ZipRecruiter says grad job market is improving even as AI fears grow

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/grad-job-market-ai-ziprecruiter/

Youth Unemployment: A Growing Concern or Shifting Priorities?

Fewer teenagers are taking starter jobs in 2026. This is due to wages, student debt, and young people wanting flexible work.

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https://newsletter.tf/why-fewer-young-people-taking-entry-level-jobs-2026/

Fewer young people are taking starter jobs compared to last year. This is because they want work that gives them freedom and meaning.

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https://newsletter.tf/why-fewer-young-people-taking-entry-level-jobs-2026/

"When publicly available AI tools first arrived, Malan says the expectation was that jobs like call-center roles would be most vulnerable. “But what nobody predicted was that the biggest impact by far would be on programmers,” a trend he attributes to the relatively solitary and highly structured nature of the work. He notes that, while other economic conditions also factor into the job market, the pace of programmer employment decline has accelerated since generative AI came on the scene. In the United States, overall programmer employment fell a dramatic 27.5 percent between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics. But employment for software developers—a distinct, more design-oriented position in the government data—only fell 0.3 percent in the same period.

At the same time, some positions, such as information security analyst and AI engineer are actually growing, Malan says. “There’s been this pretty dramatic readjustment of the job landscape, even with as narrow a field as IT. Within IT, some jobs have exploded, like InfoSec analysts have grown in double digits, whereas programmers declined double digits” over the past few years, he says. (Eventually, Malan says he expects generative AI to affect all intellectual work.)

Job responsibilities also appear to be changing. For recent graduates pursuing roles labeled as software-engineering jobs, “they’re not necessarily just coding,” says Jamie Grant, senior associate director for the engineering team at the University of Pennsylvania’s career services. “There tends to be so much higher-order thinking and knowledge of the software-development life cycle,” as well as a need to work with other parties, such as understanding user and client demands, she says."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-effect-entry-level-jobs

#AI #GenerativeAI #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Automation #EntryLevelJobs

Gen Z’s broken promise: College grads now fighting AI and taking jobs once meant for high schoolers

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/11/gen-z-college-grads-ai-job-crisis/

25 Remote Jobs With No Experience Needed and Companies Hiring Right Now!

Dreaming of landing a remote job but don’t have prior experience? We’ve compiled 25 remote job opportunities suitable for beginners, ranging from customer support and data entry to content writing, marketing, and virtual assistance.

Don’t wait for “perfect timing.” The perfect time is now.

https://jobtit.com/remote-jobs-with-no-experience-needed/

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Harvard Business Review: The Perils of Using AI to Replace Entry-Level Jobs. “We believe slashing entry-level jobs simply to cut costs is dangerously short-sighted—both for companies and society. There is a strong case to be made that organizations must resist the temptation to eliminate them en masse; instead, they should redesign them. There are at least four compelling reasons.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/20/harvard-business-review-the-perils-of-using-ai-to-replace-entry-level-jobs/

Generative AI is hollowing out entry-level jobs, study finds

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5425555

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If you start higher, your lifetime earnings often grow faster. That is why learning how to negotiate an entry-level salary is worth your time.

Read more: https://www.careerreload.com/how-to-negotiate-entry-level-salary/

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