Nobody tells you what it feels like to graduate into silence. You do everything right, you finish the degree, and then nothing happens. You wake up, check your email, and it’s still empty.
“58% of fresh graduates are still looking for their first job after graduation, while only 25% of earlier graduates had been in the same position.
Use of social media platforms for job searching has nearly quadrupled between earlier graduates and fresh graduates (7% to 26%).
LinkedIn has now dethroned traditional job boards as the top job-hunting tool for fresh grads.
Despite facing a tougher job market, today’s fresh graduates report higher levels of confidence when entering the workforce than earlier graduates.
14% of earlier graduates say much of what they learned now feels outdated, with AI cited as a major reason.
Resumes continue to be the part of the job-hunting process where graduates, past and present, struggle most.”
https://www.kickresume.com/en/press/fresh-grads-survey-kickresume/
IBM CUTTING 8,000 JOBS IN LATEST LAYOFFS
AI is destroying the economy.
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) November 4, 2025
58% out of a hundred can’t find work. That’s not a slow market. That’s a wall. These kids are sending out hundreds of applications and getting ghosted by bots. They’re competing against software that reads faster than any recruiter ever could.
“Major layoffs are accelerating across sectors, with Amazon cutting 14,000 jobs, UPS slashing 48,000 positions and Paramount laying off roughly 2,000 workers.
Companies are citing Trump’s tariffs, rising operational costs and massive AI investments as primary drivers of the widespread job cuts.
Worker anxiety about job stability is intensifying as federal employees face cuts and the government shutdown stretches past three weeks.
It’s a tough time for the job market.
Amid wider economic uncertainty, some analysts have said that businesses are at a “no hire, no fire” standstill. That’s caused many to limit new work to only a few specific roles, if not pause openings entirely. At the same time, some sizeable layoffs have continued to pile up, raising worker anxieties across sectors.”
The whole country feels like it’s stuck between layoffs and hiring freezes. Big companies keep blaming tariffs, or inflation, or AI costs, but the result is the same. Doors stay closed. Entry-level jobs vanish first. And somehow it’s always the youngest who pay for “efficiency.”
“Workers see rising wages: AI-skilled workers see average 56% wage premium in 2024, double the 25% in the previous year.
Confounding expectations, data shows job availability grew 38% in the roles more exposed to AI, albeit below the growth rate in less exposed occupations.
Industries ‘most exposed’ to AI saw 3x higher growth in revenue per employee (27%) compared to those ‘least exposed’ (9%).
The skills sought by employers are changing 66% faster in jobs ‘most exposed’ to AI.
LONDON, 3 June 2025 – AI is making workers more valuable, productive, and able to command higher wage premiums, with job numbers rising even in roles considered most automatable, according to PwC’s 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer, released today. The report is based on analysis of close to a billion job ads from six continents.”
AI isn’t killing all jobs, it’s just changing who gets them. People with the right code words on their resumes get 50% raises. Everyone else keeps refreshing the page. The divide isn’t between workers and machines anymore. It’s between those who learned to talk to the machine and those who didn’t have time.
What’s happening now isn’t a crash. It’s a slow fade. Work still exists, but it’s moving somewhere young people can’t reach yet.
And if half of a generation starts adulthood waiting, the country will feel that for a very long time.