\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

60% of fresh-faced grads frozen out of the workforce

Gen Z is right about the job hunt—it really is worse t...
frum alpha jew
  07/18/25
One young Silicon Valley marketing hopeful, Lukas Yla, knew ...
chrome misanthropic quadroon friendly grandma
  07/18/25
...
frum alpha jew
  07/18/25
...
curious primrose market
  07/19/25
...
Lime Headpube
  07/19/25
...
Angry sweet tailpipe volcanic crater
  07/18/25
...
curious primrose market
  07/19/25
The 2020 zoomers had it the best of anyone. The entire mille...
Chestnut supple stage
  07/18/25
they just need to start a podcast
peach spot liquid oxygen
  07/18/25
...
Pearly laser beams
  07/18/25
Ctrl + F "h1b" no results odd case
Navy garrison
  07/18/25
...
Yellow blathering incel
  07/19/25
...
Electric Skinny Woman
  07/19/25
The key is to take jobs that are beneath you. That's the onl...
slimy business firm juggernaut
  07/19/25
Fuck them dead and I want all their shit.
milky stirring hall
  07/19/25
im surprised its that low. wtf are 40% of college grads gett...
confused exhilarant location
  07/19/25
Onlyfans videos don't make themselves...yet.
milky stirring hall
  07/19/25
there are fewer people going to college now and it's skewing...
Chestnut supple stage
  07/19/25
legal assistant at Skadden under the watchful eye of M&A...
Vigorous painfully honest gas station lettuce
  07/19/25
...
Puce Theater Stage Mother
  07/19/25
100% of that 60% are Liberal Artists with No Practical Skill...
Stubborn Shaky Native Idea He Suggested
  07/19/25
CS majors are done here https://www.businessinsider.com/u...
Mischievous Cruise Ship Becky
  07/19/25
what kind of BS article is this? the data is from 2023, whic...
Stubborn Shaky Native Idea He Suggested
  07/19/25
Gen Z doesn't do liberal arts ime. enough prole vocational m...
Chestnut supple stage
  07/19/25
Yep. Even at elite schools. There was some T20 English prof ...
Bateful deer antler mediation
  07/19/25
very true. my wife is a professor of communications at a TTT...
sticky field
  07/19/25
nope. CS and engineering majors are doing even worse on the ...
sticky field
  07/19/25
Why is it happening like this this time btw? Early 90s: G...
Chestnut supple stage
  07/19/25
Hmm odd case
Yellow blathering incel
  07/19/25
wait till AI really settles in
Lime Headpube
  07/19/25
This was always the case. They’ll take retail jobs, et...
Topaz stage wrinkle
  07/19/25
(Kevin Smith)
Chestnut supple stage
  07/19/25
i will pay the young women for sex if they need money
Hairraiser costumed pervert
  07/19/25
Anecdotally I believe it. 3 of my gen z cousins who graduate...
crawly philosopher-king
  07/19/25
what exactly are they supposed to do
confused exhilarant location
  07/19/25
OnlyFans content creator
sticky field
  07/19/25
Have resilience and stop being mental weaklings
Lake Nibblets Factory Reset Button
  07/19/25
wtf are you talking about
confused exhilarant location
  07/19/25
sex with men
Hairraiser costumed pervert
  07/19/25
Stop being Entitled
Chestnut supple stage
  07/19/25
they're smart enough not to borrow 400K for law center
Vigorous painfully honest gas station lettuce
  07/19/25
Maybe move to India for a job since they’re all in ame...
Odious ultramarine goal in life
  07/19/25
That wouldn't work for non-NRIs. In India jobs are divided ...
massive laughsome codepig school
  07/19/25
Considering the Gen Zs I have worked with, they deserve to b...
Galvanic Gunner
  07/19/25
many of them are not just useless, but create more work for ...
sticky field
  07/19/25
CR. our gen Z paralegal is the most incompetent person i hav...
Galvanic Gunner
  07/19/25
A lot of Gen Z will only take a job if it pays six figures a...
Vivacious Onyx Ticket Booth
  07/19/25
The sloots just get financed by online simps who send them s...
apoplectic set
  07/19/25
sadly cr
talented plum boistinker chapel
  07/19/25
Now do 2009-2011 law grads
Puce Theater Stage Mother
  07/19/25
What’s coming will be so bad that era will be complete...
judgmental kitchen
  07/19/25


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: July 18th, 2025 9:05 PM
Author: frum alpha jew

Gen Z is right about the job hunt—it really is worse than it was for millennials, with nearly 60% of fresh-faced grads frozen out of the workforce

July 29, 2025

When millennials, Gen X, and baby boomers graduated, just a quarter could expect to be unemployed that year. Meanwhile, nearly 60% of fresh-faced Gen Z grads today can’t land a job.

Gen Z’s suspicion that the job hunt is harder than ever may be true—about 58% of recent graduates are still looking for full-time work, compared to 25% of earlier graduates, like millennials, Gen Xers, and baby boomers before them. Young job-hunters are also three times less likely to have a job lined up out of school, as AI agents take over and entry-level roles are shrinking for Gen Z workers.

Gen Z is slammed for complaining about how tough it is to work five days in-office, or even get a job in the first place—but their suspicions may be true. Research has confirmed, their older millennial critics had a far easier time locking down a gig to begin with.

About 58% of students who graduated within the last year are still looking for their first job, according to a recent report from Kickresume.

Meanwhile, just 25% of graduates in previous years—such as their millennial and Gen X predecessors—struggled to land work after college.

It may be tempting to think Gen Z just isn’t as hungry for work as previous generations, like Whoopi Goldberg and Judge Judy espouse. However, the study suggests that previous generations really could walk straight into a job much more easily than young people today.

In fact, nearly 40% of previous graduates managed to secure full-time work in time for their graduation ceremony—but just 12% of recent Gen Z grads can say the same, making these young job hunters three times less likely to have something lined up out of school.

“The journey from classroom to career has never been straightforward,” the researchers wrote. “But it’s clear that today’s graduates are entering a job market that’s more uncertain, more digital, and arguably more demanding than ever.”

Today’s young job-seekers are up against AI agents and a tightening white-collar job market—to the point where they’re handing in donuts and waitressing to try and jump-start their careers in unconventional ways.

Today’s tough job market driving four million Gen Z into NEET status

It’s no secret that landing a job in today’s labor market requires more than a fine-tuned résumé and cover letter. Employers are putting new hires through bizarre lunch tests and personality quizzes to even consider them for a role.

It’s undeniably a tough job market for many white-collar workers—about 20% of job-seekers have been searching for work for at least 10 to 12 months, and last year around 40% of unemployed people said they didn’t land a single job interview in 2024. It’s become so bad that hunting for a role has become a nine-to-five gig for many, as the strategy has become a numbers game—with young professionals sending in as many as 1,700 applicants to no avail. And with the advent of AI, the hiring process has become an all-out tech battle between managers and applicants.

Part of this issue may stem from technology whittling down the number of entry-level roles for Gen Z graduates; as chatbots and AI agents take over junior staffers’ mundane job tasks, companies need fewer staffers to meet their goals.

Skyrocketing tuition costs and a bleak white-collar job market have made Gen Z’s situation so bad that 4.3 million young people are now NEETs: not in education, employment, or training. And while things look tough in America, it’s become an international issue, with the number of NEETs in the U.K. rising 100,000 over the past year alone. The age-old promise that a college degree will funnel new graduates into full-time roles has been broken.

“Universities aren’t deliberately setting students up to fail, but the system is failing to deliver on its implicit promise,” Lewis Maleh, CEO of staffing and recruitment agency Bentley Lewis, told Fortune.

The Kickresume researchers advise young people to just get on the career ladder as soon as possible, instead of holding out for that dream job in their field of study: “We often tell graduates not to stress too much about their first job. It’s just a starting point, not a life sentence.”

Young people are desperately chasing jobs with donuts and waitressing gigs

While baby boomers may have chased a job by walking into an office and handing over their résumés directly to a hiring manager, Gen Z are having to get crafty to gain employers’ attention.

One young Silicon Valley marketing hopeful, Lukas Yla, knew he wouldn’t get far handing over his cover letter in-person, so he hatched a plan. When he was 25, the job-seeker posed as a delivery driver, handing over boxes of donuts with a secret memo attached on the inside. The note read “Most resumes end up in trash. Mine—in your belly,” along with his résumé and LinkedIn profile. He won over some employers, landing at least 10 interviews from the stunt.

Another Gen Z job-seeker took to waitressing at a marketing conference after failing to land a job through traditional methods for six months. Basant Shenouda couldn’t find work after graduating from a top university in Germany, so she volunteered to clean up glasses at one of the most well-known marketing and sales events in the country.

During her breaks, she’d float her CV by at least 30 to 40 people, asking for feedback, but hoping for an opportunity. Shortly thereafter, she landed a job at LinkedIn.

“When you’re a graduate, you think everyone’s going to say yes to you and things are going [to] work out. But it’s a matter of building up resilience,” Shenouda told Fortune. “You need to keep reassessing your process so that every no gets you closer to that next yes.”

https://fortune.com/2025/07/14/gen-z-job-hunting-harder-millions-unemployed-millennial-gen-x-careers-ai-entry-level-work/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49113248)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 18th, 2025 9:08 PM
Author: chrome misanthropic quadroon friendly grandma

One young Silicon Valley marketing hopeful, Lukas Yla, knew he wouldn’t get far handing over his cover letter in-person, so he hatched a plan. When he was 25, the job-seeker posed as a delivery driver, handing over boxes of donuts with a secret memo attached on the inside. The note read “Most resumes end up in trash. Mine—in your belly,” along with his résumé and LinkedIn profile. He won over some employers, landing at least 10 interviews from the stunt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49113256)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 18th, 2025 9:11 PM
Author: frum alpha jew



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49113265)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 11:10 AM
Author: curious primrose market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114164)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 11:23 AM
Author: Lime Headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114179)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 18th, 2025 9:24 PM
Author: Angry sweet tailpipe volcanic crater



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49113295)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 11:11 AM
Author: curious primrose market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114165)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 18th, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: Chestnut supple stage

The 2020 zoomers had it the best of anyone. The entire millennial Gen got screwed basically whereas zoomers are only partially screwed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49113361)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 18th, 2025 9:41 PM
Author: peach spot liquid oxygen

they just need to start a podcast

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49113366)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 18th, 2025 10:04 PM
Author: Pearly laser beams



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49113418)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 18th, 2025 10:06 PM
Author: Navy garrison

Ctrl + F "h1b"

no results

odd case

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49113421)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 12:59 PM
Author: Yellow blathering incel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114288)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 10:45 AM
Author: Electric Skinny Woman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114134)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 10:49 AM
Author: slimy business firm juggernaut

The key is to take jobs that are beneath you. That's the only way to be secure in life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114141)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 10:53 AM
Author: milky stirring hall

Fuck them dead and I want all their shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114147)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 10:55 AM
Author: confused exhilarant location

im surprised its that low. wtf are 40% of college grads getting hired to do?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114150)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 10:59 AM
Author: milky stirring hall

Onlyfans videos don't make themselves...yet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114157)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 11:08 AM
Author: Chestnut supple stage

there are fewer people going to college now and it's skewing more Female; Firms create fake jobs for Women ime

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114163)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:57 PM
Author: Vigorous painfully honest gas station lettuce

legal assistant at Skadden under the watchful eye of M&A Partner and Domina Bailey Jay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114387)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 9:06 PM
Author: Puce Theater Stage Mother



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49115311)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 10:56 AM
Author: Stubborn Shaky Native Idea He Suggested

100% of that 60% are Liberal Artists with No Practical Skills

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114153)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 11:02 AM
Author: Mischievous Cruise Ship Becky

CS majors are done here

https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-college-majors-anthropology-physics-computer-engineering-jobs-2025-7

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114159)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Stubborn Shaky Native Idea He Suggested

what kind of BS article is this? the data is from 2023, which was at the height of tech layoffs. i also check the value of my portfolio with a two year delay. trash journalism likely written by a Liberal Artist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114226)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: Chestnut supple stage

Gen Z doesn't do liberal arts ime. enough prole vocational majors have sprung up for proles for anyone who's Bad at academics but still wants to go to college for some reason. They understand dichotomies. They either do Engineering, embrace proledom, or killself. They don't try to be a boomer echo gen and assume everything will magically work out like millennial liberal artists.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114177)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 2:30 PM
Author: Bateful deer antler mediation

Yep. Even at elite schools. There was some T20 English prof on Twitter talking about 50% drop in enrollment in lib arts majors over the past ten years. Zoomers got the message. Unfortunately for them, the market for entry level grads got even harder, ever for STEM.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114462)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 2:31 PM
Author: sticky field

very true. my wife is a professor of communications at a TTT and their program is less than half the size it was a decade ago.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114463)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: sticky field

nope. CS and engineering majors are doing even worse on the job market. h1bs and AI taking all entry level jobs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114365)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 12:26 PM
Author: Chestnut supple stage

Why is it happening like this this time btw?

Early 90s: Gen X fired en masse, same in 2001, 2009, 2020

This time, housing just stays at the sane level it was, along with jobs but there’s no economic activity, just Stasis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114238)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: Yellow blathering incel

Hmm odd case

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114290)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 12:58 PM
Author: Lime Headpube

wait till AI really settles in

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114285)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:07 PM
Author: Topaz stage wrinkle

This was always the case. They’ll take retail jobs, etc and become $150k regional managers in 10 years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114304)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: Chestnut supple stage

(Kevin Smith)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114473)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:08 PM
Author: Hairraiser costumed pervert

i will pay the young women for sex if they need money

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114305)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:19 PM
Author: crawly philosopher-king

Anecdotally I believe it. 3 of my gen z cousins who graduated in recent years have had trouble finding / holding jobs. One of them gave up and is now doing a post Bach to med school route. That generation of kids has no resilience, total mental weaklings.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114329)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:40 PM
Author: confused exhilarant location

what exactly are they supposed to do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114362)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:44 PM
Author: sticky field

OnlyFans content creator

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114371)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:45 PM
Author: Lake Nibblets Factory Reset Button

Have resilience and stop being mental weaklings

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114373)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 2:44 PM
Author: confused exhilarant location

wtf are you talking about

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114498)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:54 PM
Author: Hairraiser costumed pervert

sex with men

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114383)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 2:42 PM
Author: Chestnut supple stage

Stop being Entitled

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114485)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:57 PM
Author: Vigorous painfully honest gas station lettuce

they're smart enough not to borrow 400K for law center

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114391)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Odious ultramarine goal in life

Maybe move to India for a job since they’re all in america working?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114331)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 8:11 PM
Author: massive laughsome codepig school

That wouldn't work for non-NRIs. In India jobs are divided up according to caste, and you have to know the right people to get hired.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49115211)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:46 PM
Author: Galvanic Gunner

Considering the Gen Zs I have worked with, they deserve to be unemployed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114376)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 1:57 PM
Author: sticky field

many of them are not just useless, but create more work for their supervisors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114390)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 2:56 PM
Author: Galvanic Gunner

CR. our gen Z paralegal is the most incompetent person i have ever worked with in my 7 jobs

having to double check everything and redo everything is a mindfuck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114525)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 2:34 PM
Author: Vivacious Onyx Ticket Booth

A lot of Gen Z will only take a job if it pays six figures and is 100% WFH

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49114468)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 7:43 PM
Author: apoplectic set

The sloots just get financed by online simps who send them shekels for nothing, pouring drinks for barsimps who give them egregious tips for nothing or oofy doofy relationship simps who sell themselves into indentured servitude for validation and emotional support.

The “males” just rot away in their parent’s basement.

It’s astonishing how much worse the hobby whore market has gotten even in the last year. The cunny is more entitled, useless and almost exclusively “online” or “platonic”. Clearly any white zoomer whores out there are by no means feeling the hurt from the burgeoning economic apocalypse as there are thousands of simp for each piece of white cunny

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49115173)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 9:04 PM
Author: talented plum boistinker chapel

sadly cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49115305)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 9:06 PM
Author: Puce Theater Stage Mother

Now do 2009-2011 law grads

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49115312)



Reply Favorite

Date: July 19th, 2025 9:07 PM
Author: judgmental kitchen

What’s coming will be so bad that era will be completely forgotten

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752071&forum_id=2...id#49115317)