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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-sub-2026q3/newsletters?i=46b1a5fd-355a-49ed-b470-ccfa13b5c075&cr=time-sub-2026q3-v1) * TIME Subscriptions: [time.com/subscribe-agent](/c/time-sub-2026q3/subscribe?i=46b1a5fd-355a-49ed-b470-ccfa13b5c075&cr=time-sub-2026q3-v1)  by [Michelle Peng](https://time.com/author/michelle-peng/) Oct 11, 2026 10:30 AM UTC  Art: Charter  by [Michelle Peng](https://time.com/author/michelle-peng/) Oct 11, 2026 10:30 AM UTC **_Editor’s Note:_** _This week Charter published our latest research playbook,_ _“Redesigning work for the AI era,” which focuses on how companies are revamping jobs, teams, and the shape of their organizations in the age of AI. It’s full of research and case studies from companies such as EY and Zapier, and we developed it in partnership with Council Advisors. The conversation below is an excerpt from the new playbook, which you can download_ [_here_](https://www.charterworks.com/download-redesigning-work-for-the-ai-era/)_._ While AI threatens to transform every aspect of business, workers and employers alike have paid particular interest to its effect on entry-level employees as the market for junior workers remains weak. [Joseph Fuller](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephbfuller/), a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and co-founder of the consulting firm Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte), has studied the promise and perils of AI for the youngest workers closely, while working directly with large companies on designing better recruiting, onboarding, and training programs for entry-level employees. “It's pretty clear now that there has been a significant curtailment of job postings for entry-level positions in sectors that are the most exposed to AI, such as financial services or software,” says Fuller. “The contents of job descriptions are also changing at a historically high rate.” Sign up for Charter's newsletter to get the handbook for the future of work delivered to your inbox. Email Address You can unsubscribe at any time. By signing up you are agreeing to our [Terms of Service](https://www.charterworks.com/terms-of-service/) and [Privacy Policy](https://www.charterworks.com/privacy-policy/). We spoke with Fuller about the state of entry-level work now, approaches to redesigning roles for young workers, and the hiring and onboarding practices that get the most out of junior employees. Here are excerpts from our conversation, edited for length and clarity: **How do you recommend companies restructure roles to get the most out of their entry-level hires?** The people who get value out of AI are those with outstanding contextual intelligence, who can interact with the models to get value out of them, and who avoid \[getting\] errors from them. If you are beginning to retrench your entry-level hiring, don't forget that you can't have a 10-year-old if you don’t have a one-year-old. The people who've got contextual intelligence now once didn't have any, and they got it through experiential learning. If AI is making your currently defined entry-level role uneconomical, change the job description. Include new tasks that you didn't historically assign to people as entry-level positions that will cause the economics to go back to \[being\] acceptable to you. Think about what you’re going to need seven or eight years from now. At one tech company I worked with, we looked at the shortcomings of the senior software engineers. Often they're excellent senior software engineers, but they really don't know anything about product management and they really haven't spent much time with customers. We decided to take all the young workers who were beginning to get experiential learning on the technical side, and have them be part of product management teams and go on sales calls with people selling that product. You’re basically pre-positioning them by broadening their horizons and not having them be in a silo. **Given the renewed importance of contextual intelligence, problem-solving, and creativity, how should companies rethink hiring to evaluate these kinds of skills?** Provide a work-based learning opportunity. You want a couple of looks, and you want them to really experience the place so they don't have the shock that hits everybody who becomes an investment banking analyst—that this is even worse than the horror stories. You don't want a recruit who doesn't know enough to know whether they're going to quit in a year. As an employer, I also don't want to hire somebody I have to fire within a year. Everything I can do to reduce those costs of involuntary attrition becomes important, especially in an era of contextual intelligence being critical to productivity. **How can hiring managers redesign interviews to assess these skills?** In hiring, interviews have to include much more, so you've got to structure the interviewing process so different people are covering different material in different ways. There's compelling data that show that if you pick some high performers at several different levels in your consulting firm to interview someone, they all go to the same conference room and they're basically going to have the same conversation. They'll basically all agree. Interviewers also have to be taught to keep the recruit talking. From my research, it's very clear that \[candidates are\] more likely to get an offer the more an interviewer talks. The talk should be pretty overt tests. Better companies are increasing not just direct interviews earlier, but physical face-to-face \[interviews\]. There's something called a tell \[in poker\]. You start picking up on the small facial expressions or eye movements that tell you whether or not someone’s bluffing. We all pick up on a lot of these subconscious cues pretty quickly, but\[during video interviews\], I'm not getting the precise pitch of your voice. I'm sitting far enough back that you probably can't pick out if I'm slightly looking up or to the side with my eyes when I'm answering a question. _We hope you’ll explore our latest playbook for ideas from top companies, insights from experts on developing leaders, and the latest research you should know. 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