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AI Taking Jobs? Entry-Level Careers and Skills in the AI Era
Is AI taking entry-level jobs, or changing what makes a strong candidate? In this HR.com interview excerpt, RemotePeople CEO Antoine Boquen explains why junior hiring still matters and how adaptability, AI fluency and practical skills can change the value of experience.
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Format
Interview excerpt
Duration
3:45
Published
September 17, 2026
About This Video
Antoine Boquen joins Brent Skinner on HR.com’s Future of Payroll and Workforce Management podcast to discuss AI and the early-career talent pipeline. He argues that employers still need to recruit juniors if they want to develop tomorrow’s managers and leaders.
The discussion then turns to technological change. Long experience remains valuable, but familiarity with an old process is not the same as the ability to work well with new tools. Boquen describes junior hiring patterns he has observed among RemotePeople customers across finance, engineering, operations and sales. These are interview observations, not a measured claim that junior candidates outperform experienced workers across the entire labour market.
This 3:45 excerpt focuses on hiring decisions and career development. For the broader conversation about AI, compensation and global talent, watch The Future of Work Is Borderless.
What You'll See
- 0:00: Why junior recruitment supports future leadership.
- 1:01: Keeping an entry-level hiring pipeline as work changes.
- 1:30: How companies are adopting AI.
- 2:13: Experience, adaptability and technological change.
- 2:46: Junior hiring patterns Boquen has observed.
- 3:23: The value of adopting new technology.
Why It Matters for Global Hiring
AI changes the tasks a team needs to perform, so hiring criteria should reflect the work rather than rely only on years of experience. Use practical assessments to understand how a candidate reasons, learns and applies tools, then provide the supervision and development the role requires. For more context, watch AI-Proof Jobs: Trust and Reasoning, or explore RemotePeople’s international recruitment and Employer of Record services for building a team across borders.
Who Should Watch
HR leaders, recruiters and hiring managers reviewing entry-level roles, plus students and early-career professionals considering how to develop useful skills as AI tools evolve.
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Frequently asked questions
RemotePeople’s Antoine Boquen discusses junior hiring as workplace tools change.
RemotePeople’s Antoine Boquen discusses how AI can change tasks within entry-level roles, with effects differing across occupations and employers. Exposure to AI does not prove a whole job will disappear. He argues that junior recruitment remains necessary to develop future leaders; his customer observations are not a forecast for the whole labour market.
RemotePeople’s Antoine Boquen argues that junior hiring develops the people who can become a company’s future specialists and leaders. Stopping entry-level recruitment can create a longer-term development problem. Employers still need to provide supervision, practical experience and opportunities to learn as tools and responsibilities change.
RemotePeople’s interview highlights adaptability, practical problem-solving and the ability to use and check relevant AI tools. Candidates should explain what they did, how they evaluated the result and what they would improve. Assess those capabilities alongside experience, rather than assuming age or seniority determines AI fluency.
