{"id":174352,"date":"2025-09-28T04:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174352\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T04:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:14:28","slug":"computer-science-graduates-struggle-to-secure-their-first-jobs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174352\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer science graduates struggle to secure their first jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">ChatGPT, and other coding tools, are being blamed for a collapse in tech job openings, particularly for younger software developers and engineers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A report by the UK&#8217;s National Foundation for Education Research<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfer.ac.uk\/publications\/a-narrowing-pipeline-what-changes-in-uk-tech-hiring-might-tell-us-about-future-opportunities-in-the-sector\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> showed a 50% decline, external<\/a> in tech job adverts between 2019\/20 and 2024\/25, with entry level roles particularly affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report cited the &#8220;anticipated impact of artificial intelligence&#8221; as one of the factors behind this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the same time, software developers have widely adopted AI code tools, while simultaneously expressing distrust in their output.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/survey.stackoverflow.co\/2025\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Research by Stack Overflow, external<\/a>, a software knowledge platform, shows almost half use AI tools daily, despite just one third actually trusting the output of such tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, says it&#8217;s &#8220;a tricky time to graduate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More broadly, he says, its research shows developers are choosing to stay put, despite many expressing dissatisfaction with their work. &#8220;People are probably running for safety a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All of this means young technologists are finding it harder to get that critical first job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ChatGPT, and other coding tools, are being blamed for a collapse in tech job openings, particularly for younger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-174352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}