VOA: Change in the world of work
Abstract
More and more companies cannot fill vacancies because of a lack of skilled workers. Young people today are tech-savvy, constantly online, environmentally aware and demanding.
Securing the skilled labour of tomorrow presents companies today with the important future task of adapting their recruitment strategies to the coming challenges of the world of work.
The demand for personnel in Germany has been consistently high since the beginning of the year, with over 750,000 vacancies advertised.
In addition, according to the Federal Employment Agency (BA), there is a shortage of about 125,000 trainees. The young generation Z has different expectations of their future workplace than, for example, the baby boomer generation. Mit modernen Informationstechnologien gehen sie mühelos um, während analoge Face-to-Face-Kommunikation sie schnell überfordert. This poses a number of new challenges for employers.
In the surface finishing industry, it is already 59 percent of member companies that are feeling the shortage of skilled workers. Im Interview mit mo spricht VOA-Geschäftsführerin Dr. Alexa Becker über die Chance der Unternehmen, die Fachkräfte von morgen zu begeistern.