by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
ANOTHER OUTRAGED CAREERS ADVISER INSISTS HIS PROFESSION IS ‘VERY, VERY INNOVATIVE’ DO YOU AGREE? Ooh, this is fun. Graduate Fog has received an email from another hopping mad university careers adviser (Regular readers will know that this is becoming a...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
WE CAUSE TROUBLE BY CALLING CAREERS ADVISERS ‘OUT OF TOUCH’ (WHICH THEY ARE – OOH LOOK, WE DID IT AGAIN!) It seems that Graduate Fog is doing something right – my comments in last weekend’s Stella magazine (Sunday Telegraph) have ruffled...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
CULT CAREERS BOOK FEATURES IN ‘STELLA’ MAGAZINE Well, Dude is having a thoroughly lovely Sunday – enjoying a cup of coffee and a croissant and basking in the glory of starring in today’s Stella magazine (the style section of the Sunday...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Astounding but true – new figures show that almost a third of the UK’s small to medium sized businesses (SMEs*) don’t know the difference between basic qualifications attained through the country’s education system. Graduates seeking work will...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
WHAT is Peter Mandelson doing lecturing your parents on how to cope with having an unemployed graduate back living at home? He is the Business Secretary. He is NOT a parenting coach, agony aunt or careers adviser. In the latest crushing disappointment for Dude?...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Did you come back to live with your folks after graduating? You’re not alone. The number of ‘boomerang children’ – who go off to uni and then return when they graduate – is on the rise in the UK, say experts. You don’t need to be a...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Grim news reaches Dude – the number of unemployed graduates is expected to break the 100,000 barrier this week. Which means that if you all filed into Wembley Stadium, you would more than fill the place. In fact, 10,000 of you would still be waiting outside....
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
Argh, Dude is FRUSTRATED! I’m considering picketing the House of Commons, fashioning a giant yellow sign that reads “FOR GOD’S SAKE! GIVE STUDENTS AND GRADUATES BETTER CAREER ADVICE!” Although there are signs that business secretary Peter...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
I know it doesn’t feel like it, but Dude fans have friends in high places, battling for you right now. And some of them, I suspect, have been reading their very own copy of Dude. In what I’d feared could be a giant yawn of a lecture last week at...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Dude is puzzled by news that the Government is planning to encourage kids to start planning their career at primary school. “If I don’t know what I’m going to end up doing ‘When I grow up’, how on earth is a 10-year-old meant to...
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