by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 18, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
POUNDLAND INTERN ATTACKED AGAIN BY IAIN DUNCAN SMITH Intern hero Cait Reilly sees herself as “too good” to stack supermarket shelves, the work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said, hitting out AGAIN at the 24-year-old geology graduate who...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 12, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
GOVERNMENT SCHEMES ARE ILLEGAL AND PARTICIPANTS CAN DEMAND BACK PAY, JUDGES RULE An intern who says she was forced to work for free at Poundland as part of a government scheme has won her appeal, leaving the coalition’s back-to-work schemes in tatters. Cait...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 31, 2013 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
GOOD GRADES ARE WORTHLESS WITHOUT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE, SAY UK’S BIG GRADUATE RECRUITERS Graduates who worked hard on their studies but spent their summers doing bar work or a shop job will miss out on the best graduate jobs in 2013, analysts have said. In an...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 24, 2013 | Business, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
GRADUATE VACANCIES AND SALARIES WILL RISE IN 2013, NEW SURVEY PREDICTS There could finally be some good news on the horizon for the UK’s job-seeking graduates – a new survey of the country’s top employers suggests that the number of vacancies will...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 11, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
PRET A MANGER WORKERS MUST APPEAR “AUTHENTICALLY HAPPY” – FOR £6.25 AN HOUR The sandwich chain Pret A Manger has been accused of making unreasonable demands on their young workers, expecting them to be all smiles at all times – despite earning...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 8, 2013 | Unpaid internships, Wages
“COMPLIANT, SILENT AND MOSTLY FEMALE” – FEMINIST BLOGGER NOTES SIMILARITIES A blogger for a feminist website has suggested that interns are the new housewives, highlighting the parallels between “the precarious nature of their careers”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 3, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Wages
DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEES SET TO TURN ON EMPLOYERS AS WORKLOADS RISE WHILE WAGES FALL Graduates lucky enough to be in work can expect 2013 to be a “hard year of slog” which will result in a “simmering distrust of bosses”, according to a new report...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 2, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
CAN YOU AFFORD TO GET TO WORK? Low-paid workers – including graduates at the start of their careers – will be disproportionally impacted by large increases to train ticket prices introduced today, experts have warned. The average season ticket will...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 23, 2012 | Careers advice, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
FESTIVE SALES JUMP FOR ‘HOW TO GET A GRADUATE JOB IN A RECESSION’ – HAVE YOU GOT YOUR COPY YET? Sales of How to Get a Graduate Job in a Recession – the book by this website’s founder Tanya de Grunwald – have jumped just before...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 21, 2012 | graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Housing, Unpaid internships, Wages
NINE IN TEN CAN’T AFFORD PRESENTS OR TRAVEL TO CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS Christmas is looking bleak for unemployed young people, according to new figures, for which over 400 NEETS (16-24s not in employment, education or training – including graduates) were...
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