by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
SHOCK ACCUSATION THAT YOU’RE “USING THE RECESSION AS AN EXCUSE TO TAP THE PARENTAL BANK” Graduate Fog wants to know what planet university careers advisers are living on – because certainly isn’t anywhere near Earth. My jaw hit the floor...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
OR ARE POLITICIANS MAKING PROMISES THEY CAN’T KEEP? Graduate Fog was pleased to see youth unemployment remembered in this week’s Budget announcement. The Chancellor, Alistair Darling, said that an extra £450m would be invested to extend the Future Jobs...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
SURPRISE ‘GOOD NEWS’ FIGURES DISGUISE A LOOMING CRISIS, CRITICS WARN Strange but true – new statistics published this week by the Office of National Statistics say that unemployment is decreasing. They also say employment is decreasing. Now, maths...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
REPORT SHOWS BOSSES WANT EXPERIENCED CANDIDATES – FUNDED BY EVERYONE BUT THEM Have 750 employers just proved themselves to be as cheap as many graduates suspect they are? This week, the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) unveiled its ideas for solving the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
GRADUATE FOG DISMAYED AS LIBERAL, LEFTIE NEWSPAPER FAILS TO CONDEMN WORK-FOR-FREE-FIRST CULTURE I fear something is very, very wrong at the Observer. Barbara Ellen’s column this weekend (‘Hey intern, get me a coffee and stop whingeing’) was a...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
WORRYING RISE IN BRAIN-BOOSTING DRUGS IN UK UNIVERSITIES, EXPERT REPORTS Disturbing rumours are buzzing around that students are now so anxious about their future they’re using drugs designed to treat ADHD and Alzheimer’s disease to give them the edge at...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
PAID-FOR PLACEMENTS TAKE BRITAIN BACK 30 YEARS, WARNS EXPERT A professor at the London School of Journalism has blasted the practice of paying for work placements, saying a financial trade in career opportunities is ‘unethical’ and gives poorer graduates...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
HAS BABY BOOMERS’ GOODY-GRAB LEFT THEIR KIDS FACING A BLEAK FUTURE? An article in this weekend’s Observer magazine claims the so-called ‘lost generation’ of graduates have been royally shafted – by your own parents. In the six-page...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
UNDERDOGS VICTORIOUS AS DUDE TELLS NEWSPAPER: “OLD CAREER ADVICE FAILS GRADUATE JOB-SEEKERS” Could a fresh batch of hate mail from crusty careers advisers be winging its way to Graduate Fog HQ? It looks likely – but I’m happy to take one for...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
“Backlog” from Class of 2009 to pinch a quarter of 2010’s graduate vacancies, warns expert Sharpen your elbows — new figures say the stage is set for an undignified scramble for graduate jobs this summer. Students applying for graduate jobs in...
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