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(It's not just you)

You graduated. You tailored your resume. You did an unpaid internship. Then you applied to 100 jobs and heard... nothing.

You aren't alone. A lot is changing in the world. Our mission at DearFutureBoss is to explain what's happening and help guide you.

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One in four people looking for work has been unemployed for at least six months.

One in four people looking for work has been unemployed for at least six months. SOURCE: WALL STREET JOURNAL/Spencer Platt/Getty Images

42%
recent grads "underemployed"
-17%
entry-level jobs since 2019
93%
jobs exposed to AI

"Since earning her degree, Madia has applied for more than 300 jobs. Despite two internships, a strong GPA, and student loans, she remains unemployed. She told CNN she felt unprepared... not because she hadn’t worked hard, but because the market she’d prepared for no longer exists."

Source: CNN Business, “Degree in Hand, Jobs Out of Reach,” January 2025

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How AI is changing many entry-level jobs

Marketing

AI can now auto-generate copy and visual assets, shifting entry-level marketers from content creation to data-driven campaign orchestration and prompt engineering.

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Software Engineering

Developers are pivoting from writing boilerplate code to reviewing and integrating AI-generated components and agentic systems.

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Finance

Analysts are moving away from manual data entry and spreadsheets toward interpreting AI-generated performance and risk assessments.

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Real stories from the market

The CS major who's bartending, the MBA processing returns at Costco, the poli sci grad who watched her AmeriCorps position get defunded on Zoom. The messy, honest, non-LinkedIn version of what's really happening.

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Understand what's happening

Which jobs are the most exposed to AI? Which sectors are hiring more entry-level workers? What skills are needed to get hired? 

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Make AI work for you

Cognizant's new report, "New Work, New World 2026," reveals that AI is transforming work much faster than previously projected. To keep up, we all need to make AI learning a habit.

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