Data Debrief: Blame AI! Averages Lie! and Kyle's throat sounds like he's going to... Cough.
About this episode
Kyle Winterbottom and Catherine Dowden-King discuss the implications of AI on the job market and the challenges in graduate hiring.
In this week's Data Debrief, the companion show to Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom and Catherine Dowden-King unpack the week's main episode with Michael Ross and range far beyond it into the collapse in graduate hiring, the succession planning nobody is doing, and what's really happening at both ends of the data job market. From a record 45% drop in advertised graduate roles, to the experienced leaders who've been out of work for two years, to Michael's case that every average hides an opportunity, Kyle and Catherine make the argument that AI is taking the blame for decisions plenty of businesses already wanted to make, and that the bill for not developing people will land in about five years' time. They also discuss: Why a 45% drop in advertised graduate jobs is the lowest figure ever recorded, and why AI can't be held responsible for all of it. How record university enrolment colliding with a shrinking entry-level market creates a problem unfolding in real time. Why "entry-level" data roles asking for two years of Python or SQL were never really entry-level. What happens to the pipeline when the admin-heavy tasks juniors cut their teeth on get absorbed by agents…
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