by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 22, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Retail, Uncategorized, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
BRIGHT AND ARTICULATE? WANT TO SHARE YOUR STORY? The BBC is looking for job-seeking graduates to take part in a new documentary about the graduate jobs crisis. The producers have assured Graduate Fog that the programme – which will air on BBC3 – will not...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 10, 2013 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Universities, Wages
ONE IN FOUR WHO TAKE NON-GRADUATE JOBS ARE STILL THERE THREE AND A HALF YEARS LATER Graduates who take ‘stop-gap’ jobs after finishing university because they can’t find a graduate role are being urged to move on quickly. New research shows that one...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 27, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
FOUR-DAYS-A-WEEK PLACEMENT AT LUXURY HOTEL PAYS TRAVEL EXPENSES ONLY One of the world’s most exclusive luxury hotels is recruiting for a unpaid intern – offering only travel expenses and meals instead of wages. An advert has appeared on The Ritz...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 21, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
APPLICANTS INCLUDE GRADUATES, SAYS COFFEE CHAIN A new branch of Costa has been flooded with 1,701 CVs – for just eight shop-based jobs. In a startling reminder of the tough competition for jobs in 2013, the coffee chain revealed that applicants included numerous...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 18, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
POUNDLAND INTERN ATTACKED AGAIN BY IAIN DUNCAN SMITH Intern hero Cait Reilly sees herself as “too good” to stack supermarket shelves, the work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said, hitting out AGAIN at the 24-year-old geology graduate who...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 12, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
GOVERNMENT SCHEMES ARE ILLEGAL AND PARTICIPANTS CAN DEMAND BACK PAY, JUDGES RULE An intern who says she was forced to work for free at Poundland as part of a government scheme has won her appeal, leaving the coalition’s back-to-work schemes in tatters. Cait...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 31, 2013 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
GOOD GRADES ARE WORTHLESS WITHOUT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE, SAY UK’S BIG GRADUATE RECRUITERS Graduates who worked hard on their studies but spent their summers doing bar work or a shop job will miss out on the best graduate jobs in 2013, analysts have said. In an...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 11, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
PRET A MANGER WORKERS MUST APPEAR “AUTHENTICALLY HAPPY” – FOR £6.25 AN HOUR The sandwich chain Pret A Manger has been accused of making unreasonable demands on their young workers, expecting them to be all smiles at all times – despite earning...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 18, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUT WAS IT REALLY AN “ISOLATED INCIDENT” AS THEY CLAIM? Harrods has become the latest big brand to award back-pay to a former intern as part of our Justice for Interns campaign. The £1,800 payment means Graduate Fog and Intern Aware have now won more than...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 14, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Parents and family, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
IS ANYBODY EARNING ENOUGH TO PAY THEIR OWN RENT? As growing numbers of fashion-focussed graduates tell us they are working for years unpaid (yes, really), Graduate Fog wonders: is anybody earning a decent wage in this industry? Or is the truth that most people working...
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