The chief financial officer of the software group SAP, Luka Mucic, lamented a shortage of talented IT junior staff in Germany. "If we only recruited in Germany, we would not get the skills in quantity, but in part also quality for some topics," said Mucic on Thursday evening in the Stuttgart business press club. "That's why we of course stop global."
Almost every tenth job offer in Germany is aimed at IT specialists. Especially electricians, electricians and electricians currently have good job prospects: 3.7 percent of just under 14,000 evaluated job advertisements were aimed at this professional group, recently showed a labor market report of the testing company Dekra.
SAP has around 100,000 employees, including about 21,000 in Germany, and is one of the most valuable German companies in terms of market capitalization. In international comparison, the group from Walldorf in Baden-Wuerttemberg, but still not in the top 40. The list of the most valuable companies by market value is led by the US companies Apple, Microsoft, the Google mother Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook.
"The train left"
With regard to the state of digitization in a country comparison, Mucic expressed skepticism. "We have definitely lost the consumer Internet to the Americans and now increasingly to the Chinese." As was "the train departed". However, growth opportunities for European IT companies still exist in the field of industrial applications.