Approximately 150,000 young people start their careers without any kind of training qualification every year. If Germany succeeded in halving this number, approximately 1.5 billion euros could be saved per age cohort regarding follow-up costs.
Many new professions with bright prospects are still unknown among German employees, as illustrated in a current Forsa survey by the Berlin University for Professional Studies.
According to the Minister of Education and Arts of Baden-Wuerttemberg, the new award clearly demonstrates the attractiveness of core elective courses for the economy.
Edeka is Germany's biggest training provider with 16,000 trainees in 30 different jobs. Boys and girls from a local high school had the opportunity to take part in an information event at the Erkrath branch store.
Practical experience and the internet come first when young people plan their future careers. More than three quarters of the trainees questioned by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) considered an internship the best possibility to gather information about an occupation - followed by the internet (64 per cent) and visits to a firm or factory (48 per cent).
According to a joint press release by trade associations, the federal ministries, the standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and the Federal Employment Agency, "the situation of the training market has further improved in 2010."
