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As undergraduate degrees have lost their payoffs thanks to AI, young people have turned to advanced schooling to unlock jobs with salaries exceeding $200,000 (or in some cases, a $100 million signing bonus). However, one former Google leader says Gen Z should not be so fast to jump on the PhD train, as even doctoral degrees may have lost their …

For Gen Z, landing a job isn’t just about who you know — it’s about when you graduated. Monica Para is one of the lucky ones. She landed a software engineering job in the fall of 2022, several months before graduating with a computer science degree from the University of Illinois. She said the salary has allowed her to travel …