Demographic change with shrinking labor force potential and increasing employment over the past several years will cause a troubled skilled worker situation in Mayen-Koblenz in the future. Although a comprehensive lack of skilled workers in the district is not yet ascertainable, there are nevertheless significant shortages in some professional fields.

It is important to get in touch with students at an early stage to gain a competitive advantage in recruiting promising junior staff, which is why the WFG supports companies from the district of Mayen-Koblenz with participation in apprentice and student days, apprenticeship exchanges and the Praxis@Campus career networking fair and regularly gives presentations on training and labor offerings from Mayen-Koblenz-based companies at relevant Bonding trade fairs.

The Mayen-Koblenz Skilled Workers’ Alliance (Fachkräfte-Allianz Mayen-Koblenz) assists companies in the Mayen-Koblenz district with obtaining and retaining skilled workers. The collaboration partners for the Skilled Workers’ Alliance are the Agentur für Arbeit Koblenz-Mayen (Koblenz-Mayen Employment Agency), the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), the Koblenz Chamber of Trades and Crafts (Handwerkskammer Koblenz), the Koblenz Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK), the Job Center of the District of Mayen-Koblenz, vem.die arbeitgeber e.V., the Middle Rhine District Craft Trades Association (Kreishandwerkerschaft Mittelrhein), and the Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft am Mittelrhein mbH.

The WFG regularly offers workshops on the issues of recruiting and retaining employees, reconciling family and career, and succession planning. These workshops are tailored toward the current needs of companies and help improve the situation regarding skilled workers. Every year, companies are queried on their priority issues, and we then work on them together. Issues relating to employee recruitment, Generation Y, employer marketing, company culture, employee retention, human resources management, early and late childcare hours, childcare during school holidays, communication, leadership and health promotion have so far been analyzed and discussed.

The WFG’s film on skilled workers illustrates how life and work is like in Mayen-Koblenz. It is available for download, and you are welcome to use it for your own marketing purposes as well.