The desire amongst employees in Germany for a new job is growing according to a new representative study of 10,000 respondents by The Stepstone Group.
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Overall 64 percent are currently thinking about a career change at least once a month - in 2021, the figure was 53 percent.
At the same time, 44 percent see their current job opportunities as significantly better than in previous years.
"People shortage is increasingly playing into job seekers' hands, and they are taking advantage of the opportunities available to them job changes will therefore become more commonplace for us. The transformation in the labor market is here," says The Stepstone Group Labor Market Expert Dr. Tobias Zimmermann.
The widespread shortage of labor is causing HR employees in particular to lookat new prospects: They rate their chances of finding a new job in the next six months as particularly good (61 percent), but lawyers (58 percent), doctors (55 percent) and nursing staff (54 percent) are also optimistic.
An analysis of jobs on Stepstone.de paints a similar picture: there are currently 208 percent more social services jobs, 177 percent more healthcare jobs and 56 percent more HR jobs advertised than just before the Corona pandemic began in January 2020.
"This is just the beginning. Demographic changes mean more and more workers will retire and fewer and fewer people will start working. In the future, job seekers will be more likely than ever to choose the employer that is a perfect fit for them," says Zimmermann.
"Of course, this poses challenges for companies. But ultimately, everyone benefits when people find the job they are best at. Because then they prefer to go to work and are more productive."
"If employees don't feel comfortable in their current job or simply want to do something else, they are likely to increasingly look for alternatives - also because they are increasingly feeling the effects of the staff shortage first-hand," says Zimmermann.
More than half (58 percent) complain about increased workload and stress due to staff shortages in their company, and more than one in two people feel less motivated to go to work (53 percent).
The greater pressure on the job is especially evident in nursing where seven out of ten respondents complain of stress and increased strain due to a lack of staff.
"We need to take the pressure off people and automation is the key to this." says Zimmermann "This can also mean providing people with technical support for some repetitive, administrative tasks.
"After all, if time consuming paperwork no longer has to be done by hand in nursing professions, for example, that would be a huge relief and they can then concentrate on the tasks that are actually important: caring for people." ■