Taylor Telford

What is happening is that entry-level roles are kind of starting to look a lot more like management than they used to.

The kinds of things that we're now seeing more common in some of these entry-level roles are they're asking for skills that are a lot more like what we would typically see for somebody who's more experienced, who's had more time to learn how to do things like manage people and manage projects.

And so what we're seeing is that actually older workers are really having an easier time in this market.

What's interesting right now is that the economy is doing really well and we're still having all of these conditions where post-grads are in some cases spending one year, two years, three years applying to jobs without getting anything in the realm of what they studied.

She spent basically 14 months now applying to different jobs.

She's done networking.

She's spent a lifetime on LinkedIn, it feels like to her, applying and working.

also doing a lot of upskilling, trying to make herself more hireable with new certifications.

And after all of that time, all that she has to show for it is a paid internship, which she is admittedly really grateful for.

But it just goes to show that in this situation, folks are just having a really hard time breaking in.

There's also the aspect of huge financial pressure that is definitely keeping retirement maybe more out of reach for a lot of people than they might have thought.

Inflation has really driven up the cost of living in the past couple of years, especially the cost of stuff like housing and transportation and food.

And so for a lot of people, they might have thought that they would have been ready to be out of the workforce at 65, but some of them are actually even un-retiring in this environment.

And in a lot of cases,

They're rejoining the workforce because of that financial pressure.