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According to Bitkom, the German IT trade association, there are 149,000 open IT positions reported in Germany as of 2023-12-13, which is 12,000 more than one ye
by Archelaos 3y ago
According to Bitkom, the German IT trade association, there are 149,000 open IT positions reported in Germany as of 2023-12-13, which is 12,000 more than one year ago.[1] The absolut numbers are not so significant here, because this is only what is reported and a lot of IT positions exist outside of the IT industry in the narrow sense, but the trend is quite meaningful.
[1] Source: https://www.bitkom.org/Presse/Presseinformation/Rekord-Fachkraeftemangel-Deutschland-IT-Jobs-unbesetzt https://www.bitkom.org/Presse/Presseinformation/Rekord-Fachk... (in German)
- probably_wrong 3y agoAs someone who had a difficult time finding a job last year I took a look at press release and I found exactly what I thought I would find: 61% of companies say that the applicants' salary expectations "do not match the company's established salary structure", 35% of them see poor German language skills as a difficulty, and 48% are putting their hopes on AI to solve the skilled workers' shortage. To my cynical eyes this looks like "we want skilled workers, we want them to speak fluent German, and we want them cheap". And as the saying goes, you can choose two of those things but rarely all three.