How Gen Z can stand out in the job market in the world of AI: Focus on tasks, not titles

"That doesn't mean a jobs cliff is imminent, said James Ransom, a research fellow at University College London, who studies the impact of AI on work. But it does mean the rules of entry into the job market are changing fast - and the smartest move isn't to chase prestigious titles, he said, but to understand the tasks inside those jobs, then show how you can supervise and scale AI to do them more effectively."

"I do think in the short term there's a potential productivity dividend, or a windfall that people need to be trying to grab," Ransom told Business Insider. "That doesn't mean that you just wholeheartedly embrace AI for the sake of it. It does mean critically looking at what it might do - particularly things where a human is still needed in the loop, but they might be able to be supercharged in what they do," he said."

"Ransom's thinking builds on research from global institutions, including the IMF, OECD, and the World Bank, which have mapped automation risk by breaking jobs into their component tasks. Ramson specifically pointed to an International Labour Organization report released in May. It found that few jobs are fully automatable, since most include tasks that require human input - a nuance Ramson said is often lost when people label entire jobs as either secure or doomed."

Gen Z is entering a labor market reshaped by AI pilots, hiring freezes, and cautious managers. The rules of entry are changing, so prioritizing the component tasks of roles and the ability to supervise and scale AI is more strategic than chasing prestigious titles. Short-term productivity gains may be available for workers who identify tasks where human judgment and oversight remain necessary and can be augmented by AI. Breaking jobs into tasks shows few positions are fully automatable because many tasks require human input such as team management and quality checking.

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