If you’re applying for junior roles right now, you’ve probably noticed something weird: the listings still exist, but the doors just feel heavier to push. Applications go into a void and you see friends with decent CVs getting ghosted.
You’re not imagining it. I’ve covered this in the blog before, when I went through Anthropic’s report on AI’s labor market impact: junior-level roles in AI-exposed occupations are showing a real, statistically significant drop in entry rates for workers aged 22–25. People aren’t getting too laid off (although we have layoffs from big techs, the unemployment rate hasn’t moved significantly), they’re just not getting hired in the first place.
There are less junior positions in Software roles – from the “Canaries in the coal…more
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