by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
News reaches Dude? that Peter Mandelson’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is launching a new website to pair graduates with internship opportunities. Gradute Talent Pool works like a job board – only all placements are temporary. Some...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
A storm is a-brewing – as the Guardian today published this damning news story about graduates being exploited for cheap (or free) labour, as companies tighten their belts for as the recession hits… Dude is stumped (or baffled, indeed!). Poor graduates...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Feeling used and abused – and not in a good way? Sniffing the unmistakable whiff of slave labour? If you’re getting the sneaking suspicion that employers are taking advantage of jobless graduates and using them for free labour when they have no intention...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Strange but true, shambolic London Mayor Boris Johnson has launched a new website aimed at helping graduate job-seekers this summer. It’s called Helping Graduates Into Work and was created with the help of the ever-excellent The Careers Group, University of...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Just graduated, living back at home with you folks – and having a rubbish time generally? I’m offering FREE 1-2-1 CAREER ADVICE for anyone who’d like to appear in an article I’ve been commissioned to write for a national newspaper. If...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
This one’s a bit controversial I know, if you’re strugging to find work… but the journalist Giles Coren reckons the Class of 2009 are actually lucky… How? Because cuts to grad schemes with the employers mean you’ve been spared the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you’re stuffing envelopes, pulling pints or frothing milk at Starbucks this summer, there is one reason to be joyful – a new article says you’re actually being smart. Doing menial work means you own more of your personal brainpower than someone...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
How happy was I to stumble across a discussion between baffled graduates recommending my book to one another on Prospects.ac.uk?! Click here to see what they’re saying…
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Busy sending off applications to jobs – and feel like recruiters have all the power? Not for long. It might tickle you to know that in fact, recruiters are scared of YOU. Why? Because graduates are changing – and the big employers don’t know how to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
Which sucks more: the application process – or the applicants themselves? Roll up your sleeves and get involved in the Guardian’s online debate here. Dude? fears this one could run and run…
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