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Unfilled Apprenticeships in Saxony: Over 10,000 Training Positions Remain Vacant
Roughly 10,000 apprenticeships, reported by Saxony companies at the beginning of the training year in October, remain unfilled. According to the Saxony regional directorate of the Federal Employment Agency, the total number of training positions reached 16,500. This signifies close to 60% of the positions have yet to be filled.
Steffen Leonhardi, the deputy head of the Saxony regional directorate of the Federal Employment Agency, stated there is approximately one training position available for every registered applicant in Saxony. He emphasized the importance of facilitating connections between undecided youth and companies seeking apprentices. The industries with the most training positions reported are retail merchants, salespersons, and mechatronics engineers.
The abundance of vacant apprenticeships in Saxony can be attributed to numerous factors, including demographic trends, academic vs. vocational preferences, geographical mismatches, skills mismatches, and negative perceptions of certain trades or industries. Appealing to diverse groups, such as girls and immigrants, offers potential solutions to bridge the gap between available apprenticeships and registered applicants.
Careaous efforts and collaboration between government, educational institutions, and employers can help address these challenges by implementing public campaigns to promote vocational training, providing language support, offering financial incentives, enhancing employer-applicant matching, and empowering diverse recruitment. These strategies can reduce the discrepancy between unfilled training positions and registered applicants in Saxony.
In EC countries, there is a need for collaborative efforts among government, educational institutions, and employers to finance and implement public campaigns that promote vocational training in businesses like those in Saxony. This could help bridge the gap between the unfilled apprenticeships, particularly in industries such as retail merchants, salespersons, and mechatronics engineers, and the registered applicants.
Education-and-self-development opportunities can be expanded by offering financial incentives for vocational training and enhancing employer-applicant matching processes, which could encourage more undecided youth and diverse groups, including girls and immigrants, to pursue apprenticeships and address the 60% of unfilled training positions in Saxony.
