"But now imagine 2 million college graduates applying to an average of, say, 50 or 100 jobs. That’s 100 to 200 million job applications for entry-level positions across the country, every year. It’s impossible for carbon-based Human Resources departments to go through all that.

Derek Thompson

@dkthomp · Twitter · 2025-06-26 14:22 UTC

New essay: Recent grads face a hiring crisis. AI is making it worse. Folks are worried what AI will do to entry-level work in 5 years. We should pay closer attention to how AI has *already* transformed the entire college-to-workforce pipeline—and not all for good.