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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:05 PM
Author: irate provocative stead dragon

Gen Z is right about the job hunt—it really is worse than it was for millennials, with nearly 60% of fresh-faced grads frozen out of the workforce

July 29, 2025

When millennials, Gen X, and baby boomers graduated, just a quarter could expect to be unemployed that year. Meanwhile, nearly 60% of fresh-faced Gen Z grads today can’t land a job.

Gen Z’s suspicion that the job hunt is harder than ever may be true—about 58% of recent graduates are still looking for full-time work, compared to 25% of earlier graduates, like millennials, Gen Xers, and baby boomers before them. Young job-hunters are also three times less likely to have a job lined up out of school, as AI agents take over and entry-level roles are shrinking for Gen Z workers.

Gen Z is slammed for complaining about how tough it is to work five days in-office, or even get a job in the first place—but their suspicions may be true. Research has confirmed, their older millennial critics had a far easier time locking down a gig to begin with.

About 58% of students who graduated within the last year are still looking for their first job, according to a recent report from Kickresume.

Meanwhile, just 25% of graduates in previous years—such as their millennial and Gen X predecessors—struggled to land work after college.

It may be tempting to think Gen Z just isn’t as hungry for work as previous generations, like Whoopi Goldberg and Judge Judy espouse. However, the study suggests that previous generations really could walk straight into a job much more easily than young people today.

In fact, nearly 40% of previous graduates managed to secure full-time work in time for their graduation ceremony—but just 12% of recent Gen Z grads can say the same, making these young job hunters three times less likely to have something lined up out of school.

“The journey from classroom to career has never been straightforward,” the researchers wrote. “But it’s clear that today’s graduates are entering a job market that’s more uncertain, more digital, and arguably more demanding than ever.”

Today’s young job-seekers are up against AI agents and a tightening white-collar job market—to the point where they’re handing in donuts and waitressing to try and jump-start their careers in unconventional ways.

Today’s tough job market driving four million Gen Z into NEET status

It’s no secret that landing a job in today’s labor market requires more than a fine-tuned résumé and cover letter. Employers are putting new hires through bizarre lunch tests and personality quizzes to even consider them for a role.

It’s undeniably a tough job market for many white-collar workers—about 20% of job-seekers have been searching for work for at least 10 to 12 months, and last year around 40% of unemployed people said they didn’t land a single job interview in 2024. It’s become so bad that hunting for a role has become a nine-to-five gig for many, as the strategy has become a numbers game—with young professionals sending in as many as 1,700 applicants to no avail. And with the advent of AI, the hiring process has become an all-out tech battle between managers and applicants.

Part of this issue may stem from technology whittling down the number of entry-level roles for Gen Z graduates; as chatbots and AI agents take over junior staffers’ mundane job tasks, companies need fewer staffers to meet their goals.

Skyrocketing tuition costs and a bleak white-collar job market have made Gen Z’s situation so bad that 4.3 million young people are now NEETs: not in education, employment, or training. And while things look tough in America, it’s become an international issue, with the number of NEETs in the U.K. rising 100,000 over the past year alone. The age-old promise that a college degree will funnel new graduates into full-time roles has been broken.

“Universities aren’t deliberately setting students up to fail, but the system is failing to deliver on its implicit promise,” Lewis Maleh, CEO of staffing and recruitment agency Bentley Lewis, told Fortune.

The Kickresume researchers advise young people to just get on the career ladder as soon as possible, instead of holding out for that dream job in their field of study: “We often tell graduates not to stress too much about their first job. It’s just a starting point, not a life sentence.”

Young people are desperately chasing jobs with donuts and waitressing gigs

While baby boomers may have chased a job by walking into an office and handing over their résumés directly to a hiring manager, Gen Z are having to get crafty to gain employers’ attention.

One young Silicon Valley marketing hopeful, Lukas Yla, knew he wouldn’t get far handing over his cover letter in-person, so he hatched a plan. When he was 25, the job-seeker posed as a delivery driver, handing over boxes of donuts with a secret memo attached on the inside. The note read “Most resumes end up in trash. Mine—in your belly,” along with his résumé and LinkedIn profile. He won over some employers, landing at least 10 interviews from the stunt.

Another Gen Z job-seeker took to waitressing at a marketing conference after failing to land a job through traditional methods for six months. Basant Shenouda couldn’t find work after graduating from a top university in Germany, so she volunteered to clean up glasses at one of the most well-known marketing and sales events in the country.

During her breaks, she’d float her CV by at least 30 to 40 people, asking for feedback, but hoping for an opportunity. Shortly thereafter, she landed a job at LinkedIn.

“When you’re a graduate, you think everyone’s going to say yes to you and things are going [to] work out. But it’s a matter of building up resilience,” Shenouda told Fortune. “You need to keep reassessing your process so that every no gets you closer to that next yes.”

https://fortune.com/2025/07/14/gen-z-job-hunting-harder-millions-unemployed-millennial-gen-x-careers-ai-entry-level-work/

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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:08 PM
Author: chartreuse titillating pit

One young Silicon Valley marketing hopeful, Lukas Yla, knew he wouldn’t get far handing over his cover letter in-person, so he hatched a plan. When he was 25, the job-seeker posed as a delivery driver, handing over boxes of donuts with a secret memo attached on the inside. The note read “Most resumes end up in trash. Mine—in your belly,” along with his résumé and LinkedIn profile. He won over some employers, landing at least 10 interviews from the stunt.

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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:11 PM
Author: irate provocative stead dragon



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Date: July 19th, 2025 11:10 AM
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Date: July 19th, 2025 11:23 AM
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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:24 PM
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Date: July 19th, 2025 11:11 AM
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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: Misunderstood property indirect expression

The 2020 zoomers had it the best of anyone. The entire millennial Gen got screwed basically whereas zoomers are only partially screwed.

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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:41 PM
Author: Comical Mood Hall

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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:04 PM
Author: Outnumbered forum round eye



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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:06 PM
Author: floppy marketing idea party of the first part

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Date: July 19th, 2025 12:59 PM
Author: Shimmering Wonderful Orchestra Pit



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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:45 AM
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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:49 AM
Author: gay mental disorder dilemma

The key is to take jobs that are beneath you. That's the only way to be secure in life.

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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:53 AM
Author: gaped trump supporter den

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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:55 AM
Author: Glittery primrose set

im surprised its that low. wtf are 40% of college grads getting hired to do?

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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:59 AM
Author: gaped trump supporter den

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Date: July 19th, 2025 11:08 AM
Author: Misunderstood property indirect expression

there are fewer people going to college now and it's skewing more Female; Firms create fake jobs for Women ime

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:57 PM
Author: rebellious federal school cafeteria

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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:06 PM
Author: Bonkers depressive



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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:56 AM
Author: mildly autistic boyish headpube address

100% of that 60% are Liberal Artists with No Practical Skills

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Date: July 19th, 2025 11:02 AM
Author: Sable Point

CS majors are done here

https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-college-majors-anthropology-physics-computer-engineering-jobs-2025-7

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Date: July 19th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: mildly autistic boyish headpube address

what kind of BS article is this? the data is from 2023, which was at the height of tech layoffs. i also check the value of my portfolio with a two year delay. trash journalism likely written by a Liberal Artist

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Date: July 19th, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: Misunderstood property indirect expression

Gen Z doesn't do liberal arts ime. enough prole vocational majors have sprung up for proles for anyone who's Bad at academics but still wants to go to college for some reason. They understand dichotomies. They either do Engineering, embrace proledom, or killself. They don't try to be a boomer echo gen and assume everything will magically work out like millennial liberal artists.

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Date: July 19th, 2025 2:30 PM
Author: Chestnut bossy wagecucks

Yep. Even at elite schools. There was some T20 English prof on Twitter talking about 50% drop in enrollment in lib arts majors over the past ten years. Zoomers got the message. Unfortunately for them, the market for entry level grads got even harder, ever for STEM.

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Date: July 19th, 2025 2:31 PM
Author: hilarious corn cake

very true. my wife is a professor of communications at a TTT and their program is less than half the size it was a decade ago.

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: hilarious corn cake

nope. CS and engineering majors are doing even worse on the job market. h1bs and AI taking all entry level jobs.

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Date: July 19th, 2025 12:26 PM
Author: Misunderstood property indirect expression

Why is it happening like this this time btw?

Early 90s: Gen X fired en masse, same in 2001, 2009, 2020

This time, housing just stays at the sane level it was, along with jobs but there’s no economic activity, just Stasis

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: Shimmering Wonderful Orchestra Pit

Hmm odd case

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Date: July 19th, 2025 12:58 PM
Author: Laughsome zombie-like school

wait till AI really settles in

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:07 PM
Author: Violet blathering pervert rehab

This was always the case. They’ll take retail jobs, etc and become $150k regional managers in 10 years

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Date: July 19th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: Misunderstood property indirect expression

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:08 PM
Author: Cordovan cruise ship

i will pay the young women for sex if they need money

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:19 PM
Author: self-absorbed alpha

Anecdotally I believe it. 3 of my gen z cousins who graduated in recent years have had trouble finding / holding jobs. One of them gave up and is now doing a post Bach to med school route. That generation of kids has no resilience, total mental weaklings.

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:40 PM
Author: Glittery primrose set

what exactly are they supposed to do

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:44 PM
Author: hilarious corn cake

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:45 PM
Author: high-end concupiscible principal's office french chef

Have resilience and stop being mental weaklings

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Date: July 19th, 2025 2:44 PM
Author: Glittery primrose set

wtf are you talking about

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:54 PM
Author: Cordovan cruise ship

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Date: July 19th, 2025 2:42 PM
Author: Misunderstood property indirect expression

Stop being Entitled

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:57 PM
Author: rebellious federal school cafeteria

they're smart enough not to borrow 400K for law center

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: curious maroon background story casino

Maybe move to India for a job since they’re all in america working?

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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:11 PM
Author: Chrome indecent home

That wouldn't work for non-NRIs. In India jobs are divided up according to caste, and you have to know the right people to get hired.

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:46 PM
Author: Excitant hospital

Considering the Gen Zs I have worked with, they deserve to be unemployed

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:57 PM
Author: hilarious corn cake

many of them are not just useless, but create more work for their supervisors

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Date: July 19th, 2025 2:56 PM
Author: Excitant hospital

CR. our gen Z paralegal is the most incompetent person i have ever worked with in my 7 jobs

having to double check everything and redo everything is a mindfuck

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Date: July 19th, 2025 2:34 PM
Author: Stirring area

A lot of Gen Z will only take a job if it pays six figures and is 100% WFH

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Date: July 19th, 2025 7:43 PM
Author: mint boistinker

The sloots just get financed by online simps who send them shekels for nothing, pouring drinks for barsimps who give them egregious tips for nothing or oofy doofy relationship simps who sell themselves into indentured servitude for validation and emotional support.

The “males” just rot away in their parent’s basement.

It’s astonishing how much worse the hobby whore market has gotten even in the last year. The cunny is more entitled, useless and almost exclusively “online” or “platonic”. Clearly any white zoomer whores out there are by no means feeling the hurt from the burgeoning economic apocalypse as there are thousands of simp for each piece of white cunny

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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:04 PM
Author: Sepia learning disabled space

sadly cr

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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:06 PM
Author: Bonkers depressive

Now do 2009-2011 law grads

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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:07 PM
Author: territorial arousing spot

What’s coming will be so bad that era will be completely forgotten

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