Gen Z is often derided as a lazy, unambitious generation of workers uninterested in climbing the corporate ladder. But contrary to popular belief, they’re just as determined as millennials or Gen Xers to get their careers off the ground, despite the odds seemingly stacked against them. From AI agents taking over entry-level roles to employers padding their reputations with “ghost” jobs, the labor market has become the Wild West. Even educators are waving the red flag.
“There are many graduates now that are coming out of universities, which means that there are more people that are graduating necessarily for the jobs that are there,” Rob Breare, CEO of independent U.K. school system Malvern College International, recently said onstage at the Fortune Global Forum conference.
