{"id":84274,"date":"2025-08-22T05:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84274\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T05:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:18:08","slug":"computer-science-graduates-struggle-to-secure-their-first-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84274\/","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":84275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-84274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}