Monday, August 1, 2011

Even skilled workers threatens the study indicates that unemployment

Despite the shortages of skilled workers seem to lose many skilled workers their jobs. Have as in the first half of this year, with 110,000 employees university or technical school diploma registered as unemployed, reported the "Saarbrücken Newspaper", citing a study by the German Trade Union Federation (DGB). That was 3.6 percent of all employees with the appropriate level of education.


An employee in the Laser Center of the Rostock company IMG.
During the same period were 908 000 unemployed workers with occupational training - 5.7 percent of more than 16 million employees in this category.

How does that fit together with the warnings of an impending skills shortage? After all, the federal government to ease immigration rules, the Federal Employment Agency had recently stated that in future increasingly looking abroad for suitable applicants.

The labor market expert at the DGB, Wilhelm Adamy suspected in the newspaper that many professionals would be qualified to meet the needs of the labor market over and operated many companies in their training long-term workforce planning.


Relaxation training on the market

For young people looking for a job this year, the situation is relatively good in contrast. It would be far less in the fall give unserved applicants than in the past, the board member of the Federal Labour Agency, said Heinrich Alt, the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". The good economic and demographic changes meant that the companies are more often a lack of talent.

The BA board member sees the employment service while facing new challenges. "We are in the good job situation now on the hard-core unemployed," said Alt. There are currently 1.2 million people under 30 without qualifications. He called for new priorities of financial aid, should the future more difficult for the company to training young people rather than put on career preparation. In addition, training time should be extended if necessary, if trainees needed additional time to create tests.

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