Charlotte Goodwin
Hi! My name is Charlotte and I am a third year Global Comms and Media student from the University of Portsmouth in the UK! I am on a year exchange here at ECU as part of my dual degree, and major in journalism.
Graduates face uncertain futures in changing job market
With many students coming to the end of their university degrees, is the graduate job market becoming harder for younger people to get into? Are students scared to jump into the real world, or is there simply not enough work out there?
Thank you, I have minor critique about AI, as it is now it’s revolutionised some tasks such as transcription, translation and text to speech, but complex tasks such as Anthropic’s Claude used for coding require knowledge to validate code and ensure there’s no mistakes or unnecessary bloat. Even transcripts generated should be read over for correctness and often reformatted for legibility, which can be seen in Youtube’s auto-caption capability. Machine translation is impossible to validate without bilingual experience.
It would be nice to give a passing mention to the Job Ready Graduate program in its inflation of student debts in the arts, another problem with the HECS system that people entering the workforce and public life deal with in mortgages, loans and such.
Welfare is also a sore spot for many, including myself, used in Australia to punish people for not being employed, but that’s probably more tangential in a tertiary educated cohort.