After three declines in a row, the Bavarian metal and electrical industry expects more new training contracts in 2022. The employers’ association Bayme VBM expects an increase of 6.5 percent to 14,000, as announced on Tuesday. The situation is again on the “upward trend” and moving in the direction of the pre-crisis level, said CEO Bertram Brossardt. Overall, the situation is good for the applicants. “Young people are wanted,” emphasized Brossardt. This is also noticeable in the hiring rates: while in 2021 only 69.8 percent of the trainees were taken on for an unlimited period and a further 20.9 were fully or partially temporary, the companies for the current year are assuming 75.8 percent are permanent and 17.4 fully or partially partial temporary takeovers. Here one is again at the typical high level.
In view of the demographic change, training is one of the most important efforts for companies, emphasized Brossardt. The biggest challenge is finding suitable applicants. And on the one hand, it is important to support young people, but on the other hand to overcome pre-existing influences such as a certain fear of technology. The survey on which the figures are based took place before the war in Ukraine began, Brossardt said. Should this have even more serious effects, there could be a certain amount of shaking, but he does not expect any major changes even then: Even then, the situation would remain such that companies needed trainees given the age structure. Brossardt said that it is not yet possible to predict how the people who have fled to Bavaria from the Ukraine will affect the training market. However, there will be no effects in the current year.