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While they trade in the campus for the labor market, graduates from a fresh faces quickly gleam. From north -America to Europe, university lavers struggle to find suitable work. The unemployment rate for Recent graduates In the US, for the first time it has been consistent above the national level since the COVID-19 Pandemie. In the EU, the employment rate of 15 to 25-year-olds has fallen over the past two years. Even the crème de la crème is struggling. The percentage of MBA students from Harvard Business School and Mit Sloan without a job offer three months after graduation has risen sharply since 2021.
The rise of artificial intelligence is a factor. In the US, technical jobs at the entry level come under pressure because coding tasks are automated. The unemployment rate for computer technology graduates is 7.5 percent; The national rate is 4.1 percent. In Great Britain, the Big Four Accountancy companies have cut back on the early employees of the early career in recent years. Economists and recruiters think that higher costs in British professional service providers encourage to experiment with AI in more administrative tasks that are usually performed by juniors.
But the fate of graduates dates from before the rise of large language models in the workplace. Other structural developments play in the game. As more young people around the world choose to go to university, the competition is picked up. In Canada, a popular destination for young graduates, the unemployment rate for people younger than 25 with post-secondary education was 11.2 percent in the first quarter. Last year in the UK there were an average of 140 applications per job graduated – the highest in three decades, according to the Institute of Employers.
As the supply of learned graduates has increased, the demand has come under pressure. Investigation by indeed, a search for the search for work, it appears that the share of American vacancies that at least require a bachelor’s degree has fallen over the past five years. As far as the public sector is concerned, government services are pressed in cash-Trapped advanced economies. Multinationals with large graduated programs have also developed worldwide capacity centers in cheap hubs such as India, where they outsource more skilled roles, such as data analysis, rather than just back-office functions.
The recent economic cycle has also not been friendly to recent graduates. Many professional services and technology companies that hire in the post-Pandemic years, assuming that activity would bounce back faster than it. Since then, recruitment rounds have been modest. The demand for investment banking analysts and newly qualified lawyers has also remained behind moderate global mergers and acquisition activities. Global economic uncertainty makes it difficult for companies to plan investments and to accept cycles.
Even if the economic environment improves, graduates will still fight with the rise of AI in the workplace and competition for entry tracks. Ensuring that students have a better understanding of prospects after graduation, would help them make wiser course choices. Universities and the private sector will have to work more closely if courses must evolve with the changing work requirements. Nevertheless, companies and governments have to initiate support for training for adults and lifelong learning; Three -year -old degrees can quickly become outdated. The travails of university graduates must also encourage more investments in non-degree vocational training and internship opportunities, as companies have long since called.
An excess of under -processed elites is bad for society and the economy. To ensure that it is not a function, education must evolve from a ticket to a job to a toolkit with skills for a changing world.
