{"id":1038440,"date":"2026-09-25T07:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038440"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:23:56","slug":"as-the-coding-boom-fades-computer-science-grads-focus-on-ai-skills-in-choppy-job-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/25\/as-the-coding-boom-fades-computer-science-grads-focus-on-ai-skills-in-choppy-job-market\/","title":{"rendered":"As the coding boom fades, computer science grads focus on AI skills in choppy job market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer science student Jack Zemke was getting nowhere despite sending out hundreds of job applications that mostly disappeared into the void &#8211; ignored. <\/p>\n<p>With his graduation from Tulane University just days away, he was considering moving back in with his parents when he got a break thanks to a group project he had worked on involving an AI-powered search tool. As he touted it at an engineering conference, an employee at a civil engineering firm approached. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not like the most on top of trends, but we know that AI is becoming a big thing,&#8221; he recalled the man saying. &#8220;We need somebody to be essentially an evangelist.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer science student Jack Zemke was getting nowhere despite sending out hundreds of job applications that mostly disappeared into the void &#8211; ignored. With his graduation from Tulane University just days away, he was considering moving back in with his parents when he got a break thanks to a group project he had worked on involving an AI-powered search tool. As he touted it at an engineering conference, an employee at a civil engineering firm approached. &#8220;We&#8217;re not like the most on top of trends, but we know that AI is becoming a big thing,&#8221; he recalled the man saying. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038464,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038440\/revisions\/1038464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}