‘I’ve £90k in student debt – for what?’ Graduates share their job-hunting woes amid the AI fallout

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Susie, from Sheffield, was unemployed for nine months after she graduated with a PhD last year, despite having applied to more than 700 jobs.

“I assumed it wouldn’t be too hard to find a job [with three higher education qualifications],” she said. “However, I often spent a whole day applying for a job, tailoring my CV and cover letter, only to be rejected two minutes later with a comment saying my documents had been ‘carefully reviewed’. About 70% of jobs I didn’t hear back from at all, including some I had attended multiple rounds of interviews for.”