“Ho £ 90k in debito studentesco – per cosa?” I laureati condividono i loro problemi di caccia al lavoro in mezzo alla Fallout AI | L’intelligenza artificiale non sta solo portando via i lavori entry-levels, sta aiutando migliaia a fare domanda per lo stesso lavoro con quasi lo stesso CV
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jul/13/student-debt-graduates-share-job-hunting-woes-ai-fallout
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All those bang average arts graduates getting spat out of uni and looking for a city job are going to be in for a shock. Frightening future given our higher education model!!
It’s a shame academia is not in line with employers and the job market.
We have some of the best universities in the world and produce a lot of extremely good research for a relatively small country. So why have we not got the high-tech industry to utilise these institutions and the talented workers they produce? It seems like with an abundance of graduates seeking work, it should be relatively easy to expand some of these industries with a good industrial strategy and that not doing so is a huge waste of one of the few things we do very well.
We’re incentivising anti-intellectualism.
Specialist research in medicine, the environment, engineering, tech etc is what leads to innovation.
At this point people cannot afford to pursue their interests or it’s simply not worth it and, in the long-term, the opportunity cost will be huge.
Editing to add that I wouldn’t dismiss the arts either. British film, music, books, theatre, art etc are some of our best exports.
>I went to university and applied to be a barista, and was rejected for lack of experience
These articles always have quotes like this and it’s like….why is this a surprise? A) they know you are using the job as a stop gap and will leave and B) a degree has zero bearing on your ability to make a cup of coffee and operate a till. It also comes across as arrogant and dickish.
It is bad for UK and EU graduates, it’s even terrible for international graduates. I wish they were aware and not spent 100k or more to come to study in this country, esp if they are from poorer country, UK will take their money, pay their bosses big bonuses and leave you for stranded.
If any prospective international students is looking at this comments, please only come to UK if you have spare money and want education from one of the prestigious universities. If you are thinking of better life and opportunities, you’d find it better to get that money and invest in your own or other countries.
Also, don’t fall into sweet words of agents, they are agents of universities and get paid by them, so they work for best interests of the universities and not yours.
All of those “Same-CV-applicants” will be disregarded. It’s like people who say “I’ve applied for hundreds of roles and got no interviews!”, all that means is your applications are likely identical and terrible. Recruiters aren’t stupid, a decent CV/Cover letter should be completely unique for each role you apply for.
It AI causes lay offs for those with jobs/careers. Its going to be shock to some who cannot transfer to a new job from scratch because entry level and middle end jobs become AI driven
Entry level work was already shit to get in or get paid for. Now the door might be shut for good
Massive student debts and zero entry level jobs has been a thing for at least 15 years now, that’s not a new thing with AI
Copy pasting from AI gets you the same results, shocking! It’s like seeing the same 3 word template CVs from applications back in the day.
AI has some good points, getting unique responses isn’t one of them. It can be used to make sure you haven’t missed the basics, it can be used to rattle off basic email to save you time. Applying to jobs or anything where you need to stand out shouldn’t be a generic form filling exercise.
If you’re going to do things like a PhD without a solid plan for what happens after, you really need to re-evaluate. If you aren’t spending time making the connections that will either let you stay in academia or walk into a career at the end of it, you’re going to have a bad time.
I do sympathise to an extent, but it is very well advertised at this point the amount of debt you’ll have at the end of it. Especially if you’re just doing it because you haven’t decided on a career and so going through the Masters->PhD route let’s you put it off a bit longer.
At the very least you should educate yourself on the salary you’re likely to have at the end of it – less that if you’d just got an undergrad and spent four years in industry in most cases.
I recently graduated with a First in software eng, with a year of experience on placement, and I still haven’t landed a grad job after applying for months. I feel for anybody going through it too!
AI isn’t just taking away entry levels jobs, it’s helping you write this article
I am the only one noticing the typical ai format “it’s not just X, it’s X”
Or
“This isn’t just X, it’s straight up X”
In everything you read, news articles, Reddit posts, even in the comment section of a screenshot of a post reposted.
Bloody everywhere.