I would love to, I even learned German (it was B1 at best, now it’s worse), but I don’t know if my field exists in Germany? I do habitat restoration and have skills with botany, ArcGIS, basic coding.
Seemed like y’all needed like, nurses and plumbers more than botanists 😔
Plenty of nature restoration and such. EU regulations make a lot of it obligated and subsidised. Labour shortage is general, also in your field, not enough staff in many fields (except maybe “influencer”). Specifically good GIS skills are highly valued in many government agencies, tho those offices are probably a lot harder to get into without being very fluent in german. So harder I guess than engineer or IT, but might not be impossible.
That’s good to know! My biggest barrier to moving to Germany would probably just be the finances, I’m pretty good at picking up language and could study, but iirc, you need like $10-20k? USD to have in a frozen bank account.
Why is there such a labor shortage? Aren’t there a fair number of migrants, and free/v inexpensive college education in Germany?
There are regional differences, some parts of western Europe have labour shortage (“fully employed” with like less than 4% not employed), some still have more unemployment. Some regions are more attractive (North Belgium, south-west Netherlands, south Germany…) because they have higher wages and in general higher QOL. The big labour migrant stream from Eastern Europe to the west has slowed down a lot compared to 15 years ago. Many are moving back east even, for example Romania offers a big financial reward to migrants moving back to Romania. And the baby boomers in Western Europe are pensioning and Germany is very far from being a digitised administration.
It’s for sure not only unskilled Labour shortage as someone else comments, it’s general, and definitely worth looking in to if you are interested in Germany. Wages are low compared to usa, but trains and health care are dirt cheap, that about sums it up. And in my opinion (I’m not german born): the post-ww2 guilt trip that continues to this day has made Germans some of the most kind, caring and overall friendly people in europe, but that’s subjective I guess ;)
I would love to, I even learned German (it was B1 at best, now it’s worse), but I don’t know if my field exists in Germany? I do habitat restoration and have skills with botany, ArcGIS, basic coding.
Seemed like y’all needed like, nurses and plumbers more than botanists 😔
Plenty of nature restoration and such. EU regulations make a lot of it obligated and subsidised. Labour shortage is general, also in your field, not enough staff in many fields (except maybe “influencer”). Specifically good GIS skills are highly valued in many government agencies, tho those offices are probably a lot harder to get into without being very fluent in german. So harder I guess than engineer or IT, but might not be impossible.
That’s good to know! My biggest barrier to moving to Germany would probably just be the finances, I’m pretty good at picking up language and could study, but iirc, you need like $10-20k? USD to have in a frozen bank account.
Why is there such a labor shortage? Aren’t there a fair number of migrants, and free/v inexpensive college education in Germany?
I don’t know about savings requirements.
There are regional differences, some parts of western Europe have labour shortage (“fully employed” with like less than 4% not employed), some still have more unemployment. Some regions are more attractive (North Belgium, south-west Netherlands, south Germany…) because they have higher wages and in general higher QOL. The big labour migrant stream from Eastern Europe to the west has slowed down a lot compared to 15 years ago. Many are moving back east even, for example Romania offers a big financial reward to migrants moving back to Romania. And the baby boomers in Western Europe are pensioning and Germany is very far from being a digitised administration.
It’s for sure not only unskilled Labour shortage as someone else comments, it’s general, and definitely worth looking in to if you are interested in Germany. Wages are low compared to usa, but trains and health care are dirt cheap, that about sums it up. And in my opinion (I’m not german born): the post-ww2 guilt trip that continues to this day has made Germans some of the most kind, caring and overall friendly people in europe, but that’s subjective I guess ;)
Shortage’s in low income jobs and a shitty housing/flat market are the root causes.
Inexpensive education for mostly foreign students.