Computer scientists and geriatric nurses are urgently needed – and a few others. For more and more vacancies, there are no qualified unemployed, as a new study shows.
The shortage of skilled workers in Germany has worsened significantly in the past year.
The so-called skilled worker gap has more than doubled over the course of the year, reported the competence center for securing skilled workers (Kofa) of the employer-related Institute of German Economics (IW) in its annual review 2021. The number of vacancies for which there were no suitably qualified unemployed persons nationwide increased accordingly from around 213,000 in January to a good 465,000 in December.
According to the study, the growing shortage of skilled workers is affecting the entire labor market. However, the bottlenecks are particularly pronounced in construction planning and supervision, in IT, in geriatric care and in physiotherapy. In purely mathematical terms, on average more than eight out of ten vacancies could not be filled with suitably qualified unemployed people in 2021.
The shortage of skilled workers is not the same in every industry
In general, according to the study, the gap in skilled workers in relation to the vacancies was greatest in the occupational field “Health, social affairs, teaching and education”, closely followed by the field of “Construction, architecture, surveying and building technology”. The shortage of skilled workers has recently become particularly acute in the professional areas of “natural sciences, geography and IT” and “transport, logistics, protection and security”.
According to Kofa, the occupational field “linguistics, literature, humanities, social sciences and economics, media, art, culture and design” recorded the smallest bottlenecks and also the smallest growth over the course of the year.
Source: Stern
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