by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 27, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
PUNY PAY PACKETS MEAN WORKERS ARE NOT SPENDING, SAYS NEWSPAPER EDITOR Employers who pay their graduates low wages – or even no wages at all – are helping to keep the UK in recession, an expert has said. Writing in yesterday’s City AM, the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 20, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
“INSULTING” REMARK FROM DAMIAN COLLINS A Conservative politician has said that young people should busk to raise the travel money they need to get to work. Damian Collins — who is the MP for Folkstone — made the point during on last...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 14, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Parents and family, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
IS ANYBODY EARNING ENOUGH TO PAY THEIR OWN RENT? As growing numbers of fashion-focussed graduates tell us they are working for years unpaid (yes, really), Graduate Fog wonders: is anybody earning a decent wage in this industry? Or is the truth that most people working...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 12, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
MILLIONS STRUGGLING TO REPAY “WEIRD” LOAN WILL CREATE “ECONOMIC CRISIS” IN YEARS TO COME The president of the National Union of Students has warned that graduate debt is a ticking “time bomb” that could have a huge impact on the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 30, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
SHOCKING NEW TRIAL SCHEME WILL SEE GRADUATES MAKE JUST £1.87 AN HOUR Job-seeking graduates living in London are to be forced to work for three months unpaid in order to keep their benefits, the government has announced. That means they will be toiling for less than...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 28, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
WE KNEW IT! MOST GRADUATES EARN UNDER £20,000, NOT NEARLY £30,000 The real average graduate salary is nearly £10,000 a year less than previous figures have suggested, new figures reveal. Despite claims from the Association of Graduate Recruiters earlier this year that...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 3, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
THE ECONOMIST INSULTS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GRADUATES The Economist has published an article which insults tens of thousands of graduates by insisting most interns have “only a vague notion of what work involves”. It also appears to be a direct endorsement...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 24, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
FIVE “OLYMPICS MEDIA HANDLING INTERNS” MUST WORK NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS – FOR NO MONEY An advert has been posted for five “Olympic media handling interns” who must be available for six-hour shifts between 6am and midnight, throughout the...
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...
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