{"id":4096,"date":"2022-05-27T12:24:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/the-number-of-vacancies-rises-to-a-record-high\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:06:20","slug":"the-number-of-vacancies-rises-to-a-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/the-number-of-vacancies-rises-to-a-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"The number of vacancies rises to a record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kacaj00t-fa0513dd0e1be07f861abe253f48a7ec '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3><span id=\"page3R_mcid2\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Despite the pandemic<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">and<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Ukraine<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">&#8211;<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">war<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">: <\/span><\/span><span id=\"page3R_mcid3\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">W<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">a growing demand intensifies <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">shortage of skilled workers<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<table width=\"620\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\">According to the latest KfW Skilled Labor Barometer, 44% of all companies were affected by a shortage of skilled workers in April 2022. This means that a lack of skilled workers has once again become a far more frequent obstacle to production than before the pandemic. All sectors of the economy are affected. In the manufacturing sector, around 40% of companies saw their business activities hampered by a shortage of skilled workers, by far the highest proportion in the last 30 years.   <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page34R_mcid6\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The sharp rise in the shortage of skilled workers can be attributed to <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">two<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">two causes can be cited:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>companies&#8217; bulging order books in conjunction with<\/li>\n<li>the increasingly noticeable demographic change.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The rapid implementation of a comprehensive and varied package of measures is urgently needed to curb the current trend.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kfw.de\/PDF\/Download-Center\/Konzernthemen\/Research\/PDF-Dokumente-KfW-ifo-Fachkr%C3%A4ftebarometer\/KfW-ifo-Fachkraeftebarometer_2022-05.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KfW Skilled Labor Barometer May 2022<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"avia_textblock avia_textblock_style\" data-update_with=\"content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"avia_textblock avia_textblock_style\" data-update_with=\"content\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4098,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}