Companies need to rethink the battle for IT talent

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Although, according to the digital association Bitkom, 137,000 IT positions are vacant in Germany, the number of job advertisements is falling.

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Berlin The numbers relating to the IT staff shortage in Germany remain impressively high. According to the Bitkom digital association, 137,000 IT jobs are vacant in Germany. 19 out of 22 Dax companies that took part in a Handelsblatt survey in January stated that they were currently looking for staff primarily for their IT. An example: Deutsche Telekom wants to hire around 1,000 tech experts just for fiber optic expansion.

What the personnel service provider Hays recently determined in an analysis does not seem to fit: According to this, the demand for IT experts fell again for the first time in the third and fourth quarters of 2022. At Hays, both online job advertisements and requests in daily newspapers and in the business network Xing were analyzed for the evaluation.

Why is it that on the one hand fewer job offers are advertised and on the other hand there are still well over a hundred thousand IT jobs unfilled?

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