Entry-level jobs down by a third since launch of ChatGPT

Okay. It also coincides with the end of the post-pandemic hiring boom and the UK bank rate going from 0.1% to 5.25%. It's kind of funny that reliable data analysis has never been part of the AI hype when you consider that AI is used for data analysis.

Yes, but overall job ads are up. Pay is going up.

But specifically entry level is down significantly since Nov 2022.

All of your points - interest rates, post pandemic hiring boom would apply to market as a whole.

Not saying it’s causation like the article claims, but there’s at least some correlation trend.

An awful lot of graduate positions in the U.K. are things like customer service, account management, paralegal, data analysis.

These categories have seen broad application of AI tools:

- CS, you’ll most likely talk to an LLM for first tier support these days.

- Account management comprises pressing the flesh (human required) and responding to emails - the latter, AMs have seen their workload slashed, so it stands to reason that fewer are required.

- Paralegal - the category has been demolished. Drafting and discovery are now largely automated processes.

- Data analysis - why have a monkey in a suit write you barely useful nonsense when a machine can do the same?

So - yeah, it’s purely correlative right now, but I can see how it being causative is perfectly plausible.