Raw LLM Responses

Old geezer here. I got my degree and found a job after more than a year, in the late 90s. At that time there was no easy path to get a stable job if you had no experience, so I had to work almost for free for a while, until I made that experience and got taken seriously from employers. Not sure where this concept that you get a degree and the job is flying off your desk is coming from; but it is part of the issue, as it is an unrealistic expectation, unless you are very specialized or have very good friends that will get you in. Nothing new to be honest, but what is different is not that people are "more educated" now; but that there are too many people that have a basic education that is not what companies wants. I hired a ton of people in my career, and the constant when looking at resume was the uniformity. I could replace every single junior applicants with another, because they all did the same things and as such, the challenge was in finding those that are worth more than what they are on paper. These days with so many applicants with the same level of competence is normal that you won't find a job. It is already hard for people like me with 30 years of career to find a job, so imagine not having experience at all. How do you solve the issue? Stop taking a degree that teach you stuff you can learn yourself, and instead take specialization paths or get a job even for free in a big tech company. Learn how to work by doing it, not by studying and doing stupid assignments that most of the time are just evaluating how well you can learn something, but not necessarily how better you are compared to another worker doing the same job. Eventually AI will remove entry level jobs so what are kids doing these days? Focusing on what is needed is the key here. Be proactive, look for opportunities to make something that has value for a company, so they may feel compelled to hire you. If you are just another person with the same knowledge and degree of someone else, why would someone hire you? Because you are looking slick and can do a good inteview verbally or on a whiteboard? That was enough 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago; but today it takes way more than that, I am afraid. Somehting similar happens every generation, it happened in the past and workers adapted; so now it is your turn to adapt and learn new things that will give you the edge in a saturated market. If people did it before you, you can do it too, so don't give up and blame it on external factors. Make the difference yourself; endure.