Can incoming youth prospects handle the workaday world? It’s a question that is plaguing economists and researchers, and for good reason. No generation in recent memory has had quite as much trouble integrating into work environments compared to Gen Z.
US employers report that they are increasingly reluctant to hire Gen Z labor, and this includes Gen Z -age hiring representatives who don’t want to hire their own. Despite this trend the latest generation to enter the work force says they feel greater optimism for their job prospects going into 2025 according to surveys, but are they living in la la land?
The recruitment process has apparently been grueling for many companies that are relying increasingly on AI to process resumes. What they did not expect was for Gen Z workers to also use AI as a tool for supercharging the amount of applications they send out. Employers now say AI might be complicating the hiring process, with savvy Gen Z exploiting the tech to better misrepresent their qualifications and apply to jobs randomly through automation.
This dynamic has created an environment of “ghost applicants” and also “job ghosting”. Companies offer positions to Gen Z applicants which are automatically accepted, only to discover that the person is no longer looking. Sometimes the position is filled and the employee is processed, only for the worker to never show up.
AI and online hiring has allowed Gen Z to send out resumes by the thousands and gather as many potential offers as possible; then sift through those offers and accept the one they prefer while never following up on the flurry of AI generated applications they fired into the ether. Companies say the time they have to spend on sorting job applicants has skyrocketed in the past few years. Over 80% of hiring managers say they will be rejecting AI generated applications outright. […]
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