The entry-level job is disappearing. The entry-level manager cannot.
Dr. Vandana Ahuja Professor & Director SIBM, Noida Across industries, the bottom rung of the career ladder is quietly vanishing. AI now drafts the first report, cleans the first dataset, and summarises the first research brief. The tasks that once trained a fresher for eighteen months are increasingly being completed in eighteen seconds. For students preparing to enter the workforce, this raises a real and uncomfortable question. If the tasks that once taught us the job are disappearing, how do we learn to lead it? The answer cannot be to compete with AI at routine, repetitive work. That was never really the point of entry-level experience. It has to be to enter the workforce already capable of what AI still cannot do: framing the right problem, reasoning through incomplete information, and taking responsibility for a decision. At SIBM NOIDA, this is why we do not measure a student's readiness by how efficiently they can execute a task. We measure it by ho...