | Benefits and welfare, Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Politicians, Recession and economy, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
BETTER PAY COULD MEAN FEWER JOBS, ARGUES CHANCELLOR Graduates working for the minimum wage should brace themselves for disappointment – George Osborne has cautioned against a proposed pay rise for those receiving the lowest legal wage. Forcing employers to pay...
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 12, 2013 | Applications, average graduate salary, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Job boards, job hunting, Politicians, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, Wages
TREASURY OFFICIAL REPORTED TO HIS OWN DEPARTMENT FOR INVESTIGATION * STORY PICKED UP BY GUIDO FAWKES! * A Conservative MP who is also a senior figure at the Treasury has been reported to his own officials at HM Revenue and Customs over a mysterious six-month...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 28, 2013 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Politicians, Recession and economy, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUZZFEED PUBLISHES SHOCKING LIST Buzzfeed has published a list of the most shocking unpaid internships ever to have been advertised or run in Great Britain – including many examples originally uncovered by Graduate Fog. The shameful collection includes examples...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 22, 2013 | CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Job boards, job hunting, Law, Media and journalism, Parents and family, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, Wages
FOUNDER TANYA DE GRUNWALD ON HOW INTERNS FOUND THEIR VOICE Graduate Fog founder Tanya de Grunwald has blasted employers who continue to hire interns and pay them less than the minimum wage, in an article she was commissioned to write for the Guardian. She praised the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 11, 2013 | average graduate salary, Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
BOSSES PROMOTING WAGE-FREE ROLES TO BE WARNED BY HMRC *GRADUATE FOG MENTIONED TODAY ON SKY NEWS!* Officials are to send letters to 200 employers who have recently advertised unpaid internships, as part of the government’s battle to prove to young people that it...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 7, 2013 | Applications, Benefits and welfare, Careers advice, CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Politicians, Recession and economy
UNDER-TRAINED ADVISERS LEAVE YOUNG JOBSEEKERS “SHROUDED IN SHAME” Job centres for under-25s should be scrapped as they stigmatise and demoralise young people seeking work, and MP has said. At present, under-trained staff in the “high street holding...
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