Can good AI help you find a high paying job?

AI is among the most important skills in today's job market. Whether you become a user or abuser of this technology will determine your future job.

Understanding AI will help you get ahead in this era. Photo: New York Times.

Artificial intelligence is causing a disruption in the labor market. Many experts say the technology brings economic value and unprecedented progress, but also creates new jobs.

According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs 2025 report, AI and big data are among the fastest growing skills, along with technology-related jobs. The report predicts that many jobs will be replaced, widening the skills gap in the market.

Not only that, right from school, AI has caused many impacts on students. The number of jobs is somewhat reduced, but it creates many opportunities for those who have a good grasp of this technology.

Finding the “starting point” is difficult

According to the General Statistics Office, the unemployment rate for youth aged 15-24 in the first quarter of 2025 was 7.93%, a decrease but not significant. This could change significantly in the coming years.

In an interview with Axios in May 2025, Dario Amodei, CEO of AI company Anthropic, stated that 50% of entry-level jobs will be eliminated by AI within 5 years. Although not as high as experts imagine, the numbers are not very optimistic.

The unemployment rate for U.S. workers aged 22 to 27 with a bachelor's degree or higher has surpassed 5.3%, according to the latest comprehensive data available through early 2025. This is the highest level since August 2021, the New York Federal Reserve said.

The comments of the father of Claude AI have caused a storm on social networks recently. Photo: CNN.

Oxford Economics even notes that, for the first time since 1980, the unemployment rate for recent graduates has consistently exceeded the national average. Matthew Martin from the organization confirms that “AI has definitely replaced some lower-level jobs.” These are jobs that are repetitive, or more simple tasks like creating PowerPoint presentations, calculating numbers, summarizing text.

Solving these problems is AI’s strong point. Recently, along with Google and Photoshop, ChatGPT has gradually become a verb. When there is a problem that is not too complicated, or needs a quick query, many people often suggest “Ask ChatGPT”, as a useful tool.

Agreeing, Mr. Geoffrey Hinton, who used to work at Google and is known as the “Father of AI”, said that artificial intelligence has begun to be used for jobs favored by new graduates. Today’s workers need to have an outstanding skill set. In addition, with the presence of chatbots, one person has to do the workload of many others, which means massive staff cuts.

Good and bad differentiation

To solve this problem, some companies have started to approach candidates while they are still in school. Universities have teamed up with human resource training companies to assign some practical projects for students to do during their study program.

However, this has caused a divide between the trained students and the rest. Mr. Ho Quoc Tuan, Director of the Master of Finance & Accounting Training Program at the University of Bristol, wrote in his blog that some excellent students were even recruited directly into official positions with salaries many times higher.

Kieu Trang (born in 2002), a student majoring in Computer Science at Ton Duc Thang University, shared that many of her classmates have had internships since their third year. Up to now, although the school has organized many job fairs to help students have internship opportunities, employers will still prioritize talented students.

Director Nam Long is 13 years old with a passion for programming. Photo: NVCC.

Recently, the story of Nam Long, a 13-year-old boy, who is currently the Director of Growth at a technology company, has been circulating on social media. Thanks to his outstanding programming skills and fluency in English, Long has been invited to intern at 6 large corporations.

It is the passion for programming and the nature of self-discovery that has greatly contributed to Long's deep understanding of technology. On the other hand, Mr. Quoc Tuan believes that with the integration of AI into the classroom as it is today, a number of students have used this technology to pass the subject, without really understanding what they are learning.

Chatbots can summarize and search for information, but often miss some important details and cannot replace human synthesis. “These people gradually become AI users, but they do not have the ability to think independently,” Mr. Tuan wrote.

Understanding and acquiring the necessary knowledge about AI in the near future can help users avoid disadvantages in career development. In addition, developing some soft skills such as critical thinking and self-learning are also necessary in this new era.

Source: https://znews.vn/gioi-ai-co-tim-duoc-viec-luong-cao-post1561674.html