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College grads compete with AI for entry-level jobs

From resume bots to automated hiring systems, AI is complicating the job search for recent college grads. The Wall Street Journal’s Lindsay Ellis tells CNN’s Audie Cornish about the challenges young professionals are facing.

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Overeducated and underemployed: Why a diploma no longer guarantees success

An oversaturated market is hard on workers with and without degrees.

“Go to college, get a good job.” It’s advice that’s at the foundation of the American dream. However, for many adults today — specifically young graduates — it’s not playing out as they would have hoped.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank, in March 2025, the unemployment rate for college graduates aged 22–27 hit 5.8%, compared to an overall unemployment rate of just 4.2%. This 1.6 percentage point gap is the largest disparity between young graduates and the general population in over 30 years – excluding the temporary pandemic-related spike in 2021.

One reason is that too many jobs now require degrees that they never used to. Not because the work got harder — but because more people have degrees.

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