Halle (dpa/sa) - According to labor market experts, the shortage of skilled workers in Saxony-Anhalt is increasing. In some professions the "market" has been swept empty. Between September 2021 and August 2022, it took an average of 140 days to fill a position subject to social security contributions in the country. That was 20 days more than in the same period last year (September 2020 to August 2021), as the regional directorate of Saxony-Anhalt-Thuringia announced to the Federal Employment Agency on Thursday. According to a spokeswoman, the figures for September of this year are not yet available.
According to statistics, it took the longest to find a tiler. In this profession, a job in the country was vacant for a good year (370 days) on average. In contrast, vacancies in administration were filled the fastest after one month (31 days). According to statistics, a position was vacant for around 330 days in occupations involving the monitoring and maintenance of railway infrastructure, and 300 days in concrete and reinforced concrete construction.
It is becoming increasingly important to recruit foreign specialists with the appropriate qualifications, warned the head of the regional directorate, Markus Behrens. "The risk for our economic development is not that we run out of work, but that jobs can no longer be filled," said Behrens. The promotion and integration of the unemployed is not enough in view of the great need.
The background is that there is a shortage of workers because, in view of the demographic development, more and more people are retiring than young people are entering the labor market. In September, 78,900 people were unemployed in Saxony-Anhalt. Of these, 37 percent had been without a job for more than a year.
