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Carpentry: Job opportunities are currently better than ever
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Many craft businesses are desperately looking for trainees.
There is a "blatant lack of applicants," according to a survey by the Central Association of German Crafts on the training situation.
The new crafts president Jörg Dittrich said that the crafts businesses would continue to have a great will to train.
»But there is a lack of applicants for the vacant apprenticeships.«
The job opportunities are currently better than ever before.
"Qualified specialists and managers in the trades will be needed for all modernization tasks in the future," says Dittrich.
A paper by the association states that the search for trainees is becoming increasingly difficult.
The reasons given are the demographic development, the trend towards higher school qualifications as well as the increased inclination to study and a growing interest in training in the care and education sector.
In the survey, 27 percent of the craft businesses stated that they were providing training.
However, without the currently glaring shortage of applicants, this proportion would be significantly higher, it said.
Every second craft business stated that it could not find any suitable applicants for open training positions.
For example, the reading, writing and arithmetic skills of trainees beginning their training have deteriorated noticeably over the past ten years.
The trade is currently missing several hundred thousand skilled workers.
This gap threatens to widen again in the coming years.
Dittrich criticized: “Young people in schools and especially in high schools have not yet learned enough about how digital, job security and, above all, meaningful the craft is, because there is still no nationwide career orientation on the possibilities of vocational training and further education.”
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