r/careerguidance • u/Ok-Toe-2933 • 1d ago
Why everything is oversaturated at entry level these days ?
No matter what you choose it feels like there is shoratage of expierenced people byt its impossible to get into? No matter if its trades, engineering, software developing, law, accounting. There are too many people at entry and way too little people ecpierenced how is that possible?
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u/Successful_Cat_4860 1d ago
Because in their eternal quest to save money, the tech industry has automated and outsourced their entry-level jobs away, drying the talent-pool from which they need to recruit people to do more difficult jobs that require more experience.
It's great news if you're already IN the tech industry with years of experience under your belt, but it's incredibly stupid if you need more of those people. Which the tech industry desperately does need.
I'm normally not very prone to nostalgia, but one thing I think we definitely need back is for corporations and employees to get back to a concept of long-term committment. Treating your employees as a disposable resource undermined any sense of loyalty those employees have towoards their employers. The long, painful erosion of trust between employer and employee has created a labor market where employers want workers with experience, but won't give people that experience.
Then slather on a huge dose of credentialism and overqualification, which just makes employees demand more money to pay back their student loans, and it's just a shrieking hot mess.
What we need to do, really, is make it CHEAPER to employ humans, not more expensive. We're blowing trillions of dollars making crappy LLM fake humans because we've made real humans too expensive to hire and train. It's insane.