by Tanya de Grunwald | May 14, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
POORER GRADUATES CAN NOW REPORT ADVERTS FOR UNPAID INTERNSHIPS AS GOVERNMENT FINALLY VOWS TO BACK YOUNG WORKERS Graduates who spot adverts for unpaid internships which appear to involve real work but pay less than the minimum wage can now report them to officials,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 7, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
NOW JUST 3% OF JUNIOR JOURNALISTS HAVE WORKING CLASS PARENTS The majority of young people entering journalism today are from middle class ‘professional’ families, in what is becoming an increasingly socially exclusive career, a new survey has found....
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 29, 2013 | graduate debt, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Housing, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
CHILDLESS UNDER-35s STRUGGLE ON LESS THAN HALF OF WHAT THEY NEED The risk of young singles having less than 50% of the income required for an adequate standard of living has nearly doubled, a new study has shown. In recent years, the percentage of single under-35s...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 24, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
VICTORY FOR INTERNS AS FIRST RECRUITMENT SITE PLEDGES TO REMOVE ANY ADVERTS FOR EXPLOITATIVE ROLES *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* **Like this? Please Share and RT!** Monster.co.uk has become the first major UK recruitment website to pledge publicly that it will not support...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 22, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Retail, Uncategorized, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
BRIGHT AND ARTICULATE? WANT TO SHARE YOUR STORY? The BBC is looking for job-seeking graduates to take part in a new documentary about the graduate jobs crisis. The producers have assured Graduate Fog that the programme – which will air on BBC3 – will not...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 12, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
BIG BRANDS PANIC, FEARING INVESTIGATION, FINES AND PUBLIC SHAME Big brands that have been brazenly advertising unpaid internships – and the big job boards that carry these adverts – were feeling the heat today as a list of 100 big companies who have been...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 10, 2013 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Universities, Wages
ONE IN FOUR WHO TAKE NON-GRADUATE JOBS ARE STILL THERE THREE AND A HALF YEARS LATER Graduates who take ‘stop-gap’ jobs after finishing university because they can’t find a graduate role are being urged to move on quickly. New research shows that one...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 5, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
“A FORMAT THAT TAKES HOPEFUL INNOCENTS AND MOCKS THEM FOR OUR ENTERTAINMENT” Did you watch ‘The Intern’ last night? If you missed it, here’s what the critics said… John Crace, The Guardian “The Intern is basically the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 4, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Housing, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
WHY ARE EDUCATED YOUNG PEOPLE RECEIVING WELFARE PAYMENTS? Recently graduated – and claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, housing benefit or any other form of welfare ‘hand-out’? Do you consider yourself a striver – or a skiver? As the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 20, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
LAWYERS BLAST POLITICIANS’ SNEAKY “RETROACTIVE” LAW TO AVOID MASS PAY-OUTS The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is trying to rush a ‘retroactive’ law through parliament so the government can avoid paying £130m in benefit rebates to...
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