Every successful career you admire started somewhere less glamorous. Be it a first internship or junior role, the first rung of the career ladder was never particularly prestigious, but it was there, as a starting point from which young people could climb. That rung is being dismantled, one automated task at a time, and it requires an urgent, honest, multistakeholder conversation about how to rebuild it before an entire generation slips through the net. The numbers tell the story. Entry-level j