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How To Get Hired During the AI Apocalypse<\/strong><\/a> — from kathleendelaski.substack.com by Kathleen deLaski
\nAnd other discussions to have with your kids on the way to college graduation<\/em><\/p>\n

A less temporary, more existential threat to the four year degree: AI could hollow out the entry level job market for knowledge workers (i.e. new college grads). And if\u00a056% of families were saying college \u201cwasn\u2019t worth it\u201d in 2023,<\/a>(WSJ), what will that number look like in 2026 or beyond? The one of my kids who went to college ended up working in a bike shop for a year-ish after graduation. No regrets, but it came as a shock to them that they weren\u2019t more employable with their neuroscience degree.<\/p>\n

A colleague provided a great example: Her son, newly graduated, went for a job interview as an entry level writer last month and he was asked, as a test, to produce a story with AI and then use that story to write a better one by himself. He would presumably be judged on his ability to prompt AI and then improve upon its product. Is that learning how to DO? I think so. It\u2019s using AI tools to accomplish a workplace task.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Also relevant in terms of the job search, see the following gifted article:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018We Are the Most Rejected Generation\u2019<\/strong> <\/a>— from nytimes.com by David Brooks; gifted article<\/em><\/span>
\nDavid talks admissions rates for selective colleges, ultra-hard to get summer internships, a tough entry into student clubs, and the job market.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Things get even worse when students leave school and enter the job market. They enter what I\u2019ve come to think of as the seventh circle of Indeed hell. Applying for jobs online is easy, so you have millions of people sending hundreds of applications each into the great miasma of the internet, and God knows which impersonal algorithm is reading them. I keep hearing and reading stories about young people who applied to 400 jobs and got rejected by all of them.<\/p>\n

It seems we\u2019ve created a vast multilayered system that evaluates the worth of millions of young adults and, most of the time, tells them they are not up to snuff.<\/p>\n

Many administrators and faculty members I\u2019ve spoken to are mystified that students would create such an unforgiving set of status competitions. But the world of competitive exclusion is the world they know, so of course they are going to replicate it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And in this column I\u2019m not even trying to cover the rejections experienced by the 94 percent of American students who don\u2019t go to elite schools and don\u2019t apply for internships at Goldman Sachs. By middle school, the system has told them that because they don\u2019t do well on academic tests, they are not smart, not winners. That\u2019s among the most brutal rejections our society has to offer.<\/p>\n

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Fiverr CEO explains alarming message to workers about AI<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from iblnews.org
\nFiverr CEO Micha Kaufman recently warned his employees about the impact of artificial intelligence on their jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n