Paul Barnhurst argues that as AI handles routine work, companies will need apprenticeship-style programs to teach new hires the fundamentals. Rotational job schemes and structured learning could become the main way firms recruit and upskill early-career talent while closing the skill gap AI creates.
If you think of a lot of skill trades, you do an apprenticeship for several years. Is there almost gonna be some kind of apprenticeship type thing where you're working along AI so you get those good fundamentals? It'll be interesting to see, but I'm with you, something has to change.
Yeah, and I think to the point, entry-level work exists, you just raise the floor to be more complicated. Of course, then you have the problem of having people have the skill sets to do that. The apprenticeship is a very interesting concept. I'd be willing to bet that companies would be more and more interested in that as a recruiting tactic. It's not like, oh, we're gonna just take these unskilled people and get no value from them. It's very much an intentional investment approach. And I think you see that with bigger companies that have like rotational job programs for new workers and stuff like that. They exist. There's probably just gonna have to be more of it.
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