{"id":10284,"date":"2025-09-09T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=10284"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:31:07","slug":"ai-and-entry-level-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/ap\/blog\/ai-and-entry-level-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"How Is AI Affecting Entry-Level Jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Think about your first \u201creal\u201d job. It probably involved a lot of grunt work, right? If you started in finance, you probably searched through endless documents. If you were a junior attorney, you prepared simple legal briefs. And if you were a software developer, you wrote boatloads of basic code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now that artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> has automated so many of these tasks, will entry-level jobs go the way of floppy disks? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depends on who you ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently predicted<\/a> that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years. And Aneesh Raman, LinkedIn\u2019s chief economic opportunity officer, wrote<\/a>, \u201cThere are growing signs that artificial intelligence poses a real threat to a substantial number of jobs that normally serve as the first step for each new generation of young workers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other outlooks aren\u2019t so dire. More than half (58%) of executives in a recent Slack Workforce Index<\/a> expect to hire more<\/em> entry-level workers. Alex Murray, senior director, programs and marketing, of Salesforce\u2019s Futureforce University recruitment team, is equally optimistic about young employees\u2019 future. \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing is that, absolutely, jobs are changing now that things have become more automated,\u201d she said. \u201cBut you have to balance that with the fact that young people coming from universities into the workforce have an advantage the rest of us don\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That advantage? Many new grads had access to AI curricula and AI degrees that equipped them with cutting-edge knowledge. Their AI literacy could be the very thing that helps them thrive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s look at what\u2019s happening and what recent grads can do to beat the odds. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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