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Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mirror
Millions of workers risk being replaced by AI - but which jobs are safest?
The rapidly growing use of artificial intelligence is set to radically change the way of work - with some roles much more at risk than others as new research reveals the safest jobs Lorry drivers, chefs and cleaners are among the most AI-safe jobs, research suggests. Paid carers, teachers and shop workers are also less likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence, according to analysis by recruitment giant Manpower. But while they may be AI-proof - for now - they are threatened in other ways, from different technologies, squeezed budgets, and changing habits. The findings come amid predictions that the AI revolution will radically change the way of work, with winners and losers. Its arrival is already having a big impact, with a recent report showing the number of entry level jobs has slumped by a third since OpenAi's chatbot software ChatGPT was launched in late 2022 Jobs website Adzuna said AI's use has dented firms' demand for graduates, apprentices and internships. Other roles seen as most at risk include data entry staff, computer coders and software engineers, administrators, customer service, and proof readers. Forecasts on the number of workers whose jobs could eventually be replaced by AI vary greatly. Investment bank Goldman Sachs predicted in 2023 that the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs worldwide could go. Meanwhile, think tank the IPPR says up to eight million UK jobs were at risk, with women and young people most in the firing line. The stark predictions are likely to prompt people to think about how they can 'future proof' themselves, whether by becoming AI savvy or focusing on roles less likely to be replaced by the technology. Goldman Sachs estimated that over 46% of administration tasks would be impacted, but just 6% when it came to construction. That is backed by research last year by Adzuna which found plumbers and carpenters were among those with the least to fear. Manpower's analysis, for the Mirror, found the most 'safe' jobs from AI were lorry drivers, teachers in generals as well as those working in special educational needs, shop workers and supervisors, and cleaners. Others in strong demand include care assistants, chefs, teaching assistants and support workers. Anna Spaul, ManpowerGroup's director of data innovation and insights, said some firms were beginning to use AI in the hiring process. 'There is definitely a case for using AI to sift through applications,' she added. Ms Spaul said companies were increasingly looking for applicants who already have AI know-how. But she stressed there were vital skills people have over the technology, including 'emotive intelligence, empathy and all the great things that come with being human.' Research by accountancy giant PwC last month found wages are rising twice as quickly in industries most exposed to AI. And despite the jobs market cooling, it says demand for workers skilled in AI continued to rise, with some of the biggest in financial services and healthcare. Adzuna's list of jobs safest from AI ranged from big paying roles such as oncologists, paediatricians and judges, to midwives, mechanics, therapists and crane drivers. Rival website Indeed also has a list of the jobs least likely to replace by generative AI, an enhanced version used to create new content which can feel like it has been made by a human. The top 10 includes drivers, nurses, vets, building workers, plus those in childcare, and making food. Most at risk include software developers, accountants, human resources, and those working in the media, communications, and marketing. However, the list also throws up questions. For instance, retail workers are at risk from shop closures due to higher costs and online competition, while there is talk of self-driving lorries even replacing truckers at some stage. Manpower's Ms Spaul predicted that, in future, the success of a company may not be judged purely by how many staff it takes on. 'It won't be the only measure,' she said. 'That is something over the next 10 years that will be really interesting to follow. Going back to 2022, we were dealing with jobs where there was less than one person vacancy, and now there is a surplus. But projections and predictions have limit at the moment because of the pace of change.'
Khaleej Times
6 days ago
- Business
- Khaleej Times
UAE: Is ChatGPT reducing entry-level jobs, junior roles for young graduates?
Hiring for entry-level jobs and junior roles is growing strong in the UAE, but young graduates in the region and globally are finding it challenging to land a job due to ChatGPT and other generative AI solutions. According to LinkedIn's Economic Graph data for April 2025, entry-level hiring in the UAE surged by 70 per cent, far outpacing the country's overall hiring rate and bucking the broader decline across the Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America region (EMEAL) region, suggesting that the UAE is doubling down on investing in career starters. A study released by job search website Adzuna found that entry-level vacancies and junior roles have fallen by approximately a third since ChatGPT was launched in November 2022. With AI automating many basic jobs, young graduates are forced to improve their skills and knowledge to a more advanced level. Tasks once handled by junior paralegals or customer service agents are now routinely executed by AI tools in a fraction of the time. 'Globally, the unemployment rate for recent college graduates has risen by 30 per cent since late 2022, compared to an 18 per cent increase for the general workforce. Yet the UAE's proactive labour policies and commitment to workforce development appear to be cushioning these effects,' said Najat Abdalhadi, career expert at LinkedIn. UAE can become a model 'The challenge now is to ensure that this momentum translates into building the sustainable human skills that the world of work will always need, such as creative thinking, strategic problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration. In doing so, the UAE could become a model for how to navigate AI disruption without sidelining the next generation of talent,' she said. Mayank Patel, senior vice-president of Adecco and head of Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA), said that though AI and automation, including tools like ChatGPT, have transformed certain job functions globally, the UAE's entry-level job landscape has more to offer. 'Thanks to economic diversification, large-scale construction, and growth in sectors like logistics, hospitality, and retail, entry-level roles in operational and service domains have remained resilient. Roles such as warehouse assistants, receptionists, and sales executives continue to grow in demand,' said Patel. 'However, we are also witnessing the evolution rather than the elimination of many support roles. Tasks traditionally done manually are now being augmented with AI tools, allowing workers to upskill and focus on more strategic activities,' he added. Challenges for new graduates Najat Abdalhadi added that entry-level tasks like basic coding, document review, and customer service are being increasingly automated, raising valid questions about long-term career progression for new graduates globally. LinkedIn's data, which identified over 500 skills likely to be affected by generative AI, shows that 96 per cent of a software engineer's skills, for example, primarily involving programming, can eventually be replicated by generative AI skills. Moderate shift Mayank Patel elaborated that there has been a moderate shift, not a decline, in how early career opportunities are structured. 'Traditional entry pathways like graduate programmes and internships are being reimagined to align with new skill demands, especially digital literacy and adaptability," he said. "Rather than reducing these openings, many employers, especially in the UAE, are increasingly investing in purpose-led programmes designed to equip junior talent with future-fit skills in areas like AI, automation, data analysis, and hybrid work environments," he added. Importantly, he noted that the UAE companies are now undertaking upskilling initiatives to support young talent, especially those without formal university degrees. The focus is on capability over credentials, empowering people through microlearning, vocational training, and career mobility programs that prepare them for evolving workplace demands. White-collar roles more impacted Adecco's senior vice-president stated that the emergence of generative AI tools like ChatGPT has primarily impacted white-collar, content-heavy roles that involve high levels of information processing and communication, such as customer support and helpdesk agents, content writers, data entry operators, etc. 'Rather than displacing these roles entirely, AI is automating repetitive tasks, allowing professionals to focus more on judgment, creativity, and human interaction,' he said, adding that human + machine collaboration is the new norm.
The Guardian
6 days ago
- Business
- The Guardian
As if graduating weren't daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI
September is the beginning of many young people's lives, as cars speed along motorways transporting 18- and 19-year-olds to their new university accommodations. I remember my own journey down to Exeter in 2022, the first stage in what I hoped would be an experience to set me up for the rest of my life. Little did I know that this was the calm before the storm, before anyone had heard of ChatGPT, or imagined the chaos that generative AI was about to cause for new graduates. Fast forward to 2025, and some of the young people I began this journey with have realised that they've spent the last three years training for graduate jobs that don't exist. Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires. Big accountancy firms have cut back on graduate recruitment; Deloitte reduced its scheme by 18%, while EY has cut the number of graduates it's recruiting by 11%. According to data collected by the job search site Adzuna, entry-level job opportunities in finance have dropped by 50.8%, and those for IT services have seen a decrease of 54.8%. The main cause of this is artificial intelligence, which is destroying many of the entry-level jobs open to recent graduates. Companies are now relying on AI to replicate junior-level tasks, removing the need for them to hire humans. It feels like a kick in the teeth to students and recent graduates, who were already entering a challenging labour market. Once, graduates who had toiled through multiple rounds of interviews, battled it out with other applicants at an assessment centre, and made it through to the final round, could hope to get a job in a sector such as consultancy or accountancy. These historically secure, solid and (some would say) boring options guaranteed you gainful and well-paid employment and a clear career path. Now, those secure opportunities feel as though they're evaporating. Since applicants can't see jobs that no longer exist, their experience of this intense competition for fewer jobs is often limited to a series of disappointments and rejections. Should a student or recent graduate apply for one of these elusive opportunities, their application will frequently be evaluated and often declined by an AI system before a human even reads it. Friends who have recently graduated tell me of the emotional toll of talking to their webcam during an AI-generated interview in the hope that the system judges in their favour, a process that can be repeated again and again. So far, creative fields, and those that involve real-life human contact, seem more impervious to this trend. It will probably be a period of time before doctors or nurses, or professions that rely on genuine creativity such as painters or performing artists, find themselves replaced with an AI model. Even so, if people become increasingly unable to spot AI, and businesses continue to embrace it, the risk is that professions such as art and illustration also get devalued over time, and replaced by a bleak, AI-generated cocktail of eerily familiar 'creative' work. Conservative politicians and the rightwing press have often suggested that the most valuable degrees are those that have a clear job at the end of them (and that those in more creative fields, such as the humanities, are by implication less valuable). As one Times columnist wrote recently, students who do 'less practical' degrees are more likely to be 'living at home, working on their script/novel/music/art portfolio while earning pocket money', without either a profession or a useful skill. But what use is a degree in accountancy if you can't then get an accounting job at the end of it? Why is this course more valuable than studying something that teaches you critical thinking and transferrable skills – anthropology, say, or (in my case) Arabic and Islamic studies? Cuts to higher education mean that we're already seeing the end of some of those degrees often labelled as 'useless', yet the supposedly 'useful' subjects start to look less valuable when the jobs associated with them are replaced by AI models that didn't take three years to learn these skills. The end of university is already a terrifying time. Three or four years of preparing a bulletproof LinkedIn profile and creating a plan for the future suddenly becomes real. The last thing a person needs aged 21 is for an AI model to take the job they were told their degree was essential for. Today the playing field that exists is different to that of a year ago, and it will undoubtedly be different again when I and many other students graduate in a year's time. The adults who implore us to embrace AI to streamline everyday tasks and improve the efficiency of the working day often already have working days, a promise that feels as though it's drifting further and further away. Connor Myers is a student at the University of Exeter and an intern on the Guardian's positive action scheme
The Guardian
7 days ago
- Business
- The Guardian
As if graduating weren't daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI
September is the beginning of many young people's lives, as cars speed along motorways transporting 18- and 19-year-olds to their new university accommodations. I remember my own journey down to Exeter in 2022, the first stage in what I hoped would be an experience to set me up for the rest of my life. Little did I know that this was the calm before the storm, before anyone had heard of ChatGPT, or imagined the chaos that generative AI was about to cause for new graduates. Fast forward to 2025, and some of the young people I began this journey with have realised that they've spent the last three years training for graduate jobs that don't exist. Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires. Big accountancy firms have cut back on graduate recruitment; Deloitte reduced its scheme by 18%, while EY has cut the number of graduates it's recruiting by 11%. According to data collected by the job search site Adzuna, entry-level job opportunities in finance have dropped by 50.8%, and those for IT services have seen a decrease of 54.8%. The main cause of this is artificial intelligence, which is destroying many of the entry-level jobs open to recent graduates. Companies are now relying on AI to replicate junior-level tasks, removing the need for them to hire humans. It feels like a kick in the teeth to students and recent graduates, who were already entering a challenging labour market. Once, graduates who had toiled through multiple rounds of interviews, battled it out with other applicants at an assessment centre, and made it through to the final round, could hope to get a job in a sector such as consultancy or accountancy. These historically secure, solid and (some would say) boring options guaranteed you gainful and well-paid employment and a clear career path. Now, those secure opportunities feel as though they're evaporating. Since applicants can't see jobs that no longer exist, their experience of this intense competition for fewer jobs is often limited to a series of disappointments and rejections. Should a student or recent graduate apply for one of these elusive opportunities, their application will frequently be evaluated and often declined by an AI system before a human even reads it. Friends who have recently graduated tell me of the emotional toll of talking to their webcam during an AI-generated interview in the hope that the system judges in their favour, a process that can be repeated again and again. So far, creative fields, and those that involve real-life human contact, seem more impervious to this trend. It will probably be a period of time before doctors or nurses, or professions that rely on genuine creativity such as painters or performing artists, find themselves replaced with an AI model. Even so, if people become increasingly unable to spot AI, and businesses continue to embrace it, the risk is that professions such as art and illustration also get devalued over time, and replaced by a bleak, AI-generated cocktail of eerily familiar 'creative' work. Conservative politicians and the rightwing press have often suggested that the most valuable degrees are those that have a clear job at the end of them (and that those in more creative fields, such as the humanities, are by implication less valuable). As one Times columnist wrote recently, students who do 'less practical' degrees are more likely to be 'living at home, working on their script/novel/music/art portfolio while earning pocket money', without either a profession or a useful skill. But what use is a degree in accountancy if you can't then get an accounting job at the end of it? Why is this course more valuable than studying something that teaches you critical thinking and transferrable skills – anthropology, say, or (in my case) Arabic and Islamic studies? Cuts to higher education mean that we're already seeing the end of some of those degrees often labelled as 'useless', yet the supposedly 'useful' subjects start to look less valuable when the jobs associated with them are replaced by AI models that didn't take three years to learn these skills. The end of university is already a terrifying time. Three or four years of preparing a bulletproof LinkedIn profile and creating a plan for the future suddenly becomes real. The last thing a person needs aged 21 is for an AI model to take the job they were told their degree was essential for. Today the playing field that exists is different to that of a year ago, and it will undoubtedly be different again when I and many other students graduate in a year's time. The adults who implore us to embrace AI to streamline everyday tasks and improve the efficiency of the working day often already have working days, a promise that feels as though it's drifting further and further away. Connor Myers is a student at the University of Exeter and an intern on the Guardian's positive action scheme
Spectator
02-07-2025
- Business
- Spectator
What hope is there for today's unlucky graduates?
I'm fresh out of advice for those now leaving university and wondering how on earth they're going to make a living and live their dreams. This week's bad news (from the job search website Adzuna) was that graduate and other entry-level vacancies have fallen almost a third since the launch of the AI chatbot. Should this unlucky post-Covid cohort stay on at 'uni' for another degree? Or does that mean racking up student debt without enhancing employability? I used to urge everyone to go abroad in their twenties before family responsibilities overtake. But where to now? Hong Kong and mainland China are out; it's the wrong time to go to America or the Middle East; they'll need work permits for the EU. Maybe Mark Carney's resurgent Canada – a destination out of fashion for Brits since the 1950s – will become the hot new place to go. Closer to home, what of careers in journalism? At a recent seminar in Oxford, a panel of veterans agreed it's more fun than having a real job but demands relentless self-promotion to achieve bare subsistence earnings. And oldsters like me can't even use a lifetime's contacts to help youngsters who have the gumption to ask, because these days that's seen as elitist and unfair. What else can I say? You're on your own, kids. But when I was your age in the 1970s, prospects felt a lot darker than today. It took a decade and a radical change of government, but horizons eventually brightened beyond anything we imagined at the nadir. So wait for the wheel of fate to turn, and meanwhile keep busy in the most stimulating ways you can find. You might become a day trader, dabbling in any market – crypto if you must – that moves. And there I might be able to help with occasional tips, noting smugly that shares in the gold miner Fresnillo are up 44 per cent since mentioned in April. More sensibly, you might start your own business. I laughed at a picture of Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who has done so much harm to enterprise, 'saluting start-ups at No. 11'. But she's right that high-growth companies are the only things that will create better jobs to replace so many that have gone missing. And I can help there too, by pointing you towards The Spectator's Economic Innovator Awards. One way or another, my young friends, the motto must be never lose hope. Lotus crash? 'Lotus to end carmaking in the UK after 70 years' was Saturday's headline, followed by 'Reprieve for Lotus factory in Norfolk' on Sunday. What happened in between? The Lotus sports car marque has long stood for engineering brilliance combined with financial turmoil. Since 2017 it has been controlled by Geely, the Chinese giant which also owns Volvo. In response to Donald Trump's tariffs, it halted production in Norfolk where it employs 1,300 workers and was reported to be planning a new plant in the US. But after an intervention by the Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, Lotus's (presumably AI-driven) PR machine changed its tune to 'exploring strategic options to enhance efficiency and ensure global competitiveness in an evolving market'. Whatever that means, expect Lotus to depart these shores by next year. Lost tribe At a 90th birthday lunch for a friend from my banking career back in the mists of time, I'm moved to an impromptu speech quoting my long-forgotten book Falling Eagle: the Decline of Barclays Bank, in which I wrote that great companies have never been 'machines for making money' but are 'accumulations of human skill, hope and weakness' with the distinctive character and folklore of historic regiments or primitive tribes. For those present, it felt as though our Barclays regiment had been disbanded – our tribe dispersed, if you prefer – a generation ago: none felt pride or affection for the bank of today beyond, let's be honest, its defined-benefit pension scheme. And as if to confirm that sense of severance, up popped news of Jes Staley, the pugnacious American boss of Barclays from 2015 to 2021 who stood down after a Financial Conduct Authority investigation into his friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but challenged the FCA's decision to ban him from senior jobs in financial services. The Upper Tribunal upheld that judgment last week and the FCA repeated its finding that Staley had acted recklessly and 'with a lack of integrity'. 'Every time a sentence is written about him,' one City source observed, 'Epstein will get a mention.' Indeed so – and every time Barclays is named alongside, our lost tribe will utter a collective sigh of regret. Rail against I warned a month or so ago that ministers and union leaders who are ideologically set on renationalising the railways were also conspiring to scrap the passenger-friendly 'open access' system that allows licenced operators such as Lumo and Grand Central to compete against mainline franchisees. Following a select committee hearing in which Mick Lynch of the RMT union damned as 'parasites' these freelance services which many regular travellers regard as the best thing on the network, the Secretary of State Heidi Alexander has ordered a 'review' of open access, on the basis of a claim that it extracts 'supernormal profits' of more than £200 million a year at taxpayers' cost. Several new open-access bids, including one from Sir Richard Branson to bring Virgin trains back into competition against Avanti on the West Coast mainline, are under threat – and despite Alexander's assurances to the contrary, I'd bet on open access being abolished entirely by the time Labour limps out of power. And now the King has been persuaded to decommission the royal train. Why am I suddenly seeing a vision from Doctor Zhivago of the Bolshevik commander Strelnikov lurking behind his armoured locomotive?
