For Gen Zers entering the job market, the experience has likely been more rocky than they might have wished. Entry-level hiring has slowed, competition has intensified, and the once-reliable promise that a degree would translate neatly into a stable career has started to fray.
Some CEOs, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Ford’s Jim Farley, have even used their platforms to warn AI and automation pose existential threats to many entry-level roles.