During the last five years, LinkedIn asked almost half a million people how they feel about their professional careers.
This year, the results are overwhelming: young people are much more pessimistic than all other age groups. Seeing the headlines, I can’t blame them. Stories do not stop appearing about how difficult it is for the newly university graduates to get their first job.
Since 2023, job offers for recent graduates have fallen more than 35% in the United States, according to some estimates. 63% of the executives surveyed by LinkedIn admitted that it is likely that the AI assume some of the tasks currently performed by the initial level employees.
A 25 -year -old, who has a master’s degree, cost him a lot to find work. To his girlfriend, He has two masters, he is hard to find a paid job in his field.
Are part of the “Generation of rejection”, young adults who send hundreds of curriculums, only to be rejected.
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Everything seems very different from what just a few years ago, When my older children began their professional careers.
There are disagreements on what extent AI is to blame for this situation, but according to the new findings of LinkedIn, workers are worried: the 41% of professionals affirms that the rhythm at which the changes caused by AI are affecting their well -being.
Human beings must be put in the work center.
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In this regard, Aneesh Raman, director of Economic Opportunities at LinkedIn speaks. Recently, he wrote an opinion article for The New York Times about the collapse of the professional staircase and what this means for young people.
In our talk, he gave many practical advice on the skills that, in his opinion, Young people will need to succeed in the coming years, and explained why the professional career is no longer as predictable as before.
There are no need for the employability crisis of recent university graduates. What is happening and how important is it?
It is real and is very significant. Initial level workers and recent graduates face a perfect storm.
On the one hand, there is all the uncertainty of the macroeconomic environment, which is affecting hiring, and on the other hand, the emergence of artificial intelligence is beginning to notice.
All this is causing, for example, that Unemployment between young people and the newly graduated is superior to the national average in the US.
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But this is a time when we are going from static professional trajectories to more dynamic professional trajectories. It is something like “the best of time and the worst of time,” said Charles Dickens.
Really, I think, if you had to choose a moment to start your professional career, this would be a pretty good. As IA develops and we cross disruption and transition to a new economy, there will be more options for people when building their professional careers.
Human beings must be put in the work center.
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Are there some graduates who are suffering more than others? Ten years ago, we all wanted our children to study computer science. Should we now guide them towards other fields of study?
Computing was and remains the paradigmatic example of the knowledge economy. But the knowledge economy is coming to an end and we are entering a new economy.
Last year I wrote an opinion article in The New York Times with our own data on this topic: 96% of the work of a software engineer is likely to be carried out by artificial intelligence in the near future.
This does not mean that the work will disappear, but that it changes what it means to be a computer engineer. We begin to see employers say little paradigmatic such as: “In addition to that title of computational sciences, do you suddenly have studies in philosophy to help me think about the ethical implications of what I am creating?”
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The obvious path used to be: “I have the title, give me the job.” That was great if it had the title, but it was not so much if the title could not be paid or if it did not belong to a privileged community that would provide you with a way to obtain it.
Now, saying “I have the title” does not mean much. You have to explain what that means.
I think that the work in retail sales, for example, will begin to have a value that they did not have in the knowledge economy. If you can say that you worked in a position where you had to demonstrate resilience and adaptability, those are things that employers are looking for.
We are people with different experiences, with a particular type of energy and resilience. That is why they are going to hire us, and being able to expressly express that is something that people can control.
A dependent worker depends today on companies that calculate how to make the transition.
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I saw the results of a survey that made 3,000 executives in the US and 63% of them believed that the AI would absorb basic level tasks. Then, despite the good stories that tell themselves, maybe simply there will be no basic level work because companies are going to give them to AI.
We don’t know. But we do know that the same percentage in that survey said that basic level employees contribute fresh ideas and new ways of thinking that are valuable for business growth.
The same generation that is having Difficulties to achieve its first job is also native to AI and is providing a completely new vision of what companies should do differently to adapt to this new economy.
When a new type of economy arises, and this was so when we went from agricultural work to work in factories, or from factories to offices, the first is disruption. Right now we are in that situation.
On LinkedIn, we have data that indicate that 70% of the average works will have changed by 2030. We will all have new jobs, even if we do not change jobs. But new types of works will also be created. Ten years ago, being influencer was not a job. Twenty years ago, data scientist was not a job.
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So, if you are a beginner worker, yes, at this moment you are at the mercy of the companies that are making calculations how they should make the transition.
Some companies will use old formulas and think it is about reducing the number of employees. Others will realize that we have to incorporate young people to help us create new business lines and to think differently.
What would you say to a 22 -year -old who is graduating from the university and has difficulty finding work, or his worried parents?
The first thing is to be pro-tú.
The history of work, since the first industrial revolution, has been the history of technology at work, not human beings at work.
We have been forming people to be managers of tasks around technology. Now we are going to have to turn it around and put humans in the work center.
You have to really understand what your unique curiosities are and what motivates you. Start understanding how you are going to get to a place where no one overcomes you to be yourself.
Constance Gómez Guasca
Economy and Business Writing
