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# Congrats on the Degree—Now Compete With a Chatbot
- URL: https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/congrats-on-the-degree-now-compete-with-a-chatbot/
- Published: 2025-05-05T18:54:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-27T05:23:33.000Z
- Description: Your $200,000 degree might now qualify you to lose a job to a language model. Welcome to the AI-shaped job market.
- Author: Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP
- Tags: News, #seo-post-1

Your $200,000 degree might now qualify you to lose a job to a language model. Welcome to the [AI](https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-speaker/)\-shaped job market.

The job market for recent college grads is shrinking—fast. The New York Fed reports 5.8% unemployment, and even elite MBAs are struggling. Why? Three signals flash yellow.

First, pandemic aftershocks and tech layoffs have dried up entry-level roles. Second, the ROI on college degrees is falling, employers are less impressed than they used to be. And third, and most alarmingly, AI might be replacing the very tasks new grads train to do: writing, researching, and analyzing.

- Job postings for programmers have halved since 2022
- The “recent-grad gap” just hit a 40-year low
- AI is quietly eating white-collar entry-level work

In the age of intelligence, survival isn’t about credentials, it’s about reinvention. I see a deeper issue: Are we equipping young people to adapt faster than machines evolve? What would you teach every graduate to stay relevant in a world run by algorithms?

Read the full article on [Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market](https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/job-market-youth/682641/?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com).

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