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Education 'protects against unemployment'
Published: 26 Feb 13 17:30 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/education/20130226-48207.html
All that cramming and hard work might pay off after all: German graduates are practically guaranteed a job - current figures show nearly full employment among those who have an academic degree.
- 'Germans care about good work-life balance' - Lifestyle (25 Feb 13)
- Job vacancies reach record high - Business & Money (23 Feb 13)
Even in 2006, just 3.6 percent of all university graduates were unemployed, while in 1997 the rate was higher at 4.5 percent.
Technical college graduates also have good prospects for finding work - just 2.5 percent were unemployed in 2011, down from 3.3 percent jobless in 2006.
Yet although graduates were usually working, many did not have the kind of job they may have wanted.
"In 2009, almost every third tertiary education graduate had a non-standard job," said Brigitte Weber und Enzo Weber, the authors of the study.
Academics were actually more likely to be employed on just a short-term basis than those with a vocational education. Yet most academics do generally end up with a steady job, they said.
The risk of unemployment was also relatively low for those who had completed an apprenticeship or got a degree from a vocational college. The report said that just 5.1 percent were jobless in 2011, while that share had been 8.5 in 2006.
Those without vocational training had nearly four times as high a risk of being unemployed, with a rate of 19.6 percent joblessness in 2011.
The major problem for them was a decline in the number of jobs for which they would be suitable, the study authors said. The number of poorly qualified workers dropped from 5.7 million in 2006 to 5.1 million in 2011.
The authors concluded: "Education is the best protection against unemployment".
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Maybe they don't want somebody who is so arrogant and self-centered as to consider anyone who does not have a PhD as dumb.
But I am become a little sick to the back teeth of this false feelgood factor that is now daily rammed down our throats ,because from where I am the boom never came and we are still in the state where real 40 hour jobs for a real employer are not there .Agencies ,€400 , mini -jobs, etc are all thats around.
Another reason they gave me was that since I am non German, I could not be a good role model for the kids...although my German was middle niveau.Hello, I thought the kids could also start learning some English but no, they could not see my usefulness. Being disgusted with the whole chain of events, I am out. Germany is just so unfriendly to immigrants so how can they attract more immigrants to pump up vitality for an aging population ..no wonder the language itself is used as a hindrance for employment and many other things to block foreigners out.
At least in my branch - telecom - the companies are now ONLY looking for Praktikum people or Thesis arbeit and not qualified engineers. And they come always with the BS that you have great qualifications and experience but we found someone else that match our requirements better. And I ask "what are your requirements that are not written in your Job announce?? It is as simple as I said before, they don't want to pay qualified people and/or want immigrants to do the job for much less.
Agentur für Arbeit is not helpful at all as they tried to push us to do work at the old aged homes...where the ordinary Germans won't go....
2. @FigN : PhD only means that you have studied and maybe learned alot. Doesn't mean that you can DO anything . The good news is in "3"
3. In regards to 2 above , Germans seem to be very fond of their little letters before their names. Meaning that a PhD will still have better chances than someone with just a bachelor, or no degree. It seems to be more prestigeous to be a "dr. " or at least a "von" :) . So " Dr. FigN" haz better chances than Bill Gates, Steve Jobs , or Richard Branson, if all of them are competing for a job and are judged by their education.