{"id":2293,"date":"2026-05-14T10:18:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mberlove.com\/blog\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:18:56","slug":"now-where-are-the-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mberlove.com\/blog\/now-where-are-the-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"“Now Where Are The Jobs?”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Now<\/a>

Maybe it was AI<\/p><\/div>\n

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AI puts the squeeze on new grads \u2014 and the colleges that promised to make them employable<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018I feel helpless\u2019: college graduates can\u2019t find entry-level roles in shrinking market amid rise of AI<\/a><\/p>\n

Recent college graduates face a new obstacle in finding a job: AI<\/a><\/p>\n

Etc.<\/p>\n

It would be unfair and unwarranted to dismiss AI trends as factoring in the reduction of entry-level workforce positions. The ground level of experience in a field is most subject to replacement or automation, even if it eventually becomes replaced by a new kind of entry-level position (e.g. calculator to tabulator to data entry to excel). “The unemployment rate for young college graduates (ages 20\u201324 with a bachelor\u2019s or higher) rose to 9.5% by September 2025 ([11]), nearly double the general adult rate” (IntuitionLabs<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Employment overall appears more chaotic; anecdotal reporting indicates seekers of jobs with some years of career behind them and reasonable prospects feel less certain, and more concerned, though they tend overall to remain employed or to find a commensurable position in a not unreasonable length of time searching. Both employment<\/em> and comfort <\/em>factor in the market, especially in white-collar careers in which technical skills gained via a college education retain primacy, at least for now.<\/p>\n

That this market frustration is not entirely due to AI appears reputably sound to conclude. The straits of unemployment were notably worse during the Covid-19 pandemic; a pandemic can’t be readily compared to a shift in technology but what also appears evident in examining the current changes in hiring with those that came before is that it is not AI or a pandemic or an oil crisis which causes job shortages in a given range but the cultural shifts that accompany them. A company avoids hiring a recent graduate not because AI has replaced that graduate but because the industry has proclaimed that recent graduates are no longer required where AI can replicate those jobs.<\/p>\n

This conclusion appears to be validated statistically and anecdotally across industry reports, and though it is relevant to note where AI does in fact replace an entry-level position and where an organization does not need to hire a new employee for this reason, the broad sweep of changes is of expectations more than of realities — this interpretation is also reasonable, and historically sensible.<\/p>\n

Individuals lose positions when culture shifts. Industries and sectors shift too. It would be also unfair to ignore the realities of impact to each individual. But change is more or less a constant, new jobs are created, new kinds of jobs are created, new sectors are created, and the struggle for employment and comfort in a chosen field may be eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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