The academics will be in surplus in 2025, while we will miss thousands of skilled workers.
There are many sales students in Coops stores and they have a busy day.
For a sales assistant, do not just put goods in place and sit in a box. They will keep track of operations, sales and inventory. They must work with financial management - and then they will provide good service to the customers and be good sellers.But grocery stores like Coops are at risk of having a massive shortage of sales assistants and students in the coming years.
It shows forecasts from Danish Regions.
By 2025, we will have far fewer skilled workers in the workforce, while the number of middle or long higher education increases.
The future image concerns Claus Ljungdahl, HR Director of Coop, which operates the Kvickly, SuperBrugsen, Dagli 'Brugsen, Irma and Facts retail chains.
"I do not want to call it a ticking bomb, but at least it's a challenge we have to take very seriously," says Claus Ljungdahl.
- Right now we do not experience it as a nationwide phenomenon. We still have a sensible search for traditional sales assistant training and our senior trainee education. But there are already areas where we find it becoming harder and harder to attract people, and it is because young people simply do not seek store training. A cross-industry issue
Keeping the forecasts in check, it is not only the grocery stores that will find it hard to find qualified labor in the future.
Many other areas of Danish industry and production will also be hit hard.
A cross-industry issue
Keeping the forecasts in check, it is not only the grocery stores that will find it hard to find qualified labor in the future.
Many other areas of Danish industry and production will also be hit hard.
The trend that can already be seen now, says Claus Ljungdahl from Coop:
"We are already experiencing difficulty in obsessing our slaughter camps. And it's not just us, but the whole grocery industry, reporting vacant student places and the lack of skilled butchers, he says.
Due to the lack of skilled workers, it is vital to increase efforts to make more young people choose vocational education, says Stephanie Lose, Deputy Chairman of the Danish Regions:
- Companies lacking skilled labor will have to say no to orders and get harder to develop new products. This may mean that companies need to move. So on the bottom line it will cost both growth and development in Denmark, she says.
The future shortage of skilled and short-skilled can at worst cost Denmark up to NOK 100 billion in lower gross domestic product, analyzes from the Danish Labor Trade Council and Denmark's Growth Council show.
Need for alternative solutions
Back at Coop, you would like more young people to choose vocational education in the future.
However, HR Director Claus Ljungdahl does not mean moving young people from long-term education to short-term education. Instead, look at the group of young people who are left without any education at all, it sounds like:
"To do something political is to get some business reforms that allow young people to get a business education in a different way than how we train today," he says.
This includes the need to reconsider the way young people get trained in office, commerce and business services, says Claus Ljungdahl:
- The young people who, for example, do not live up to the new grade of vocational education (The requirement of 02 in Danish and mathematics, ed.), May we assist and support in another way because we are a practical company and instead Give them what we traditionally call a master's education, says HR Director.
Recruitment at the other end of the age scale
In addition to looking into new ways for vocational education, older employees can also be part of the solution, says Claus Ljungdahl:
"We have to have employees, and if we can not get the young people to choose trade education, then we have to look at recruiting other employees - that is, the older, he says.
And just by looking at the competencies of "the adult rows", you have already started at Coop:
"We are already embarking on the first test courses, where the plan is to develop the skills of the unskilled adults and older employees and give them education equivalent to a trade education," explains Claus Ljungdahl.
Although there are a lot of examples of employees who have never been educated, but still doing very well in the shops, then education is something special, says Claus Ljungdahl.
"It helps to get a better understanding of the things about running the retail business. It not only understands the single function, but the whole is important. The education makes you understand things faster, and when you quickly understand things, you can also take initiatives faster to improve things.
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