by Tanya de Grunwald | May 23, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
JOIN ‘JUSTICE FOR INTERNS’, OUR NEW CAMPAIGN Have you interned for a well-known brand, celebrity or a high-profile MP? Then we want to hear from you! Graduate Fog and Intern Aware today launch Justice for Interns. This historic campaign will see the big...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 22, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Retail, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
SHOP JOB AT LUXURY FASHION LABEL IS A “LEARNING OPPORTUNITY” FOR OUR STUDENTS, INSISTS UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS The university currently advertising a controversial unpaid “intern sales assistant” position at luxury fashion label Balenciaga...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 17, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Retail, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
“LEARN HOW TO REPLENISH STOCK” FOR TRAVEL EXPENSES ONLY The super-luxe fashion label Balanciaga – a favourite of Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss – has advertised for a “intern sales assistant” to work on the shop floor of their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 2, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
FOUR IN TEN HAVE APPLIED FOR OVER 100 JOBS AND A THIRD ARE CLAIMING THE DOLE More than a third of UK graduates have been forced to claim Jobseekers Allowance, two fifths have applied for over 100 jobs and a quarter have not been offered any interviews at all. The...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 4, 2012 | Careers advice, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
SHOCK AS UNPAID, THREE-MONTH PLACEMENT SCOOPS PRESTIGIOUS ‘BEST INTERNSHIP’ PRIZE An internship lasting 12 weeks, involving real work and paying only travel and lunch expenses has been awarded the prestigious “Graduate Internship of the Year”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 15, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
THREE-MONTH UNPAID INTERNSHIPS SHOULD BE PART OF EVERY DEGREE, SAYS NEW REPORT A new report commissioned by the government has shocked students and graduates by suggesting that every university student should complete up to 12 weeks of interning as part of their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 6, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Retail, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
A THIRD OF GRADUATES ARE DOING LOW-SKILLED JOBS, NEW RESEARCH REVEALS The number of recent graduates employed in low-skilled jobs — including retail assistants, cleaners, hotel porters and machine operatives — has hit a ten-year high, according to new...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 23, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
IN BOTH GROUPS, ONE IN FOUR IS LOOKING FOR WORK A 21-year-old graduate now has the same change of being out of work as a 16-year-old school leaver with one GCSE, according to new stats released today. While the figures are unlikely to cheer job-seeking graduates, we...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 14, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Wages
STUDENT LOANS BOSS’s TAX DODGE SAVES HIM £26,000 EACH YEAR The man responsible for collecting debts from millions of graduates has been involved in an elaborate tax dodge on his £185,000 earnings – saving him the equivalent of the average graduate salary...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 20, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
VALUE OF A GOOD REFERENCE TUMBLES, AS REFEREES ADMIT THEY’RE TO SCARED TO BE HONEST Graduates who have worked hard to get good references from their university tutors and employers may have wasted their time, it has been suggested. Worse still, candidates from...
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