This just blew my mind:
Report in the German newspaper Welt on the career choices of recent graduates. #1 is the public sector and NGOs. #2 is the automotive industry, which isn't really surprising for Germany. #3 is commerce and #4 consumer goods - basically white collar office workers.
IT doesn't even make it above the 5% threshold. Only 7.3 percent of all pupils surveyed mentioned computer science as an area of interest. Among girls, it was only 1.4 per cent - despite all the 'girl power' and decades of liberal brainwashing insisting that there are no gender differences.
In any case, not only is Germany demographically fucked, but the current crop of new graduates does not reflect the requirements/needs of a industrialized high technology based industry. The one exception may be the automotive industry but I somehow have doubts that they were referring to automotive engineering and related science.
Report in the German newspaper Welt on the career choices of recent graduates. #1 is the public sector and NGOs. #2 is the automotive industry, which isn't really surprising for Germany. #3 is commerce and #4 consumer goods - basically white collar office workers.
IT doesn't even make it above the 5% threshold. Only 7.3 percent of all pupils surveyed mentioned computer science as an area of interest. Among girls, it was only 1.4 per cent - despite all the 'girl power' and decades of liberal brainwashing insisting that there are no gender differences.
In any case, not only is Germany demographically fucked, but the current crop of new graduates does not reflect the requirements/needs of a industrialized high technology based industry. The one exception may be the automotive industry but I somehow have doubts that they were referring to automotive engineering and related science.
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