00:00Are there any misconceptions about today's job market for young people that you complicated through some of these interviews?
00:10I spoke to students at Stanford, University of Chicago, the University of Carnegie Mellon, for example.
00:16The university is known for producing great graduates in their field, and they feel like it doesn't necessarily make a
00:24huge difference in this job market when everyone's competing for the same thing.
00:27I think what's difficult is that this class is graduating into a period of potentially major, major change, but the
00:37rules to follow or the advice given for how to get a job really hasn't changed.
00:42So there's a bit of frustration on their end of they can see that the world has changed so much,
00:46but the way you still get a job is relatively the same.
00:49The other thing I will say that I was just thinking about while I was talking to you is that
00:54there's a sense that this generation doesn't want to do any menial work and that they feel entitled to doing
01:02only work that they consider to be at their level or satisfying.
01:08Or that is not what I experienced talking to these students at all.
01:12These students were like, let me get someone coffee.
01:15Let me make copies for someone.
01:17Let me do any sort of grunt work I can.
01:20And it doesn't even have to be in my chosen field.
01:23I'm willing to branch out.
01:24I'm willing to try something new.
01:26I think that will be a huge asset to this generation.
01:29They are so used to disruption.
01:31They are so open to trying new things.
01:33And I think that is something that is really an advantage they have over the rest of us who had,
01:39you know, our careers have gone maybe one way and maybe they're about to change dramatically.
01:44This generation is really open to trying new things and doing whatever they can to sort of get a foot
01:51into their chosen career.
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