Brad Smith

I think I might be hiring the same number of people.

I think they might be doing different things than in the past.

I do think that entry-level work inevitably is changing.

Instead of coming in and just doing one thing and it may be more the basic research or checking of citations or sources, I think entry-level work may become a little bit more like apprenticeships.

It may become something where you want people to be exposed to multiple different tasks and skills for the first year or two.

I think this is a great time for employers that are farsighted.

What do you really care about the most if you're a great employer when you're hiring someone new?

Is it somebody who's going to do something that needs to get done for the next six months but may not be all that demanding?

Or are you hiring people who are going to become the employees that will lead your firm into the future?

The people who three and five and ten years from now are likely to be sparking the innovation you need.

That, I think, is and often should be at the heart of what great employers are looking for.

Right now, we all know it's a tough job market for people graduating from universities.

but flip that on its head, it's a great time for employers who are farsighted, who care about talent, who want to invest in people, who are going to build the workforce, not just for the next year, but for the next decade and beyond.

I think that's what we want to be at Microsoft.

I think that's what everybody who really has a long-term vision should aspire to do, and we need to make AI

and AI tools and AI skills a fundamental ingredient for everybody that we hire in that way.

Well, I think it remains a critically important partnership for Microsoft.

We bet on each other.

but it's not as exclusive as it was, say, a few years ago.

OpenAI uses our compute, they train models in our data centers, but they work with other companies as well.