How to keep your IT talent pipeline from collapsing

The transformative lure of AI is rapidly pushing IT leaders’ talent pipelines toward more of a crossroads than many may fully want to admit. The traditional approach of growing IT expertise in-house from entry-level positions is being challenged by a combination of skills-demand shifts toward AI experience and the replacement of entry-level roles in favor of AI automation. Employment among early-career workers, ages 22 to 25, in the most AI-exposed occupations has fallen 16% since the introducti