by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 24, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Wages
EMPLOYERS HUNT OVER-QUALIFIED YOUNG WORKERS FOR MENIAL JOBS Highly qualified university graduates are being targeted to fill low-skilled menial jobs, in a dark new trend employment experts are calling ‘credentialism’. This reflects our growing suspicion...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 23, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
AND UNIS MUST STOP PROMOTING UNPAID INTERNSHIPS, WARNS NEW REPORT Snobbish employers who only recruit graduates from elite universities – ignoring candidates from less prestigious institutions with identical grades – have been slammed in a new report...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 25, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
EMPLOYERS BASH YOUNG JOBSEEKERS – BUT SURELY SCHOOLS ARE TO BLAME? The scrapping of GCSEs has re-ignited the debate about standards of literacy and numeracy among today’s young people entering the workforce. But are the criticisms fair? And if standards...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 19, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Wages
UNILEVER HUNTS FRESHERS FOR LANDMARK NEW SCHEME The UK’s brightest young people must start competing for their position in the job market earlier than ever, it seems. Consumer goods giant and major graduate employer Unilever has announced a landmark new...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 19, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
UNIVERSITIES SHOULD BACK THEIR GRADUATES, NOT THOSE WHO SEEK TO EXPLOIT THEM Remember the unpaid press office internship at Spurs football club? And the “sales assistant internship” at the designer fashion brand Balenciaga? Both were advertised by...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 17, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
FIGHT! ROW ESCALATES BETWEEN GRADUATE FOG AND THE ‘OFFICIAL’ GRADUATE CAREERS WEBSITE The “official” graduate careers advice website Prospects — recommended by every university careers centre in the country — has told Graduate Fog...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 4, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEW SURVEY SHOCKS VAST MAJORITY OF LOW-EARNING GRADUATES A new survey has shown that the average graduate salary is now £29,000 – leading Graduate Fog to ask where on earth the researchers found these high-rolling young people they polled. Most of the graduates...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 28, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
WHOSE SIDE IS PROSPECTS ON? Graduate Prospects – supposedly the “official” graduate careers website, recommended as the go-to resource for students and graduates by every university in the UK – is promoting unpaid internships to its users,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 19, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
NEW ‘JOB-HOPPING’ GENERATION OF GRADUATES IS EMERGING – HOW MANY JOBS HAVE YOU HAD SINCE GRADUATION? The average graduate stays in their first job after university for just a year and a half, new research has revealed. Of the 42% who left their job...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 8, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
TOO MANY LAW GRADUATES AND TOO FEW PUPILLAGES MEANS MANY WILL NOT FIND JOBS A leading barrister has accused law schools of duping thousands of young people into signing up for law degrees, knowing that many of them have little hope of finding a job at the end of it....
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