{"id":99003,"date":"2026-08-10T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99003"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:24:43","slug":"new-grads-have-to-compete-with-ai-for-entry-level-roles-hiring-managers-say-ewen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/08\/10\/new-grads-have-to-compete-with-ai-for-entry-level-roles-hiring-managers-say-ewen\/","title":{"rendered":"New grads have to compete with AI for entry-level roles, hiring managers say [Ewen]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrdive.com\/news\/new-grads-have-to-compete-with-ai-for-entry-level-roles-hiring\/825810\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>New grads have to compete with AI for entry-level roles, hiring managers say<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from hrdive.com by Lara Ewen<br \/>\n<em>Nearly half of organizations now ask a senior worker plus AI to do the work of several entry-level grads, per a new report.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dive Brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hiring managers in the U.S. are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/class-of-2026-college-graduate-hiring-report-302828328.html\">betting on artificial intelligence over new graduates<\/a>, with 48% saying they would rather invest in AI tools than hire and train a recent college graduate, according to a Friday report from ResumeTemplates.com.<\/li>\n<li>The job market does still have space for 2026 graduates, and 65% of hiring managers said they planned to hire the same number or more this year compared to last year, per the report. However, 23% said they expected to hire fewer 2026 grads this year or none at all, and 12% didn\u2019t know how many they would hire.<\/li>\n<li>Most hiring concerns centered around workplace skills rather than credentials. Nearly 70% of hiring managers said they had \u201cat least one character concern about recent grads,\u201d including 33% who cited \u201ca lack of work ethic.\u201d Another 76% said recent grads required assistance understanding basic documents such as memos, contracts and budgets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New grads have to compete with AI for entry-level roles, hiring managers say &#8212; from hrdive.com by Lara Ewen Nearly half of organizations now ask a senior worker plus AI to do the work of several entry-level grads, per a new report.\u00a0 Dive Brief: Hiring managers in the U.S. are\u00a0betting on artificial intelligence over new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,174,86,209,823,855,480,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-credentialing","category-skills","category-society","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99004,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99003\/revisions\/99004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}