Christmas shopping at JOY? Spare a thought for their unpaid interns

Christmas shopping at JOY? Spare a thought for their unpaid interns

by | Dec 9, 2013 | average graduate salary, Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Recession and economy, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages

GRADUATE FOG KICKS OFF ‘SHAME INTERN SCROOGES’ CAMPAIGN * WANT US TO KEEP YOU UPDATED? LIKE US ON FACEBOOK OR FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! * Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? If not, we suggest you walk straight past JOY – the high street gift and...
9 of the worst unpaid internships in Britain

9 of the worst unpaid internships in Britain

by | 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...
Traitor or victim? The graduate who says interns aren’t worth paying

Traitor or victim? The graduate who says interns aren’t worth paying

by | Nov 26, 2013 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Recession and economy, Tuition fees, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages

INEXPERIENCED WORKERS MUST “FACE THE CONSEQUENCES” OF TOO MUCH FUN AT UNI, SAYS YOUNG JOURNALIST A young journalist has sparked intense debate online after claiming many of her fellow graduates are not worth paying because they don’t have the skills...
Bank intern Moritz Erhardt died from epileptic seizure, says coroner

Bank intern Moritz Erhardt died from epileptic seizure, says coroner

by | Nov 25, 2013 | Banking, Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Recession and economy, Wages

FATIGUE COULD HAVE BEEN A TRIGGER – BUT NO CONCLUSIVE PROOF, EXPERT TELLS COURT An inquest has found that Moritz Erhardt, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern who was found dead in a shower at his London flat after working for 72 hours in a row, died of an...
Graduate Fog in today’s Guardian!

Graduate Fog in today’s Guardian!

by | 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...
Average graduate salary plummets as half of graduates take low-skilled jobs

Average graduate salary plummets as half of graduates take low-skilled jobs

by | Nov 20, 2013 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, zero hours contracts

BUT WAGES DO RISE FASTER FOR THOSE WITH A DEGREE New figures show how almost half of all university leavers have taken non-graduate roles – and the true average graduate salary appears to be far lower than the £29,000 stated previously by statisticians...
Jobcentre staff are target-driven “box tickers” says MP

Jobcentre staff are target-driven “box tickers” says MP

by | 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...
Law internships are a “grim” trend, says top judge

Law internships are a “grim” trend, says top judge

by | Nov 1, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Law, Recession and economy, Tuition fees, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages

NEED FOR UNPAID EXPERIENCE LOCKING POORER GRADUATES OUT OF THE PROFESSION Britain’s top female judge has warned that the growth of unpaid internships is a “grim” and “very gloomy” trend that is undermining efforts to improve diversity in...