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Only 2.5% of 12,779 tech job listings are entry-level

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Is this an ad? Where does it say 2.5%

This is 100% an ad.

How can a fresher get job when he or she doesn't has any network. Only option is through showcasing their projects but how many hiring managers would be interested in their area of interest

Showcasing your projects has gradually become useless too with the proliferation of vibe coded apps.

Thank god. Let's go back to on-site whiteboarding of basic coding problems that can be solved in ~10 minutes.

Start your own company around a project idea (or at least the website for one). This will force you to show off what you've done and that you have a basic understanding of how a business works, and it might be enough to get through the recruiter wall. If you spend enough time on it I don't think anyone would blame you for putting it on your resume. If you accidentally find a paying customer, all the better.

Hey!

Thanks for reaching out.

It is definitely getting tough in the world of AI and just fierce competition, especially with these dwindling opportunities for graduate or entry level roles.

I think the best chance these days is to have a targeted set of projects that is tuned for small businesses where you can easily reachout to them via Linkedin or similar social channels.

It has to be tailored projects using real data and services like AWS or GCP anything that can be built on top of real life usage in companies will help alot.

With this, you can get a chance to reach out to people in that company that doesn't have to be the hiring manager, just someone that can put a good word in to get you in.

Shaddup. Go do that and show me it works. Also shaddup

This is an ad/clickbait. This article is more researched with details [1] in particular, “ the share of tech jobs requiring three years of experience or less fell from 43% in 2018 to 28% in 2024, according to IEEE Spectrum”

1. https://mothasa.substack.com/p/the-junior-developer-is-going...

Weird. Here in Austria from what I see the job market is very K-shaped right now.

As in I see a lot of demand for working student and new grad positions, because they can pay them less and they aren't demanding on hours, wages and WFH, and then high demand for highly experienced positions with a lot of personal responsibility like principal, tech-lead, CTO, etc where they expect you to do the job of 3 people with a laundry list of skills and requirements working long hours for 80-90k/year which nobody wants because after taxes you net home 1000 Euros more than a junior while working 5x more so there's a constant "shortage of skilled people". And then there's basically nothing in between.

Anecdotally the junior/new grad people I know have no issues getting job offers, but the senior people I know who've been laid off have been unemployed for almost a year and gave up when confronted with the current job market, and became day traders or wantrepreneurs.

Entry level is being automated away.

Eventually I can see the solution as UBI plus abolishing minimum wage; allowing people to live on basic and take apprenticeships where they can just earn experience.

Meanwhile entry-level AI whisperer jobs at an all time high

I wonder if there's a tragedy of the commons effect with hiring. No individual company wants to spend to train employees when they can just use the pool of trained employees from other companies.

I've always been a bit sceptical about these types of statistics, seems like it's a classification problem as well; the big established companies that traditionally take on lots of grads have many recruiting pathways, and don't always list many roles.

Smaller places just need "a guy" and don't always specify experience.

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