"Young people who lost out during the Covid years are now competing for fewer entry-level jobs as the rise of AI chatbots vacuums up graduate roles, and tax rises since the October Budget make it more expensive to hire junior staff. From summer pub shifts to graduate-level City jobs, work opportunities are shrinking, and more candidates are chasing fewer roles.
"The Covid kids who lost their chance to do work experience while at school or suffered socially from living their lives through a screen during key years are now finding it impossible to compete. Many lack the self-esteem needed to sell themselves in interviews."
I am sure those who let themselves be panicked into what turned out to be an overreaction to COVID (as Sweden's more measured approach showed) will regard this as an unfortunate but necessary result. I wonder how many years before the damage lockdown caused fades away.
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