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Talent War | Germany Woos Portugal’s Lost Generation – SPIEGEL ONLINE

“The crisis-hit nations of southern Europe have one booming industry left — their skilled workers are in high demand in Germany, which has a chronic shortage of qualified labor. German employers in search of nurses and engineers have launched a recruitment drive in Portugal, where over a third of young people are unemployed” writes Christoph Paulyon spiegel.de.

… The ongoing economic upswing in Germany has emptied out the job market in many regions of Europe’s largest economy. International companies and small to medium-sized businesses alike are desperate to hire engineers, while nursing services and hospitals are also short-staffed. According to Erhardt, the healthcare sector in this aging country will need 800,000 additional skilled workers by 2020.

The International Placement Service of Germany’s Federal Employment Agency has had to adapt to the new circumstances. As recently as last year, the organization was mainly involved in finding jobs for Germans who wanted to work abroad. Now, three of these teams are being disbanded due to lack of demand, with the staff focusing instead on job fairs in Porto, Naples or Barcelona, where they can recruit skilled labor for German companies.

Desperately Seeking Job Applicants

It’s not only in German states such as Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, which traditionally have had low unemployment rates, that conditions on the job market have improved. The less prosperous region of Westphalia, for example, is also short on skilled applicants…

Read More @ Hunt for Skilled Labor: Germany Woos Portugal’s Lost Generation – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International.

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