Clinton Crawford, an automotive technician, said college was pushed on his kids. “That’s good, if that’s for you, but I don’t think it’s for everyone.”
“Parents are waking up,” one career strategist says. “College doesn’t carry the same [return on investment] it once did.”
“I would much recommend people focus on maybe the next few months,” Ryan Roslansky said.
Economic uncertainty is the driver behind the 53% planning to reduce or not change their headcounts.
Amazon laid off 14,000 employees this fall, but CEO Andy Jassy denied the reductions were related to AI.
According to Justina Nixon-Saintil, IBM’s chief impact officer, 2025 was the year “the penny dropped” for AI.
“Experience is no longer enough,” a job-search expert says.
Dimon added that people who possess soft skills will have “plenty of jobs.”
Every CEO of every organization needs a clear business transformation strategy that accounts for the seismic shifts coming from AI.
“For the most part, AI is going to do great stuff for mankind, like tractors did, like fertilizers did, like vaccines did.”
