by Tanya de Grunwald | May 31, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
WOW – ANOTHER JOB BOARD ANNOUNCES ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ POLICY AGAINST DODGY EMPLOYERS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* A second major UK jobs website has announced that it will refuse to advertise unpaid internships that appear to break the minimum wage law....
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 | Dec 13, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
GRADUATE FOG CHALLENGES THE PUBLISHER WHO DEMANDS EVERYTHING – AND PAYS NOTHING Want to work days, nights and weekends – for no wage at all? Prepared to abandon family commitments and holidays to work for free? This – and more – is what one...
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 | Jun 28, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
WHOSE SIDE IS PROSPECTS ON? Graduate Prospects – supposedly the “official” graduate careers website, recommended as the go-to resource for students and graduates by every university in the UK – is promoting unpaid internships to its users,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 23, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
JOIN ‘JUSTICE FOR INTERNS’, OUR NEW CAMPAIGN Have you interned for a well-known brand, celebrity or a high-profile MP? Then we want to hear from you! Graduate Fog and Intern Aware today launch Justice for Interns. This historic campaign will see the big...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 4, 2012 | Careers advice, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
SHOCK AS UNPAID, THREE-MONTH PLACEMENT SCOOPS PRESTIGIOUS ‘BEST INTERNSHIP’ PRIZE An internship lasting 12 weeks, involving real work and paying only travel and lunch expenses has been awarded the prestigious “Graduate Internship of the Year”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 12, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
BYLINES, CONTACTS, FREE TICKETS AND MEALS WERE FAIR REWARD FOR INTERNS’ WORK, HE CLAIMS A company founder has angered graduates by insisting that young people would shoot themselves in the foot if unpaid internships were banned. He also suggested that interns...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 2, 2011
OR WOULD THAT LIMIT ACCESS TO ONLY THOSE ‘IN THE KNOW’? These days, it’s hard to find a job board that isn’t plastered with ads for unpaid internships. While the internships themselves are often illegal, advertising them seems not to be. But...
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...
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