by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 28, 2013 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Politicians, Recession and economy, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUZZFEED PUBLISHES SHOCKING LIST Buzzfeed has published a list of the most shocking unpaid internships ever to have been advertised or run in Great Britain – including many examples originally uncovered by Graduate Fog. The shameful collection includes examples...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 26, 2013 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Recession and economy, Tuition fees, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
INEXPERIENCED WORKERS MUST “FACE THE CONSEQUENCES” OF TOO MUCH FUN AT UNI, SAYS YOUNG JOURNALIST A young journalist has sparked intense debate online after claiming many of her fellow graduates are not worth paying because they don’t have the skills...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 25, 2013 | Banking, Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Recession and economy, Wages
FATIGUE COULD HAVE BEEN A TRIGGER – BUT NO CONCLUSIVE PROOF, EXPERT TELLS COURT An inquest has found that Moritz Erhardt, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern who was found dead in a shower at his London flat after working for 72 hours in a row, died of an...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 22, 2013 | CVs and interviews, Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Job boards, job hunting, Law, Media and journalism, Parents and family, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, Wages
FOUNDER TANYA DE GRUNWALD ON HOW INTERNS FOUND THEIR VOICE Graduate Fog founder Tanya de Grunwald has blasted employers who continue to hire interns and pay them less than the minimum wage, in an article she was commissioned to write for the Guardian. She praised the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 21, 2013 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Recession and economy, science and technology, Wages
ONE COMPANY BOSS INSISTS YOU ARE WORTH IT (AND YES, HE IS HIRING NOW!) If you asked a company boss “What is a new graduate worth to you?” you’d expect them to say “Not much”, “As little as I can get away with paying”, or...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 11, 2013 | average graduate salary, Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
BOSSES PROMOTING WAGE-FREE ROLES TO BE WARNED BY HMRC *GRADUATE FOG MENTIONED TODAY ON SKY NEWS!* Officials are to send letters to 200 employers who have recently advertised unpaid internships, as part of the government’s battle to prove to young people that it...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 1, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Law, Recession and economy, Tuition fees, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEED FOR UNPAID EXPERIENCE LOCKING POORER GRADUATES OUT OF THE PROFESSION Britain’s top female judge has warned that the growth of unpaid internships is a “grim” and “very gloomy” trend that is undermining efforts to improve diversity in...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 25, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
‘DEVIL WEARS PRADA’ INTERNS SHAME CONDE NAST INTO CLOSING ITS SCHEME A leading US publishing house is to stop its unpaid internship programme, after being sued by two former interns who claim they worked there for less than $1 an hour. Its UK office has...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 10, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Recession and economy, Unpaid internships, Wages
MEDIA INTERN DROPS CLAIM WHEN TOLD SHE ISN’T AN “EMPLOYEE” An unpaid intern has been told she cannot bring a sexual harassment claim against her former supervisor, as she is not considered an employee. Although the case happened in the United States,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 8, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Recession and economy, Wages
DEAD GRADUATE WORKED “EXCESSIVELY” DURING PLACEMENT AT LONDON BANK The father of the banking intern who died after working for three nights in a row has said “something needs to change” to prevent a similar tragedy happening again. He called...
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