Graduate Jobs Have Dropped Nearly 50% In A Year As AI Takes Over
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Graduate Jobs Have Dropped Nearly 50% In A Year As AI Takes Over
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Graduate job vacancies have dropped by almost half in a year as employers replace entry-level roles with AI, with some firms cutting junior hiring by 80% in a quarter.
- 01. One jobs site found just over 8,000 graduate vacancies in July, down from over 15,000 the year before, and big tech has cut fresh-graduate hiring by more than half in three years
- 02. Employers are restructuring remaining junior roles with senior-level skills - what researchers are calling seniorisation
Graduate job vacancies have dropped by almost half in the space of a single year, with employers replacing entry-level roles with AI rather than hiring junior staff. Some companies that adopted generative AI cut entry-level hiring by as much as eighty percent in a single quarter.
