by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 22, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
CHANGE TO THE LAW WILL CREATE JOBS, CLAIMS CONSERVATIVE MP A Conservative MP has suggested that workers should be allowed to ‘opt out’ of their right to be paid the National Minimum Wage, claiming that it would help to reduce unemployment as businesses...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 16, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
ONE IN TEN BUSINESSES PLANS TO CULL YOUNG WORKERS Worrying news reaches Graduate Fog that businesses are planning to reduce their numbers of junior employees – suggesting that young people could be the first in the firing line in a new round of redundancies. And...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 15, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
HIGH STREET RECRUITER FAILS TO APOLOGISE FOR SEEKING FORTY SIX INTERNS, PAYING WELL BELOW MINIMUM WAGE Since this website began, we have seen some shockingly brazen behaviour by big name brands, when it comes to their treatment and payment of their interns. But this...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 1, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
PLACEMENTS IN SYDNEY, BEIJING AND SHANGHAI COST UP TO £4,000 Growing numbers of recent graduates are paying thousands of pounds to companies that specialise in securing unpaid work placements overseas. The graduates pay up to £4,000 – often not including flights...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 17, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
WHEN WILL EMPLOYERS STOP BASHING YOUNG WORKERS – AND START INVESTING IN TRAINING AGAIN? The Confederation of British Industry has declared that applicants for graduate jobs are failing to meet business’ high expectations. Susan Anderson, CBI director for...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 12, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
CHARITY’S ASTOUNDING ARROGANCE STUNS GRADUATE FOG In the last few months, Graduate Fog has seen some shocking displays of arrogance among those organisations which continue to expect young people to work for nothing, in the form of unpaid internships. But folks,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 29, 2011 | Careers advice, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
POOR ADVICE IS OFFERED AT THE WRONG TIME AND PLACE, SAYS EXPERT **This is a guest post by Anne Wilson, careers coach and founder of Graduate Job Mentor** How prepared will this year’s 350,000 new graduates be for the real world? Do they know what it takes to get...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 11, 2011 | Careers advice, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
LONDON NEWSPAPER THE EVENING STANDARD KICKS YOUNG JOBLESS WHEN THEY’RE DOWN The London Evening Standard has shocked Graduate Fog by publishing an article which implies that youth unemployment is the fault of young people, not the government (which many of you...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 7, 2011
NEW! GRADUATE FOG PUBLISHES SATIRICAL GLOSSARY TO HIGHLIGHT THE DISTORTED MADNESS OF UNPAID INTERNSHIPS INTERN Young, educated employee working a full-time graduate job unpaid, simply because their cheap-arse employer has labelled it an ‘internship.’...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 2, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
INDUSTRY REGULATOR INSISTS THEY ARE ‘VOLUNTEERS’ — AND SHOULDN’T EXPECT PAY The independent body which regulates the charity industry has shocked Graduate Fog by announcing it has no intention of intervening in the row about unpaid internships...
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