Statement: Short, interesting article on the challenges that young graduates are facing in today’s job market. Touches on how traditional signals of candidate quality, such as transcripts and cover letters, have been weakened by grade inflation and the use of AI to write letters, respectively. Funny enough, employers are also using AI to pore over applications. The end result is a pretty shitty time for recent grads, somewhat unique in what makes it shitty compared to the normal grind and frustration.
textualcanon on
Meta question: what articles and statements get approval on this sub versus not? I posted an article from The Atlantic the other day and provided a paragraph analysis and the mods removed it. I have no idea what makes something okay or not.
BasedTroutFursona on
Not hiring for jobs, but admissions for my wife’s nursing department (second degree accelerated BSN) is getting killed by the same stuff. They keep admitting students with high GPAs from their first degrees who have no business in the program. Can’t study, can’t even pass the first semester pharm and pathophysiology classes. Can’t cite anything in APA format. It’s like they can barely read. I keep telling her she needs to appeal to the dean to get a standardized test added to their admissions criteria.
_Un_Known__ on
I have little doubt in my mind that as AI continues to improve and this arms race of applications ramps up, its only going to get worse and worse for the grad job market.
Speaking anecdotally, I can imagine many more people will pursue even further qualifications and debt (i.e. masters, cfas, etc) in order to distinct themselves in the job market as much as possible. This means less people working as even more people pursue higher education for better prospects. Overall productivity might improve but its abysmal as is
Maximilianne on
Honestly if everyone is using AI why not just automate the whole process so at least the applicants don’t have to waste filling in forms and whatnot
Pretty_Marsh on
Well, good thing a bunch of unemployed young people with too much time on their hands has never worked out poorly for society…
Beat_Saber_Music on
At this point the only guarantee for getting a job is connections to the work place, like a friend or relative managing to help you get in throguh a deal under the table essentially.
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Statement: Short, interesting article on the challenges that young graduates are facing in today’s job market. Touches on how traditional signals of candidate quality, such as transcripts and cover letters, have been weakened by grade inflation and the use of AI to write letters, respectively. Funny enough, employers are also using AI to pore over applications. The end result is a pretty shitty time for recent grads, somewhat unique in what makes it shitty compared to the normal grind and frustration.
Meta question: what articles and statements get approval on this sub versus not? I posted an article from The Atlantic the other day and provided a paragraph analysis and the mods removed it. I have no idea what makes something okay or not.
Not hiring for jobs, but admissions for my wife’s nursing department (second degree accelerated BSN) is getting killed by the same stuff. They keep admitting students with high GPAs from their first degrees who have no business in the program. Can’t study, can’t even pass the first semester pharm and pathophysiology classes. Can’t cite anything in APA format. It’s like they can barely read. I keep telling her she needs to appeal to the dean to get a standardized test added to their admissions criteria.
I have little doubt in my mind that as AI continues to improve and this arms race of applications ramps up, its only going to get worse and worse for the grad job market.
Speaking anecdotally, I can imagine many more people will pursue even further qualifications and debt (i.e. masters, cfas, etc) in order to distinct themselves in the job market as much as possible. This means less people working as even more people pursue higher education for better prospects. Overall productivity might improve but its abysmal as is
Honestly if everyone is using AI why not just automate the whole process so at least the applicants don’t have to waste filling in forms and whatnot
Well, good thing a bunch of unemployed young people with too much time on their hands has never worked out poorly for society…
At this point the only guarantee for getting a job is connections to the work place, like a friend or relative managing to help you get in throguh a deal under the table essentially.