Me­di­cal as­sistants and au­to­mo­ti­ve me­cha­tro­nics tech­ni­ci­ans re­main in 1st place

Por­trait of hap­py fe­ma­le nur­se with ste­tho­scope stan­ding arms crossed iso­la­ted over dark gray back­ground.

For the se­cond time in a row, wo­men con­cluded the most new trai­ning con­tracts in the dual vo­ca­tio­nal trai­ning sys­tem in the oc­cu­pa­ti­on of „me­di­cal as­sistant“. With 16,656 (2021: 17,154) new con­tracts, this oc­cu­pa­ti­on took first place in the „2022 ran­king of trai­ning oc­cu­pa­ti­ons by num­ber of new con­tracts – wo­men“ ahead of „of­fice ma­nage­ment as­sistant“ with 16,116 (2021: 16,725) new con­tracts. This is fol­lo­wed by „den­tal as­sistant“, „sa­les as­sistant“, „re­tail sales­wo­man“ and „in­dus­tri­al clerk“. In to­tal, 42% of young wo­men in the­se six oc­cu­pa­ti­ons si­gned a new trai­ning con­tract in 2022. The top ten oc­cu­pa­ti­ons in the ran­king even ac­count for 53% of all new fe­ma­le con­tracts. This is shown by eva­lua­tions by the Fe­de­ral In­sti­tu­te for Vo­ca­tio­nal Edu­ca­ti­on and Trai­ning (BIBB) ba­sed on data from the BIBB sur­vey of new­ly con­cluded trai­ning con­tracts as of 30.09.2022 in re­co­gni­zed dual trai­ning oc­cu­pa­ti­ons in ac­cordance with the Vo­ca­tio­nal Trai­ning Act (BBiG) and the Crafts Code (HwO). Among men, „mo­tor ve­hic­le me­cha­tro­nics tech­ni­ci­an“ re­mains the un­dis­pu­ted lea­der. 20,295 (2021: 19,713) young men si­gned a new trai­ning con­tract in this oc­cu­pa­ti­on in 2022. Alt­hough the pro­por­ti­on of wo­men among „mo­tor ve­hic­le me­cha­tro­nics tech­ni­ci­ans“ is only 5.9 per­cent, the oc­cu­pa­ti­on has now ri­sen to se­cond place af­ter „of­fice ma­nage­ment as­sistant“ in the cross-gen­der ran­king of trai­ning oc­cu­pa­ti­ons by new con­tracts, over­ta­king „sa­les­per­son“. The se­cond most po­pu­lar trai­ning oc­cu­pa­ti­on among young men re­mains „IT spe­cia­list“, fol­lo­wed by „elec­tro­nics tech­ni­ci­an“ and „plant me­cha­nic for sa­ni­ta­ry, hea­ting and air con­di­tio­ning tech­no­lo­gy“, which swap­ped places com­pared to the pre­vious year. This is fol­lo­wed in the ran­king for young men by the trai­ning oc­cu­pa­ti­ons „sa­les­per­son“ and now „in­dus­tri­al me­cha­nic“. The first six oc­cu­pa­ti­ons ac­count for 28 per­cent of all new trai­ning con­tracts con­cluded with men as of Sep­tem­ber 30, 2022. Spe­cia­lists for re­stau­rants and event ca­te­ring are ma­king huge gains again In the ran­king of trai­ning oc­cu­pa­ti­ons by new con­tracts over­all, the new­ly clas­si­fied trai­ning oc­cu­pa­ti­on of „spe­cia­list for re­stau­rants and event ca­te­ring“ (pre­vious­ly: re­stau­rant spe­cia­list) made the big­gest leap for­ward with 16 places among the oc­cu­pa­ti­ons with the hig­hest num­ber of trai­nees. With 3,750 (2021: 1,944) new trai­ning con­tracts in 2022, the num­ber of new con­tracts has al­most dou­bled. One re­ason for this sharp in­crease is li­kely to be the re­m­oval of co­ro­na­vi­rus rest­ric­tions in the hos­pi­ta­li­ty in­dus­try. Source: Fe­de­ral In­sti­tu­te for Vo­ca­tio­nal Edu­ca­ti­on and Trai­ning (BIBB)