by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 31, 2012 | Business, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Wages
NEW FIGURES SOUND IMPRESSIVE – BUT COME MAINLY FROM BIG CITY FIRMS Graduate pay is set to rise to £26,000 this year, according to a new survey – but how many people do you know that are earning that much money? Does your salary even come close? The...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 20, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
VALUE OF A GOOD REFERENCE TUMBLES, AS REFEREES ADMIT THEY’RE TO SCARED TO BE HONEST Graduates who have worked hard to get good references from their university tutors and employers may have wasted their time, it has been suggested. Worse still, candidates from...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 15, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
AND CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL INTERNSHIPS THREATENS SMALL LABELS, SHE COMPLAINS A fashion designer has angered graduates by appearing to suggest that fashion interns should work for the “love,” not money. She claimed it was difficult for the fashion industry to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 6, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
FOUR IN TEN RETAILERS PLAN TO LAY OFF YOUNG STAFF Graduates who have taken shop jobs as a temporary solution because they can’t find graduate roles have been warned that even those jobs aren’t safe. The CBI has said that 40% of retailers plan too axe shop...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 30, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
FLIP BURGERS TO SAVE UP TO WORK UNPAID, SAYS RUTHLESS CEO OF NEW AGENCY OFFERING PAID-FOR INTERNSHIPS The founder of a new website which charges people to intern for free has claimed his company offers a useful and valuable service to young jobseekers, by charging...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 31, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BOSSES EARN YOUR MONTHLY WAGE IN JUST ONE HOUR! New research has revealed that the bosses of many top companies earn more in an HOUR than many of their young employees earn in a MONTH. The average executive earns £1,406 per hour – while the average chief...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 25, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
WHY WON’T THEY GIVE US A STRAIGHT ANSWER ABOUT THEIR POLICY ON INTERNSHIPS? *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The biggest challenge we have encountered with our Pay Your Interns campaign is getting big brand’s press offices to respond to our questions about their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 4, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
…YET TELLS US IT “DOES NOT HAVE AN INTERNS SCHEME” Tesco told Graduate Fog that it “does not have an intern scheme” — 10 days before the supermarket was forced to remove adverts for 145 unpaid “customer assistance”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 29, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
…BUT ARE THEY TELLING THE TRUTH? British Airways has insisted that the company “does not employ interns” — yet we have found evidence that this might not be true. When approached as part of our Pay Your Interns campaign, a BA spokesperson told...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 14, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUT ARE THEIR COMPETITORS AS WELL-BEHAVED? The British advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) has become the first Pay Your Interns target to tell Graduate Fog that the company pays its interns the National Minimum Wage (£5.93 an hour, rising to £6.08 from 1...
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