Advertising & Public Relations
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until AI starts cutting hiring for this major’s grads
Sep 24, 2027 · 342 days left
AI already writes copy, proposals, media plans and press releases, and advertisers are bringing AI in-house, so junior agency jobs shrink first. Only PR, where media relations and crisis response remain, lags slightly, and there is no license requirement to hold hiring up.
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Advertising & Public Relations: how AI affects graduate hiring
Advertising and PR programs place graduates into agency seats writing copy and building media plans, work that clients increasingly pull in-house once AI can do it directly for them. YOU'RE NEXT dates that squeeze on junior hiring to around 2027, among the earliest majors we track.
Why does hiring pressure hit this major so early?
An advertiser no longer needs an outside agency to draft copy or build a media plan once AI does that work well and an in-house marketing team can run it directly. That double pressure — AI doing the writing, and clients pulling the work in-house — reaches junior agency jobs earlier than in most other majors we track.
How does a copywriter's path compare to a PR specialist's?
A copywriter role, built on the kind of text AI writes best, is judged to be replaced soonest of the paths from this major. Public-relations work is judged to hold on somewhat longer, since managing a journalist relationship or handling a crisis in real time still calls for a person in the room, not a draft.
What can an advertising or PR student do differently?
Build real relationships with journalists and clients, not just a folder of writing samples, since that trust is the part of the job hardest for AI to take over. Get quick at using an AI tool to produce a first draft, and put the time you save into strategy and pitching, the work that still needs a person's judgment.
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