Upper Austria makes young talents fit for professional life!

Upper Austria makes young talents fit for professional life!

Upper Austria places a special focus on strengthening young people on the labor market. The program aims to promote qualification, orientation and new training opportunities in order to counteract the significant shortage of skilled workers in the region. Economic Councilor Markus Achleitner emphasizes the central role of youth for the future viability of Upper Austria. Projects such as Smartup and C’Mon 17 offer individual accompaniment for young people on their way to training or job. In addition, new training centers and funding programs create perspectives, especially for disadvantaged young people.

Such an engagement is necessary because the data from the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs will show that 618,000 people flock to the labor market in the next five years, while only 396,000 helper positions are available. This leads to a worrying discrepancy between the supply and the demand for workers.

shortage of skilled workers and training offers

The shortage of skilled workers remains one of the biggest challenges on the labor market. In order to counteract this trend, early orientation and creation of opportunities is essential for young people. Initiatives such as Upperwork are part of a more comprehensive strategy that is also aimed at regional differences in demographic change, as analyzed in the forecasts of skilled workers. Bottlenecks are identified in various professional groups, which is particularly important for the chemical industry and the automotive industry.

In addition to support from programs such as Upperwork, skilled worker monitoring is of crucial importance. It analyzes the labor market flows of offer and requires for the period from 2024 to 2028 and takes into account assumptions about digitization, climate change and geopolitical developments that affect the sales opportunities of the processing trade.

New ways of winning specialists

In this context, the increase in the potential for workers is described as a decisive measure. Various scenarios are examined in the analyzes that concentrate on specific groups such as women, older people and non -German nationals. Nevertheless, it should be noted that despite the efforts of a higher work tendency and immigration, the work population shrinks as a whole.

Monitoring also shows that high demolition rates in educational institutions particularly affect people of foreign nationality. This gives rise to concern because the potential of the various population groups is not yet used sufficiently. It is therefore important to take suitable measures in order to increase the qualification of workers and to promote equal opportunities.