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6 a.m. You wake up, apply for a job… and get rejected before your coffee’s even ready.
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Not by a human… but by an algorithm that decided your future in seconds. You tweak your CV, rewrite
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your cover letter, hit send again… and again… and again. Hundreds of applications. Hundreds of “we
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were impressed…” followed by “unfortunately…” At first, you blame yourself… maybe you’re
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not good enough. But what if the problem isn’t you at all? What if the system is
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filtering you out before anyone ever sees your name? Because landing your first job
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isn’t just hard… it’s fundamentally broken. I'm Josh and on today's episode of The
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Infographics Show, we're explaining how the entry level job is dead.
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Millions of people are opening rejection after rejection and realizing the brutal truth. It’s
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not about education. It’s not about age, or desired pay, or location or culture.
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Instead, they’ve become victims of the “Experience Paradox.”
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Companies don’t care about school. They want… time, and they want 3 to 5 years of it.
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Therein lies the paradox. Entry-level by definition is not mid-level.
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It’s a classic Catch-22. They want someone experienced for an entry-level job,
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but they won’t give you a chance to get that experience. So how are you supposed to get hired?
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This is becoming the norm in the western world. The current data shows that in the US,
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around 60% of entry-level job offers in industries like IT, marketing,
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or finance all want years of experience… but they aren’t willing to train anyone.
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As an unhappy job seeker wrote on Reddit: “What happened to growing into your role?”
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That’s how economic mobility works. Without it, you’ll get millions of young people stuck at the
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bottom of the corporate ladder with no way up. 20 years ago, economic mobility made sense.
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But 20 years is a long time… and a lot has changed.
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More than ever, hiring managers now think about risk when reading your applications…
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or more likely, when their AI systems read your applications. They’re not thinking about training.
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They’re predicting viability, how fast you can be doing something to enhance their bottom line.
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They’re looking for a sweet spot: Too young, not enough experience means high risk. Too old,
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too much experience, and you’re too expensive, too desperate, or too stubborn.
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As another person wrote on Reddit: “You literally can't win.”
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What companies are ideally looking for is young, experienced but not
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too experienced plug-and-play workers. As a recruitment specialist said in an interview,
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employees must now “hit the ground running.” In other words, the first rung of the employment
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ladder has been ripped away. It’s currently smoldering on the bonfire of progress.
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And it’s not just in the US. In the UK, StandoutCV.com
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looked at almost 49,000 advertisements comprising “43 popular entry-level jobs.”
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51.3% of those jobs wanted experience with an average of 2.7 years. How is
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that even possible when you’re starting out? One of the only solutions is internships.
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These days, students sometimes find themselves interning for months at a time, even a year or
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more. They sometimes take on two or even three different positions. According to Forbes,
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when it comes to predicting how someone will perform in an entry-level job, education,
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references and interviews were much less reliable than performance in an internship. The article
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said hiring managers are, quote, “desperate to avoid” lions on the CV and cats on the job.
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But who can really afford to work for free? Not everyone is blessed with a safety net.
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Nonetheless, without an internship, you’re stuck. Back in the 1980s,
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only 3% of Americans did internships. Today, it’s closer to 50%.
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And if you do an internship, you’re likely to get a job afterward… at least,
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that used to be the case. But what about the other 50%?
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Where do they fit in? That’s why critics have been calling
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internships unethical and unfair. Privileged students with resources fare much better in the
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landscape of job hunting and it’s not always about intelligence, skills or dedication.
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If you’re enjoying this breakdown of why getting your first job is nearly impossible… make sure to
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like, share and subscribe. It won’t fix the problem, but it helps the channel.
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So, with the bottom rung now taken away, and internships now one of the only ways to
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jump up the ladder, some young people are being “locked out” of corporate careers.
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But the fact is, even with an internship, these days there’s no hard guarantee you’ll land a job.
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Because entry-level jobs are disappearing fast. For US graduates aged 22 to 27, unemployment is
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now 5.7%, well above the overall 4.4% rate. And 40% of those graduates that are in work,
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are doing jobs that don’t even require a university degree.
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Right now, aspiring to a white-collar job… isn’t a great idea
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But it’s going to get worse. The reality is a lot of firms are currently in
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the process of removing most of their entry-level positions. Part of the problem is outsourcing.
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What’s the point in hiring an entry-level American IT worker for between $36,000 and
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$66,000 a year… when you can outsource the same work to someone in India or Vietnam, someone
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experienced who can hit the ground running? What would you do, if you owned a business?
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In 2024, Forbes, writing about outsourcing in the US, said that 37% of small businesses outsource
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at least one IT process. It isn’t going away.
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By 2029, global IT outsourcing is expected to grow by $812.7 billion. The same article said
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that right now, “66% of U.S. companies outsource at least one department.”
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That means something like 300,000 American jobs are being outsourced every year.
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If the foreign worker can speak English well and has some very basic software,
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they’re ready to go. Skilled. Experienced. Hardworking. Low-maintenance. Helping to
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achieve 24-hour productivity. It’s symbiotic perfection.
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They’re hired through a third party, they usually aren’t covered by U.S. employment law. They’re
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employed under the vendor’s local rules. But for young Americans who want to get on the employment
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ladder, outsourcing means more competition. Globalization might work for owners and
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investors but not always for the humble worker. Sure, it might mean you as a consumer receive
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goods and services at a lower price, but for many, that’s not a great trade-off.
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That said, for smaller businesses, outsourcing might be a matter of survival. Need a website?
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A logo? Some video editing or digital marketing and the global freelancer pool might very well
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work in your favor. Outsourcing can help companies get off the ground,
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and better off the ground than a non-starter because you might expand and hire more people.
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But does Big Tech need to outsource so much? The same Big Tech that has recently been
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issuing Return to Office (RTO) orders to aggrieved American staff. About 46% of corporate employees
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who received those orders said they were going to quit. But it turned out that in surveys, 53% of
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companies said they secretly hoped many of their staff would leave, what’s known as “quiet firing.”
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Why? Well, they didn’t need them, but didn’t
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want to go through the hassle of letting them go. Yet according to Gallup in 2023, at least 50% of
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the U.S. workforce was “quiet quitting”, meaning doing the bare minimum knowing they’d be fired. In
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the UK, Gallup said 90% of staff were not engaged with their jobs on their way to quiet quitting.
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But now many of the jobs don’t even exist. They wanted to quit in a time of plenty.
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And those days are over. The companies hold all the cards.
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Either they can outsource your job… or they can hire someone who is willing
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to put in 24-hour shifts, never takes a day off, and very rarely makes a mistake.
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Artificial Intelligence is the new golden child at the office. It’s the
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main reason so many entry-level jobs are going or will go, not outsourcing.
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In 2024, 804 hiring managers at corporate firms were asked some questions about AI. 78% said
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their company expected to reduce hiring of recent graduates because of it. Some said there’d just be
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small cuts, maybe only around 3 to 10% of staff. But others saw carnage coming down the pipeline.
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Over a tenth said reductions could reach 15 to 30%.
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Some said as much as 30 to 60%! What would the office look like? And
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some of those managers went as far as saying they expected to lose 70% of their staff.
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Bear in mind, these were predictions, but lay offs were already happening.
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It’s coming. And it’s going to get ugly. This is the cold reality: if you don’t have
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strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, you’re competing with systems that can
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already do more and more of the entry-level work. The good news? Only 7% of companies said they
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were offering fewer jobs than in the past. This was mostly because of AI,
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but also for financial reasons or because of a lack of faith in young graduates.
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Companies now expect a lot more of their young workers. Internships are becoming a thing of the
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past. Seven out of ten companies said AI could do the job of an intern. So, why bother with them?
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But as you know, internships used to be one of the ways to get on the corporate ladder.
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The World Economic Forum in March 2026 said over the previous 18 months,
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entry-level jobs in the US had fallen by a staggering 35%. And that was mostly down to AI.
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Cheap, reliable, obedient AI. And if Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, is right,
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50% of entry-level white collar jobs will be wiped out within the next few years. He warned that this
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will bring “labor market displacement, and concentration of economic power.”
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He thinks companies should “reassign employees… to stave off the need for layoffs.” The cozy human-AI
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relationship in the workplace looks a lot more like humans being told to clean out their desks.
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The British Standards Institution in 2025 polled 850 company bosses in Australia,
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China, France, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the US. 41% said they’d already replaced
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staff with AI. 43% said they were planning to get rid of more humans in the year ahead.
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At the end of the day, it’s all about productivity and efficiency. The long-term consequences
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of massive job displacement don’t seem to concern the companies doing the displacing.
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Take Amazon, one of the biggest employers in the world with around 350,000 corporate staff
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and a total global workforce of over 1.5 million. The New York Times reported that just in the US,
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Amazon employs around 1.2 million people but it plans to replace a lot of those jobs.
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The New York Times in 2025 reported that it had accessed internal documents that said the
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company plans to eliminate or avoid hiring for approximately 600,000 roles by 2033.
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AI is the reason. About 75% of Amazon’s operations will be automated.
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It’s already started in the office. Last year, the company laid off 30,000
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of its office staff. That followed 27,000 corporate staff laid off in 2023. By 2027,
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Amazon’s automation technologies will mean 160,000 staff in all kinds of roles not being hired.
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It estimates savings of around $12.6 billion. But that’s tens of thousands or eventually hundreds of
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thousands of jobs down the drain of progress. And let’s not forget Mark Zuckerberg,
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the man who only ever wanted to connect people with their loved ones.
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In 2025, he laid off 5% of his staff. By April 2026, he laid off 100s more as his
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company tried to recoup losses after mistakenly assuming people would want to spend all their
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time in the Metaverse. It was a big bet.
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One cost Meta an estimated $80 billion since 2021. The company has now turned to AI investment and
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firing staff. According to Reuters, Zucks might layoff 20% of the Meta workforce in total. He’s
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also throwing $135 billion at AI with a focus on superintelligence, the kind of AI that will
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take away more entry-level jobs. The job-ocalypse is coming…
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Whether you like it or not. Jack Dorsey knows. He recently
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told shareholders he plans to lay off 4,000 of his 10,000 staff. He said that everyone else in tech
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will do it, and he wants to be ahead of the curve. He’s right. In the cut-throat world of business,
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if you lag behind, you go under. The so-called big four consultancy
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firms – Deloitte, EY, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG – have also jumped on the AI bandwagon.
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Collectively, they posted 44% fewer jobs for graduates in 2025 compared with 2023.
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PwC alone plans to cut US entry-level hiring by nearly one-third by 2028. The firm axed
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5,600 jobs in 2024 and more axing will follow. It’s all happened so fast. In the olden days,
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2021, PwC announced that in the next five years it planned to hire 100,000 new workers. Almost
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the exact opposite happened. That shows how much things have changed in such a short time.
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With outsourcing - and increasingly AI - entry-level jobs are becoming almost
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obsolete. The few people who do get hired will need to bring their absolute A-game…
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All while young people are constantly told they’re not ready for the corporate world.
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But which jobs will go first? Recent estimates tell us 80% of
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all call center work for common customer service enquiries will be automated with chatbots by 2029.
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All the jobs that went from the West to Asia in the last 20 years won’t exist over there,
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either. If they do, they’ll be few and far between as the call centers adopt the “hybrid” model,
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where a human steps in when required. Who else is up for the AI Guillotine?
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Clerical and administrative work will be gone. AI and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) are already
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managing invoices, payroll, and basic bookkeeping. Humans will offer oversight, so they might work as
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AI Verification Specialists, but it’s highly unlikely or near impossible that there will
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be just as many overseers as there were staff. Some of the pundits are currently saying that jobs
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will merely transform. For example, paralegals will just become much better when they have a
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robot assistant. This is the “Augmentation” Argument, that says we won’t be replaced,
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but will be given “superpowers.” The problem with this argument is
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it is based on a lot of… well, guesswork. A member of Anthropic’s economic advisory
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council said in an interview in The Atlantic that even the tech leaders don’t know what
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will happen. He kind of said they were winging it. The same article said the same CEOs in 2025 would
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openly talk about AIs effect on the job market. Now they’ve suddenly gone suspiciously quiet.
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Realists say companies do what’s good for their revenue and their shareholders. What happens to
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the populace is an “afterthought.” To be sure, politicians may have to introduce policies to
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limit the carnage, but right now, there’s still no xxxword about what those policies might look like.
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The one thing we do know is the entry-level jobs are already becoming the first to go.
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Whether it’s engineering, basic coding, data entry, scheduling,
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basic architecture, SEO-type marketing, or writing basic blogs, a computer will do it.
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Routine. Rule-based. Digital. Low-risk. You should consider those jobs already gone.
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To survive, you will need to not just have impressive cognitive skills and originality,
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but also AI literacy. One, without the other, won’t work in this new demanding reality. But
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this still doesn’t change the fact you can’t get your foot on the bottom rung of the ladder.
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And it’s worse right now because Gen Z is having to scrap it out with all
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the millennials who recently lost their jobs. They, too, are going for entry-level positions.
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During the years of the pandemic, E-commerce expanded. Streaming surged. Remote work tools
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advanced. In a nutshell, the digital world exploded as we all settled in for the new
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normal. It was the era of The Great Reset where we would harness “the innovations of the Fourth
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Industrial Revolution.” The problem is the
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future that was envisaged didn’t arrive. As the Metaverse flopped, growth slowed down
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and interest rates rose. Suddenly big firms were wheeling their chopping blocks into the office.
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Growth turned into efficiency. Cut backs. Apologies and excuses. That left Millennials
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out in the cold. Gen Z rose up in this storm of corporate chaos as Millennials were told
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they were surplus to requirements. It should come as no surprise then,
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that 43% of Gen Z workers are now participating in the gig economy. That’s a rough estimate. It’s
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the same with Millennials. Depending on the source, either 38%, or 45%, or even up to 78%
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of Millennials are now earning income from gigs. Some do it to supplement their income. Some love
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the flexibility, but for many, it’s not a matter of choice. In 2024, the LA Times said 38% of
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all Americans had hustled in the gig economy contributing $1.27 trillion to the economy.
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The article suggested the government has a responsibility to make such work more sustainable.
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Because right now, it’s not. There are very few protections for gig-workers.
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So-called precarious work is becoming the norm. We are told that more people are at
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risk of exploitation. What’s called the “hustle culture” doesn’t usually come with safety nets.
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Workers can find themselves putting in 12-hour shifts, working multiple jobs, just to get by.
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It’s one of the reasons so many are moving abroad. Young people, even middle-aged people,
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are saying if they have to hustle, they’ll hustle where it works best for them.
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In 2025, according to the Digital Nomad Forecast, 39% of Gen Z and Millennials
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stated they were going to work abroad in the next year. As a writer on the
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topic said, “Gen Z is fast becoming the most internationally mobile generation in history.”
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One of the countries which had been hit the hardest is the UK, a country
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where the media is talking about an “exodus.” The BBC cited the Office for National Statistics
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(ONS) in 2025 when it said 195,000 people under the age of 35 had made the move abroad from the
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start of the year to June. In another survey, 75% of young Brits said they’d consider leaving.
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US data shows the numbers have been increasing in the US, too. According
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to an article in Quartz citing recent data, the “new American dream is to leave America.”
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A recent survey said that 17% of Americans are planning to leave and another 5% were
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already on their way, each looking for a better quality of life. A poll revealed
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England is one of the leading choices, and it looks like England could need them. Canada,
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Italy and Australia were also favorites. Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, Spain, and Portugal
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are also popular haunts for digital hustlers. So many young people leaving can lead to a brain
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drain. Governments might not like it and may start putting pressure on other countries or emphasizing
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the dangers and pitfalls of living abroad. But these are the effects of globalization.
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It’s what hustling looks like when gainful employment at large companies is scarce. People
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will go where they’re provided with the best life. But as the saying goes, the grass can look a lot
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greener somewhere else. Living without safety nets and constant insecurity isn’t for everyone. That
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said, western countries, especially the US and UK, are still hemorrhaging young
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people… and it’s going to get a lot worse. A report said in 2023 there were about 35
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million digital nomads with an estimated 18.1 million from the US. But by 2030,
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it’s estimated there will be 60 million. If corporations had their own way,
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they’d employ as few people as possible. The endgame is a billion dollar firm with a board
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and some executives and a giant server farm of AI agents. Maximum productivity. Minimal costs.
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That’s the future. They don’t need you. They don’t want you.
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So if companies don’t need people anymore… where did all the jobs go? That’s exactly
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what we break down in Why the US is Running Out of Jobs. Or click on this video instead.
