Why This Matters – Why Employability Feels Broken Today
Employability didn’t become broken overnight.
It slowly drifted out of sync with how work, technology, and organizations actually evolved.
- Academic scores worked when careers were linear
- Indices multiplied when complexity increased
- Employers optimized hiring tools
- Candidates optimized test-taking
- Somewhere in between, meaning was lost
What once worked well - academic scores, standardized assessments, and early-career filtering - now struggles to explain real-world performance, adaptability, and long-term fit.
AI makes it possible to move beyond outdated scores and indices by understanding employability as a living, evolving capability rather than a static measurement.
This unpacks how we got here - without blaming individuals on either side.
If the problem is structural, the solution can’t be another patchwork fix howsoever urgent that may be!