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Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds

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191 points impish9208 | 5 comments | 02 Sep 25 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.918s | source
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TuringNYC ◴[02 Sep 25 15:28 UTC] No.45104348[source]▶
I live in a community full of high-achieving GenZ who did 4-7 AP courses, studied their butts off for the SAT, got into good universities....only to not find any jobs when they graduate with STEM degrees. A dozen neighbors' kids have been asking me for zero-salary jobs just to get experience.
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koakuma-chan[dead post] ◴[02 Sep 25 15:33 UTC] No.45104430[source]▶
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1. abirch ◴[02 Sep 25 15:35 UTC] No.45104461[source]▶
Frequently people want experience. The new grads are facing a bleak reality with AI and offshoring.
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2. koakuma-chan ◴[02 Sep 25 15:36 UTC] No.45104475[source]▶
Correct if I'm wrong, but from what I observe, lots of job postings have "new grads ok"
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3. abirch ◴[02 Sep 25 15:40 UTC] No.45104545[source]▶
I only saw 3 jobs mentioning new grad (or recent grad) on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093192

  1 "Zigment (https://zigment.ai) | Bangalore / Bengaluru, India | Full-time | ONSITE"

  2 "Rinse | IT Manager / Network Administrator / System Administrator | Hybrid in SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York (Brooklyn), Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Washington DC, or Newark. (Primarily remote with some on-site responsibilities.) | Full-time | https://www.rinse.com"

  3 "CVector | Full Stack Software Engineer | USA | REMOTE | Full-time | $75k – $120/yr + 0.3% – 1%"
maybe I missed a few because I'm not a new grad and I'm happy at my current company
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4. koakuma-chan ◴[02 Sep 25 15:45 UTC] No.45104624{3}[source]▶
If you go to workatastartup.com and select experience 0-1 years, you'll see, coincidentally with the previous number I wrote, about 200 results. Is there something wrong with them? Genuine question, because I tried applying and never got a response.
5. t-3 ◴[02 Sep 25 16:20 UTC] No.45105151[source]▶
Those postings get flooded with applicants, many of them not new grads. New grads are competing with experienced people just to get a foot in the door. Both of those groups have to compete with an AI-generated flood of grifters and scammers and a AI-driven resume filter judging them on whether they match the AI-generated criteria for getting the AI-generated posting which was created because some middle manager wanted to get his nephew a job.