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In just a few weeks, thousands of students from generation Z will graduate in their respective careers with the hope of get that first job that allows them to start a professional career. However, the current panorama is increasingly complicated for those who seek their first job opportunity.
The Difficulty accessing the labor market Not only does it come for the structural part of an economy shaking by Commercial uncertainty. The AI is already beginning to assume tasks that until now carried out the Practices in practices or Junior employees, which traditionally served as an initial step for the newly graduates.
The staircase has broken. As explained Aneesh Raman, responsible for Economic Opportunities of LinkedIn In an article for The New York Times“The first thing that is being broken is the lowest step of the professional staircase”, a trend that threatens to leave many young people without the possibility of learning and growing in their first years of career. As He predicted Fortune In 2024, the AI already is doing your jobso there is no reason for companies to hire them.
Currently, AI acts mainly as a support tool to lighten the workload of senior employees by automating routine tasks. In great technology, Like AmazonGoogle or Microsoft, are implemented to help their developers do administrative or generation tasks small code fragments. Tasks that until now were part of the learning process of Junior employees.
The Z generation is already noticing it. Chris Hyams, CEO of Indeed, said in the Fortune‘S Workplace Innovation Summit that: “The good news is that there is no job that AI can perform all the skills required. This does not mean that it will not replace the workers, but the AI cannot replace a complete job.”
However, Hyams said that “in approximately two thirds of all works, 50% or more of the skills required are things that the current generative AI can do reasonably well, or very well.” This means that, although AI does not eliminate all positions, it does reduce the need to perform many basic tasks that used to train new employees.
Youth unemployment data in the US. The implantation rhythm of AI in the business field is being faster in the United States than in other countries. According The published by The Atlantic, The New York Federal Reserve He warnedof an increase in unemployment among the newly graduates standing at 5.8% and 6.2% for younger workers. That is, something is happening in the entrance to the labor market.
Although there is still no definitive evidence that AI is the only cause of the weakening of this link in the professional career of the youngest, the trend is clear: the opportunities to learn working from below are disappearing in the sectors where AI is being implemented faster, as companies Like Duolingo or Shopify They are adopting policies that reduce hiring options of the youngest to do those routine tasks if there is the possibility that they can make them an AI.
Ask for qualified employees, but not form them. In parallel to the creation of this training wall imposed by automation, companies from all over the world denounce a growing shortage of qualified labor.
According to recent European Union data collectedby Euronewsthe lack of experienced workers and advanced skills has become one of the main challenges for the economy. This phenomenon creates a paradox: as long as young people do not find opportunities to train in companies from their simpler processes, companies fail to cover their vacancies with qualified personnel.
If this trend is consolidated, in a few years AI will not have left millions of workers without employment. In reality, it will have been the companies themselves who would have prevented the training of qualified personnel and with the necessary experience for supervise the work of AI that is developing.
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