[08 JUN] PAPER CUT
AI is being called “intern-level.” Entry-level jobs are evaporating. McKinsey’s bots make decks faster than your grads. And Gen Z? They’re networking like it’s a survival sport. Welcome to the economy where “future-proof” just means “not fired yet.”
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Welcome to the Career Hunger Games
We’ve said it before, but it’s never felt more urgent: if you’re early in your career, you’d better be early to everything, especially the AI conversation.
This week, we watched junior jobs quietly disappear, networking become the new lifeline, and tech execs openly recommend skipping whole degrees in favour of skills they haven’t even defined yet.
Even McKinsey is letting robots do the grunt work. Microsoft is still slashing roles. And in case you were hoping wellness culture might balance the chaos, spoiler: it’s become yet another performance metric in disguise.
Here’s what you need to know this week, minus the corporate euphemisms.
