by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 23, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
NOW’S YOUR CHANCE! The UK’s army of unpaid interns is today being urged to stand up and be counted in a new survey that could directly impact the government’s policy on this important issue. Uniquely, interns will NOT be required to name their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 22, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
HOW CAN NUMBER-CRUNCHERS MISS NEARLY 130,000 YOUNG WORKERS? Unpaid interns are invisible, according to the statisticians whose job it is to count you. The Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA) has released new figures showing the whereabouts of last...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 17, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
ALMOST ONE IN FIVE YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD CONSIDER SWAPPING SEX FOR CASH Concerns have been raised that record levels of graduate debt could push young people – particularly women – into exploring prostitution as a solution to their money worries. The...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 16, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
CAREERS SERVICES SIDE WITH EMPLOYERS OVER STUDENTS *Graduate Fog exclusive!* Why are university careers services doing so little to fight the problem of unpaid internships? Why do only 10% of graduates know that unpaid internships are illegal? And why are many...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 4, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
YEAH, TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, SAYS GRADUATE FOG An American website which auctions unpaid internships for thousands of dollars – and plans to expand to the UK – has refused to answer Graduate Fog’s questions about how its business model fits with the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 27, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
IS IT ARROGANCE OR IGNORANCE? Yesterday, a start-up company approached Graduate Fog and suggested that I should pay THEIR intern. Why is it that small, new companies think they can behave however they like – and that the National Minimum Wage laws don’t...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 26, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
BRITAIN’S INTERNS ARE LEADING THE GLOBAL BATTLE FOR YOUNG WORKERS’ RIGHTS, SAYS TOP US EXPERT An international expert in the spread of the unpaid internship culture has told Graduate Fog that he is impressed with the momentum behind the campaign against...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 19, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
HAVE DAVID WILLETTS’ NEW CONTACT LENSES GIVEN HIM CLARITY AT LAST? David Willetts, the universities minister, reminded a packed conference room of professionals yesterday that anybody considering hiring interns must comply with the existing National Minimum Wage...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 18, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Uncategorized, Unpaid internships, Wages
…SO 96% ARE LYING THEN? “This unpaid interns nonsense is a lot of fuss about nothing.” That seems to be the view of the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR), whose latest survey appears to show that nearly all graduate recruiters DO pay their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 14, 2011 | Graduate Jobs, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
THE DARK APPEAL OF THE INDUSTRY THAT HATES ITS YOUNG Why are so many graduates desperate to break into an industry that pays sleazy private eyes huge sums of money for phone hacking — but won’t pay its interns the minimum wage? This summer 40,000 of the...
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