AI is changing the job market for Texas college grads, report finds

The useful part

Majors identified as more exposed include computer science, computer engineering and languages. Nursing, education, and psychology were among the fields identified as less exposed. Amy Hodges said higher education has an important role in helping students develop what she described as durable skills.

How it works

• "So, these sorts of durable skills of working with AI, complementing what it can do and adding two additional levels of oversight, responsibility, ethics.
• During a Texas Senate Economic Development Committee hearing, Senator Angela Paxton discussed the importance of students learning workplace expectations and culture to the technical skills required for a...
• "I work in communication, social sciences, and humanities.
• Those kinds of things are the things I think in higher education and especially in social sciences, humanities fields that we're really working on these days." The fast-moving AI technologies have also...
• Like, if you're going to be late to work, you're suppose...

What to take from it

So, we've been teaching these kinds of durable skills for a long time," Hodges said. "As I've talked to employers in my district, they're one of the things they're dealing with, with new employees are the things that maybe you used to learn in your family.