Berlin (dpa) – Nine out of ten adults with children would recommend a young person to become a technician. The second most frequent recommendation is for the medical profession with 79 percent, followed by that of the judge (69 percent).
69 percent also recommend tax consultants, 64 percent recommend a career in firefighters, and 63 percent recommend teachers. This is what emerges from a Forsa survey commissioned by the public employees association dbb.
Respondents were asked to imagine that their own child or grandchild or other young person would express their professional aspirations to them. To this end, they were asked to rate whether or not they would prefer to recommend different occupations.
Some professions in the public service have performed rather poorly on this issue. Only 57 percent of young people recommend the profession of daycare teacher. Police officers make up 43 percent, garbage collectors 38 percent. The military profession reaches only 17%.
Unattractive working conditions in the public sector
The head of the dbb Ulrich Silberbach told dpa: “You don’t want to expect the working and payment conditions in the public sector from your own offspring.” The union boss attributed this to the fact that people knew there was a clear mismatch between workload and pay in the public sector. “The civil service is no longer attractive,” says Silberbach.
The shortage of staff in the public sector is evident. “It doesn’t matter if it’s building permits, food controls, IT specialists, health services, nurses, police, employment centers, administration, schools or daycare centers, there is a shortage of people everywhere and the state is no longer competitive on the labor market.
The conditions for public sector employees at the start of the new week are also in focus. On 9 and 10 January on 64 dbb annual conference instead of. At the congress in Cologne, the dbb wants to address how the Russian war against Ukraine, climate change, the energy crisis, the shortage of skilled workers and other critical developments are increasing the pressure on state institutions.
