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This is something that the CEO of Masterclass, David Rogier, calls “messed up”.

“You went, you studied, you interned, you used all these stamps on your passport, almost a proof of, I work hard, I am intelligent, I care – but these things are no longer valued at the workplace,” he said Fortune.

However, Rogier maintains that there are means for young people to stand out on a labor market focused on AI. His advice: choose an industry that arouses your interest, spend a week or two by immersing yourself in its challenges, then use AI to build something that the team does not already have.

“I would do something with the AI ​​that this team does not use or do. I would send it to everyone in this team and I would say: “Look, I built it for you, and I doubt that you have that, and if you commit me, I will build more,” says Rogier. “This will require each recruitment manager to respond to email and wishes to talk to you.

“It will be so far in front of the construction of their internal teams, they will be like, shit, I need it in my team,” he adds. Rogier spoke to Fortune Outside the launch of MasterClass certificates, a new set of career -focused courses in partnership with the best companies like Nvidia and Microsoft.

Use of AI to unlock unique career paths

Although obtaining a four -year diploma has long been the method experienced to launch a career, some 51% of recent graduates of generation Z regret themselves for their decision and consider their post -secondary education as a “waste of money”. This is partly thanks to the employment rates that increase among colleges graduates who have reduced the advantage of the labor market to go to school.

This is why other business leaders echo Rogier’s advice to look beyond traditional paths.

For example, billionaire Mark Cuban says that students who leave university – or even secondary – can take advantage of the fact that, depending on the MIT, 95% of AI pilots in companies fail.

“Learn to personalize a model, get into a business, show the advantages. It is all the work that will be available for children who leave school”, the old Shark tank Star said TBPN last month.

Cuban added that young people should become qualified enough to enter any small business and be able to identify how AI could help. Learning the difference between Video generators fueled by AI, such as Sora d’Opnai and the VEO of Google, and understanding how to personalize AI models is part of this trip, he said.

“There are millions of companies that have one, five, 10, 50, 100, 500 people who will not have AI budgets, who will not have experts in AI. This is where children are hired,” said Cuban.

Associate AI with human skills

Reid Hoffman, the former co -founder of Linkedin, echoes that the secret of success of young people involves learning to “optimize” their careers and spend time understanding for which employers hire – and why.

In an editorial for San Francisco StandardThe billionaire called four specific skills that AI cannot reproduce as those which will be the most requested:

• Emotional intelligence
• Ethical discernment
• Creative expression
• Intention

“People with the ability to train intentions and set goals will emerge as winners in a world mediated by AI,” he wrote.

Likewise, Rogier said that what would ultimately distinguish success will be the ability of candidates to express a desire to adapt and pivot quickly.

“Your ability to learn things quickly is probably the most important competence.”

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