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Ellis sees a different future. Rather than eliminating graduate positions, IBM Consulting is actively increasing them.

“So, for example, we are increasing, not decreasing, the number of graduate hires that we’re making here in Australia,” he says.

Investing in the future
The reasoning is both strategic and generational. Today’s graduates enter the workforce with a crucial advantage – they’ve been using AI longer than most experienced workers.

“We have people entering the workforce that have perhaps been using AI longer than many others. Maybe they’ve been using it through their studies. Maybe they’ve just got a deeper affinity to it,” Ellis explains.

When properly equipped and trained, these AI-native workers can be a huge asset to organizations.

“We can skill them, we can equip them, we can give them the confidence to be much more effective than you or I might have been at the beginning of our careers,” he says.