The unemployment rate for recent grads? 📉

At an all-time high because of AI.

A new study shows that almost 6% of recent college grads in the U.S. are unemployed, the highest rate since 2021 outside of the pandemic. 

The main reason: companies are leveraging AI instead of hiring new employees. 

↳ What do you need to know? 
↳ How can students get the experience in AI that employers desperately want? 
↳ Should employers be hiring recent grads, whose colleges likely banned AI? 

EP 562: How Will New Grads Get a Job with AI? What You Need to Know

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Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. AI's Impact on Graduate Unemployment
2. University AI Skills Gap
3. Corporate AI Quiet Firing Trend
4. Future Workforce and AI Integration
5. Structural Collapse in Entry-Level Hiring
6. Greedy Fortune 500 CEO Practices
7. Transformation in Knowledge Work
8. Parental Actions for AI Education

Timestamps:
00:00 AI Impact on Recent Grad Jobs

03:06 AI's Impact on Job Market

06:09 Tech Shift Fuels Grad Unemployment

10:25 Higher Education's Imminent Decline

14:48 Innovation Stifled by Educational Leaders

18:06 "Changing Employment Reality"

21:57 Delayed Impact in Higher Education

25:18 "Urgent Need for AI Policies"

26:15 "Faculty: AI Literacy Resources Lacking"

29:31 Rethinking Private Company Practices

33:17 Embrace AI: Unlearn and Innovate

37:43 Demand AI in Education

42:17 AI Tools and Job Search Insights

45:05 "Consider Transferring if AI Banned"

47:23 Call Out Corporate Greed

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