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Yoav Shefin
The job market is closing to young people: the share of early-career hires in tech has been cut in half
An article on mako, built on Vort's data, looked at who Israeli tech companies hire. The share of people joining at the start of their careers fell from 29.6% in 2018 to 14.9% in 2025.
- Early-career hires were 29.6% of everyone joining tech companies in 2018, 14.9% in 2025, and about 10.3% so far in 2026.
- Between April 2024 and July 2026, about 20% of Apple's hires in Israel came straight from military service, as did 20% at Bezeq, 18% at Ness, 17% at Rafael and 6% at Google.
- In 2025, the companies that hired the most early-career people were NVIDIA (183), Elbit (140), Check Point (103) and Intel (96).
29.6% → 14.9%
early-career hires, 2018 vs 2025
Read the full article on makoThe original is in Hebrew
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The numbers in these articles come from the same engine as Vort's AI sourcing: aggregate counts from public professional profiles, with no individual identified. Vort publishes more of this data in MOVES, its map of who hires from whom.
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