Mittweida in Saxony needs skilled workers. Mayor Ralf Schreiber wants to make his town attractive again

    Since 1990, Mittweida has lost around 5000 people. Many stores stand empty, and the lack of skilled workers is felt everywhere. Mayor Ralf Schreiber wants to revitalize his town and attract tourists and new residents. But many projects fail due to a lack of skilled workers. A development that is being seen in many small German towns in particular. A report by Bettina Stehkämper.

    00:00 Intro
    01:07 Job recruitment: jobseekers meet employers
    03:34 Skilled labor shortage visible downtown
    04:20 Companies need young talent: Visit to a quarry
    07:05 Lack of workers in tourism
    09:08 Nursing staff urgently needed

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    22 Comments

    1. sounds like they want the perfect person with all the qualifications to present themselves to the employer ready to go. no compromise, not a lot of apprentcieships/training that's their problem.

    2. 1 thing came to my mind. A.Merkel took ALL "called" refugees when now other EU countries are force take them and if not countries r threatened pay fine. Why nobody checked skills of this people…wait a minute– do they wanna work or just be on benefits 🤔 hmmm ..thats a problem! Send them for training and tell to work .If not stop benefits and deport.

      When I was unemployed I had to go every 2 weeks and show that im looking for a job and where I applied. If not I was threatened to stop pay me unemployment benefit !!

    3. Here is my exprience: I have 3 degrees including a DPhil from Oxford university. I came to Germany with fluent German to take up a position teaching at a university. All went fairly well at the start when I had a contracted salaried-position. For the last 3 years I have been working as a freelancer and applying to teach in schools (I have worked in a German vocational college), but my applications remain unanswered. Despite there being a so-called shortage of teachers. I go into some detail about all this in "Swallow the Toad: from Britain to Germany". I feel that Germany is a car crash in not-so-slow motion.

    4. people are not "workers", they are people, better: needing people with skills in …, that includes medical doctors dentist law because those are skills too; hence, no one person can one upman ship another never!

    5. Just have a little patience: in the next 30 years the Baby Boomers generation will have gone to heaven and there will no longer be a need for many workers.
      P.s. I belong to the Baby Boomers generation 🤔😅 and the population pyramid can be found on Destatis…

    6. What he did not mention is the culture of Grmany itself which is cold, direct and seems hostile to foreigners…The way Germans talk to foreigners and even each other feels very rude and mean to most other countries of the world…I work at an international school with people from 10 different countries and everyone say they are or were at one point almost in tears from the rudeness and unfriendlyness and condescending way they are treated

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