{"id":440457,"date":"2026-08-22T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440457\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:40:39","slug":"tech-workers-are-facing-an-entry-level-job-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440457\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech workers are facing an entry-level job apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Aug. 20, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Fresh out of college and living in Toronto, David Zou was determined to break into San Francisco\u2019s tech scene. He craved its energy and wanted to be surrounded by people \u201cbuilding optimistically for the future.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">First, he needed to land an interview. The 24-year-old applied to about 30 sales-related jobs, cold-DMed roughly 100 startup founders on social media, and crafted personalized messages to recruiters on LinkedIn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">When nothing worked, he ordered a custom cake printed with a photo of him skydiving and the message: \u201cI\u2019m ready to (sky)dive headfirst into crushing it for my clients.\u201d He had it delivered to the office of Virio, an AI startup in downtown San Francisco, after applying for a role as founding account manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">It worked. He started the job in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 20, 2026at6:00am Fresh out of college and living in Toronto, David Zou was determined to break&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2007,9329,1286,101,103,102,104,106,105,8170,995,47272,1970,7164],"class_list":["post-440457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ai","tag-billionaires","tag-jobs","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-startups","tag-tech","tag-tech-bros","tag-technology","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}