The labor market is suffering from the corona pandemic.
But there is also good news: In some areas there are currently more job advertisements.
Compared to January last year, the German labor market has
511,000 more unemployed people
this year
.
Since December, the unemployment rate has also risen by 0.5 to 6.4 percent - but this is largely due
to seasonal
factors, reports the StepStone online job platform.
The biggest driver of these numbers is of course the corona pandemic, which has been
forcing
the Germans into a
stricter lockdown
again since November 2020
.
While many employees are now worried about when the employer has to pay for the expensive FFP2 masks * or what happens if you have to be quarantined during your vacation, the unemployed are faced with an
apparently unpromising job search
.
In some areas, however, this search
is not that difficult
- in this article we will show you where.
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Good job opportunities despite corona lockdown: these areas are promising
A look at the job market is currently giving cause for
cautious optimism
.
In the second week of January 2021, there are
14 percent more job postings
on StepStone.de than in November 2020, when the stricter lockdown had been agreed.
We are currently looking for
new employees
in the following areas in particular
:
Banks, financial services and insurance
:
42 percent
more new jobs
are currently being
advertised
in these areas
than at the beginning of the lockdown in November.
Scientific research
:
26 percent
more new jobs are advertised here than in November.
Marketing
: The number of newly advertised jobs in this area has increased by
25 percent
since the lockdown began.
Crafts
: The number of newly advertised jobs also increased in this sector.
By
21 percent
to be precise.
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Optimism beyond the pandemic
The StepStone experts predict that there will be another
significant increase in job advertisements
as soon as the Corona situation eases and the measures are relaxed again.
StepStone labor market expert Dr.
Tobias Zimmermann is also sure that many companies now have the time
to access talent
that they would otherwise find difficult to attract.
Now is therefore the time to position yourself
optimally for the future
and to lay the foundations to get started
after the corona pandemic
.
(fh) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen central editorial network.
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