20 percent increase. How to face the shortage in skilled workers? In Germany, trying to answer this question has become an obsession for HR departments. In a highly competitive environment, demographic ageing combined with the increasing specialization and sophistication of jobs are posing a real problem in terms of talent recruitment and knowledge management. In 2009, the German industry was missing 60,000 engineers and scientists – 180,000 last year. “For businesses, dual studies are a very good answer to this problem. It is pretty much the same system as the German work-study training model, but for higher education. The student gets dual training while being a part of the company’s life from the start” explains Jochen Goeser, expert on the subject at the BIBB. “For its part, the company is creating a pool of workers it is going to discover, test and almost custom-train.”
nts. In a highly competitive environment, demographic ageing combined with the increasing specialization and sophistication of jobs are posing a real problem in terms of talent recruitment and knowledge management. In 2009, the German industry was missing 60,000 engineers and scientists – 180,000 last year. “For businesses, dual studies are a very good answer to this problem. It is pretty much the same system as the German work-study training model, but for higher education. The student ge
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