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What exactly is it about?

While the industry warns of the shortage of skilled workers with new panic reports, tens of thousands of well-trained and highly motivated German engineers are looking for a job. How does that fit together?

Pia Dangelmayer and Wolfgang Kerler compiled this article for report MÜNCHEN. For the article they also researched on Best of HR - Berufebilder.de® and collected all sorts of insights and figures that were no longer so new for me.

Who was interviewed?

The article quotes a few good friends who have cropped up again and again over the course of several years of discussion. About Prof. Gerd Bosbach, Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, who in a panel discussion the statistical lies of our Society takes aim.

Marco Dadomo, press spokesman of the Association of German Engineers eV, who is not only on Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®, but also continued to insist on the story of the shortage of skilled workers in the report broadcast. And finally Tanja Mett-Bialas, an engineer for communications technology printing, who cannot find a job. Because for years the Association of German Engineers has been warning of the shortage of skilled workers, but now it suddenly doesn't exist. Apparently the reaction to media reports.

Media reports, number games and mass withdrawals from the VDI

Already 2010 predicted the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry that until 2015 almost 50 percent of Company would expect a shortage of skilled workers. Likewise, 2012 also announced studies by Forsa or Kienbaum.

And according to the Association of German Engineers in Germany even 80.000 engineers are missing. This figure has been calculated by the VDI by multiplying the number of posts notified to the Federal Agency for Employment by seven. Reason: According to a survey of 2009, only every seventh place of the employment agency is also reported.

The absurdity of such numbers has been pointed out again and again - by various experts who appeared in the said ARD program, by book author Martin Gaedt and also by us again and again Best of HR – Berufebilder.de® and in media like Welt or business week. Yes, there was even one large-scale action, which called for the general withdrawal from the VDI.

VDI rowed back

The VDI was extremely unimpressed, almost arrogant. Stoisch was repeatedly explained that one must expect in any case with a skilled labor force deficit.

And now this: The VDI is rowing back – but of course it won't admit it. Suddenly even an engineer surplus instead of shortage is the one Rede. So in a contribution of FAZ Michael Schwartz, Head of Division Strategy and Communication at the VDI, quoted with the following statements:

On the one hand, the dropout rate in engineering courses has fallen from 45 percent to 35 percent within two years. On the other hand, the advertising was about Women worth it. In technical jobs, they are still outnumbered by their male colleagues. But their share is slowly increasing. And in the medium term it is noticeable that a year ago two Abitur classes finished school and one Study have recorded. Therefore, in five years' time, a large group of young engineers will be entering the job market.

From lack to surplus

So the constant media reports on the topic have not passed so completely without a trace at the VDI. It seems so. But of course they would not admit it.

So let's summarize: No huge shortage of skilled workers among engineers that is affecting Germany as a business location. Not even a gap. Instead, there is suddenly a shortage of skilled workers IT.


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