The print and media associations are now offering a central platform for job vacancies in the industry throughout Germany. This will support companies in the sector in their search for skilled labour.
The results of the nationwide survey on the skilled labour situation in the print and media industry reveal the tense situation on the skilled labour market. 46 per cent of participants stated that they were unable to fill their vacancies with suitable staff and were therefore losing competitiveness.
“The print and media sector is an exciting industry. Whether a print shop, publishing house or media company, small family business or large industrial enterprise – they all share a passion for print, but currently and in some regions of Germany it is not easy to find suitable skilled workers,” says Kirsten Hommelhoff, Managing Director of the German Printing and Media Industries Federation (BVDM), describing the situation. “Yet our companies offer attractive employment opportunities,” Hommelhoff continues.
The job exchange focuses in particular on printing and media professions: whether creative media designers for pre-press, technically skilled media technologists in the fields of printing, screen printing and print processing for production or industrial foremen, media specialists and technicians for management level as well as prospective trainees. They should all be able to find company vacancies on the platform. Technically, the job exchange is structured in such a way that the vacancies are displayed throughout Germany via the websites of the regional associations and the federal association and can also be found on “Google for Jobs”. By publishing their vacancies free of charge, member companies of the print and media associations have the opportunity to present themselves comprehensively.
To the job market: www.jobs-print.de
BVDM
The Bundesverband Druck und Medien e. V. (bvdm) is the umbrella organisation of the German printing industry. As an employers’ organisation, political business association and technical trade association, it represents the positions and objectives of the printing industry vis-à-vis politicians, administration, trade unions and the supplier industry. The bvdm is supported by eight regional associations. Internationally, it is organised through its membership of Intergraf and FESPA. The printing industry currently comprises around 6,900 predominantly small and medium-sized companies with more than 110,000 employees subject to social security contributions.