AI-focused graduate jobs raise questions over learning the trade
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Some UK employers are giving graduates dedicated roles managing AI agents and automating work, with responsibilities beyond traditional entry-level tasks. But executives and graduates also highlight a tension: building AI expertise while gaining the professional knowledge needed for longer careers.
UK graduates are taking on specialised AI jobs in public relations, engineering software and consultancy, according to BBC reporting. At London PR agency Fight or Flight, Lotte Underwood manages AI agents and checks their outputs for colleagues. At Stride, Dillan Patel develops internal agents and identifies repetitive tasks that could be automated.
Employers differ over how to balance that work with professional training. Contact centre company ArvatoConnect has paused its usual graduate intake this year, but plans to restart next year with greater emphasis on AI. Portman Finance Group instead centres its graduate programme on learning financial products, customer relationships and transactions. PwC executive Claire Reid argues that AI skills need to be paired with sector knowledge.
The training question is already tangible for Underwood, who says she has yet to pitch directly to the media. Separately, PwC’s analysis of 2.4 million US entry-level jobs found that roles most influenced by AI were seven times more likely to require traditionally senior skills. Those findings do not establish long-term career outcomes.
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