AI impacting entry-level employment prospects

With South Africa’s unemployment rate sitting at 32.7% and more than 200,000 graduates preparing to enter an increasingly AI-driven workforce, the country faces a growing employability crisis: graduates are being trained for jobs that are rapidly disappearing.

Entry-level roles once considered stepping stones into the economy including administrative support, customer service, junior analytics and clerical functions are now among the first to be automated by artificial intelligence technologies.

Exec Dean at IIE Rosebank College, Dr Oliver Seale joins us to unpack this.

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