Gastronomy, trade, industry
A good half of training companies cannot find an apprentice
08/23/2023 11:56 am
It has been a problem for years that many training positions are not filled. According to the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce, it is now at an all-time high. One reason for this is demographic change.
More and more companies cannot find enough trainees. At 47 percent, almost half of the training companies in the area of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce are affected – this is a new all-time high, as reported by the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK). Businesses in gastronomy, industry and trade are particularly desperate for trainees.
As the current training survey by the DIHK also revealed, the reasons for the shortage are varied. The years are getting thinner and thinner due to demographic change – according to the DIHK, there are around 100,000 fewer school leavers today than there were ten years ago.
“Lack of professional orientation”
In addition, there is now an “intermediate phase after leaving school, in which many young people do not yet know what to do,” explained the deputy DIHK general manager Achim Dercks. Therefore, the “lack of professional orientation” is a second major problem for the training market. According to the DIHK, eight out of ten companies want to intensify their commitment here.
The training report is based on the companies’ experiences over the past year. According to a water level report from the Chambers of Industry and Commerce (IHK) on this year’s contracts, there is hope: by the end of July, almost 207,000 new training contracts were counted in the IHK area, which is 3.7 percent more than in the same month last year. However, a forecast for the year as a whole is not yet possible.
It is interesting that the number of high school graduates who do vocational training after school has risen in recent years. In 2011, the proportion was still 23.0 percent, ten years later it was 29.7 percent, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office. The proportion of trainees with a secondary school leaving certificate remained almost unchanged at a good 41 percent, while the proportion of lower secondary school graduates fell from 31.6 percent to 24.0 percent. 2.8 percent of the trainees remained without a school-leaving certificate.