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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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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