Aug 24, 2026 · 16 min · 4 segments
Liv and Marian have a lot to say. *One More Thing* is where the overflow goes. This one is from Episode 3, continuing the conversation with Chris Webb. If you're a graduate right now, applying into…
Liv PennieHost
Marian WrightHost
It is like, it's kind of unprecedented apart from COVID that we've all been through this We don't know all at the same time.

But if we look at that mechanism that certain tasks within jobs can be automated and make the assumption that, okay, companies will, if they can, in the short term, automate those tasks to be more productive.

And that those tasks, say management consultancy or advertising or those kind of agencies that really rely on graduates or new early entry, early career people, learning on the job, that organic learning that only comes from being there, probably doing the mundane, you know, the project timelines, the account management, those things where you're organically hearing the judgment calls of the people more senior than you and building up that critical thinking and those perspectives through the experience that will allow you to move into those roles, then we can see that without that experience, you know, the pipeline is completely And that's kind of what I what I said to the teachers.

I said, all I can say is that this is a massive issue for the biggest companies in the world with the deepest pockets because their talent pipeline relies on the entry level jobs.

delivering the learning that will lead to senior people with the capacity to lead the business and tackle critical problems and be creative in their roles.

But I think when schools obviously are grappling with, what do we do? What's the role of AI in education generally? What's the damage to learning and the development of critical thinking? that is happening and i think looking at those entry-level jobs and the the actions that companies are already taking to address that gap and that pipeline give us hope actually about about what education can take out of that as well

It is like, it's kind of unprecedented apart from COVID that we've all been through this We don't know all at the same time.

But if we look at that mechanism that certain tasks within jobs can be automated and make the assumption that, okay, companies will, if they can, in the short term, automate those tasks to be more productive.

And that those tasks, say management consultancy or advertising or those kind of agencies that really rely on graduates or new early entry, early career people, learning on the job, that organic learning that only comes from being there, probably doing the mundane, you know, the project timelines, the account management, those things where you're organically hearing the judgment calls of the people more senior than you and building up that critical thinking and those perspectives through the experience that will allow you to move into those roles, then we can see that without that experience, you know, the pipeline is completely And that's kind of what I what I said to the teachers.

I said, all I can say is that this is a massive issue for the biggest companies in the world with the deepest pockets because their talent pipeline relies on the entry level jobs.

delivering the learning that will lead to senior people with the capacity to lead the business and tackle critical problems and be creative in their roles.

But I think when schools obviously are grappling with, what do we do? What's the role of AI in education generally? What's the damage to learning and the development of critical thinking? that is happening and i think looking at those entry-level jobs and the the actions that companies are already taking to address that gap and that pipeline give us hope actually about about what education can take out of that as well
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