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Why fresh graduates face bleak tech jobs prospects
Managers in tech firms are uneasy about hiring members of the Zoomer generation, popularly known as Gen Z, with 55 percent of employers saying that this group struggles with teamwork.
While the tech world has for years been synonymous with innovation and boundless growth, industry researchers are warning that the sector’s long-running obsession with hiring bright graduates straight out of college is on a collision course with new-age realities.
Among these include lesser funding rounds, the growing need for smaller teams, fewer new graduate programmes as well as the rise of more efficient technologies such as artificial intelligence.
