Crisis in the training market Where the trainees are most absent

Status: 08.06.2021 2:09 p.m.

Much fewer apprenticeships, far fewer applicants – Corona has massively thinned the training market. What alarms experts: Professions in which there is already a shortage of skilled workers are severely affected. From Philipp Reichert, SWR Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, significantly fewer training positions have been offered than before. This is shown by figures from the Federal Employment Agency SWR has evaluated. According to this, companies across Germany reported only around 430,000 apprenticeship positions from October 2020 to the end of April, i.e. after more than half of the current application year. That is around 60,000 fewer than in the same period of 2018/2019, i.e. before the pandemic. This means that by the end of April, around every eighth training position in the country was no longer offered. The number of applicants also fell significantly in the same period: from around 418,000 to 345,000 – a decrease of around 18 percent.

The healthcare and hospitality industries are particularly hard hit

Accordingly, there were particularly strong slumps in the tourism industry and in the hotel and restaurant sector. By the end of April, an average of every third apprenticeship position was no longer offered compared to 2019. But also in large occupational groups in the craft, for example in food production, the metal industry and in some technical professions, thousands fewer training positions were reported. The SWR -Data analysis shows that all federal states are affected by the development – albeit to different degrees.

Young people feel insecure

The Federal Employment Agency attributes the decline in training places and applicants primarily to the Corona crisis. “This mainly reflects the pandemic restrictions and the associated economic uncertainties,” it says SWR -Inquiry. Young people are also unsettled because personal consultations were more difficult in the pandemic and, for example, training fairs were canceled. “We also suspect that some of the young people are withdrawing from the dual training market in the current situation and switching from the outset to alternatives such as further schooling or possibly studying,” says the Federal Employment Agency. In addition to the corona crisis, changes in the labor market, for example in the automotive and supplier industry, as well as demographic change have contributed to the development.

Can the gap still be closed?

For labor market experts like Stefan Sell from the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, the development is alarming. “These are extremely strong slumps, they are extraordinarily high.” Sell ​​therefore fears long-term consequences if fewer young people start an apprenticeship in the fall of the new training year. “Losses of this magnitude could never be made up again.” Past crises would have shown that. “Unfortunately, we have to expect that the level of apprenticeships will remain significantly lower overall than before the Corona crisis,” said Sell. From the labor market expert Sell’s point of view, it is particularly problematic that such occupational groups are also affected in which companies already need an above-average long time to fill vacancies. According to calculations by the Institute for Employment Research, for example, companies in the field of mechatronics and in some technical and health professions are looking for skilled workers for a particularly long time. “Even before Corona, we did not train enough in these professions,” says Sell.

Criticism of “small funding programs” by the government

The SWR data analysis shows: It is precisely in these occupational groups that there are now also significant drops in the number of applicants. At least one in ten applicants broke away there compared to the time before Corona. Labor market expert Sell sees the significant drop in applicants in the professions with a shortage of skilled workers extremely critical. “In some of these areas, such as the health professions, we will run into significant shortages,” said Sell. The responsible Federal Ministry of Education divided up SWR request with, you take the decline in the training market very seriously. That is why a program to secure training positions was decided last summer, which for example provides training and employment bonuses as well as grants for training and trainer remuneration. 700 million euros are earmarked for this and the coming year. Sell, however, criticizes that the program is insufficient to cushion the decline in the training market. “This is a small funding program, one should have set clearer signals.” The program was also too late and too complicated for companies.

However, the ambition of some companies is too great, affecting the health of trainees. According to the Koreaboo , the idols below have revealed the truth about the harsh weight loss method they endured in order to have a chance to debut. 1. Eat controlled foods In the Ask Me Anything thread above Reddit , a former SM Entertainment trainee said the company never forced anyone to lose weight. However, she revealed that she has a very strict diet and all the trainees voluntarily follow it to increase their chances of debuting. The company sent controlled food portions to the trainees every day leaving them with no freedom to choose their meals. No desserts or snacks are offered. According to the trainee, she was advised by the company staff to lose weight to look taller and not consult a doctor or nutritionist about the diet. Seulgi (Red Velvet) once revealed that SM forbade her from eating fried chicken. Photo: Koreaboo, Reddit. 2. Run laps Two former trainees appeared on the channel AYO last year revealed the truth about this industry. Choi Ye Jin said she could not follow the strict diet that the company imposed to protect her health. After losing control of her eating, Ye Jin received a request to perform a weight check. Because her body weight was not within the allowable limit, the female trainee had to take the penalty of running 9 laps around the building. According to a former trainee, the ideal body shape is your height minus 120 to get the right weight. For example, a girl with a height of 1.61 m can only weigh 41 kg. The way to calculate the weight of entertainment companies in kimchi is BMI standard deviation. Photo: Koreaboo. 3. Food rations In the interview with BBC , Euodias – former trainee – revealed that people have to divide food portions to lose weight. Euodias explained that her company requires interns not to weigh more than 47 kg, regardless of age or height. According to BMI, anyone over 1.60 m tall would be considered undernourished at 47 kg. To force interns to keep their weight low, Euodias said the company will split food rations for anyone over 47 kg. They even took away the meal completely and those with substandard weight only drank water. After that, the interns often help others return to the dorms when they pass out due to lack of nutrition. The strict diet and water only if over 47 kg caused some trainees to fall unconscious. Photo: @euo.coeur. 4. Termination of the contract At some companies, severe penalties are imposed to keep trainees from gaining weight including threatening to terminate their contracts. Last year, former FNC Entertainment trainee – Cho Ah Young – appeared in the audition program CAP-TEEN of the Mnet . The female idol said that she was eliminated at the last minute for her debut with the group Cherry Bullet because of weight gain. Cho Ah Young shared that she started eating due to stress and after gaining weight, she felt disgusted with herself. Cho Ah Young could have debuted if her weight hadn’t exceeded the limit. Photo: Koreaboo. 5. Injection and electric shock In the interview with B uzzFeed News , Candidates Produce 101 – Kathy Lee – revealed that she was once tricked into taking weight loss pills at the age of 14 after the company took her to a hospital specializing in weight loss. However, that was not the harshest method she had to apply. After taking weight loss pills, Kathy Lee underwent carboxy therapy that included injecting carbon dioxide gas into the body to break down and filter fat, making it easier to lose weight. Next, she received electroconvulsive weight loss therapy. She said: “An electric current around the needle and creating a feeling of numbness.” Kathy Lee (blonde) has to go through many harsh weight loss processes. Photo: Koreaboo. Exercises to keep beautiful Korean female singers Solar (Mamamoo) practices Tabata to have a slim and healthy body.

Home storage training site.Photo by Zhu Liurong

Chinanews.com, Liuzhou, April 23 (Zhu Liurong) As a sorting and receiving division listed by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security as a new occupation, it is attracting more and more people to take it as a career direction. On the evening of April 22, at a private vocational school in Liuzhou City, Guangxi Province, the students said that it was “not pleasing to the eye” to look at their home after school.

Starting on the 20th of this month, Liuzhou Wannianqing Vocational Training School will start a 10-day home storage training course. At 20 o’clock in the evening on the 22nd, the course enters the practical part, and the training teachers will start with folding socks, underwear and other small objects, and teach the students the scientific method of folding.

The trainees communicate with the trainer.Photo by Zhu Liurong

“One-fold, two-fold, and three-fold. It’s our goal to be able to stand upright.” Xiaoxin held a pair of men’s underwear while demonstrating folding while explaining, “The mainstream way to organize these items, try to make them into long strips and store them. It will be neat and beautiful…”

The trainee Wang Ping watched and operated it in a few seconds. She said excitedly, “I want to go home and sort it out immediately.” The sorting fire in her heart seemed to be ignited in an instant. “Although I have only studied for three days, I have already watched it. Nowhere at home is pleasing to the eye. The clothes are piled up all year round, which is too messy.”

Wang Ping is only one of 39 trainees. Most of these trainees are unemployed or rural laborers. They participate in this training free of charge. They hope to keep their home clean and tidy through learning and have the opportunity to work in the tidying and storage industry.

The trainer Xiaoxin is demonstrating the folding of clothes.Photo by Zhu Liurong

“Since I have a child, there are more and more things in the house. A family of three people living in a 90-square-meter family seems to be very small.” Student Cao Yuanyuan said that she hopes that through learning to organize the storage, the family will change first, and then she will try the water part-time. Continue to study and obtain relevant qualification certificates.

But in the eyes of Xiaoxin, who has four years of experience in the industry, this is not an easy task. Xiaoxin, who spent RMB 50,000 to 60,000 to learn storage and organization, and others set up a planning and organization team in Nanning to carry out organization and storage services.

Students are learning to fold clothes.Photo by Zhu Liurong

“Many people associate tidying and storage with housekeeping services, but tidying is not simply about cleaning the house, but also the coordination between people, objects and space.” Xiaoxin said that the 10-day course can only learn a little bit of introductory. Knowledge, if you want to go better and further, you must continue to learn.

According to the relevant service process, the professional organizer needs to go through the steps of pre-communication, door-to-door pre-harvesting, and listing of plans. According to the customer’s house space structure, decoration style, living habits, etc., design a scientific and reasonable tidying and storing plan. Behind these services, rely on the support of knowledge of space design, clothing care, aesthetics, and psychology.

The students show the folded clothing.Photo by Zhu Liurong

In January of this year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security listed “organization and receptionist” as a new occupation. Data shows that over 40% of practitioners have a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan and an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan. The job requirements of the organization in the next two years will be nearly 2 Ten thousand people.

Since December 2020, Liuzhou Wannianqing Vocational Training School has opened five home storage training courses, with about 200 participants. Chen Ping, the vice principal of the school, said that with the improvement of living standards, people have higher and higher requirements for the living environment, not only shelter from wind and rain, but also comfortable and beautiful. Therefore, many people put forward higher requirements for family space. . Although the Liuzhou storage and finishing market is in its infancy, it needs more talents to come in. (Finish)

The corona pandemic has also left deep marks on the training market. In the past year, so few people in Germany started an apprenticeship as they have not since reunification. According to preliminary calculations by the Federal Statistical Office, around 465,200 people in Germany signed a new training contract in dual vocational training in 2020. That was 9.4 percent less than the year before. Statisticians attribute the decline to the outbreak of the corona pandemic. Although the number of apprentices has tended to decline for years, the current slump is so far unique in its magnitude.

Stronger decline than in 2009

In fact, the decline is stronger than in 2009, when the total number of new contracts had shrunk by 7.6 percent in the wake of the financial crisis. In addition, the statisticians have not counted a lower number of new apprenticeship contracts since 1991, when the data from West and East Germany were combined for the first time. The President of the Central Association of German Crafts, Hans Peter Wollseifer, was concerned about the numbers: “Trainees who are not being trained now will be lacking as specialists in the future,” he told the German Press Agency. It is also noticeable that the number of new contracts in dual training has decreased more among women (by 10.2 percent) than among men (minus 8.9 percent). According to the statistics office, a good third of all new contracts were concluded by women and almost two thirds by men in 2020.

Burglary particularly strong in Hamburg

There are also clear differences when comparing countries. The number of new contracts is declining in all federal states, but the percentage of the decrease differs considerably in some cases. While the numbers fell the most in Hamburg (minus 13.5 percent) and Saarland (minus 12.4 percent), the decline was smallest in Brandenburg with minus 2.8 percent and in Saxony (minus 4.8 percent) . When looking at developments in the individual sectors, there are also major differences. While there was even a slight increase of 500 contracts in agriculture, the number fell in all other sectors, in some cases considerably. Industry and trade were particularly affected, where almost twelve percent fewer new training contracts were concluded. In the trades it was down by 6.6 percent. The statisticians explain the decline in trade with the fact that this area has suffered particularly from the pandemic because of the months-long restrictions with the closure of most shops. According to preliminary results, a total of around 1.289 million people were in dual vocational training as of December 31, 2020. Compared to 2019 (1.329 million), the number of trainees is also down.