The number of vacancies is rising and rising

From January to June 2022, employers across Germany advertised over 5.4 million jobs – an increase of 14 percent compared to the first six months of the pre-coronavirus year 2019. In the first half of 2021, the number of jobs on offer was 4.1 million, according to Index Research.
The German job market is booming. Not even before the pandemic were as many jobs advertised as in the first six months of 2022. Employers are advertising between 1.2 and 1.4 positions every month. This was the result of a job market analysis by Index Research, which analyzed job advertisements published in 249 print media, on 349 online job exchanges and 136,000 company websites as well as on the job portal of the Federal Employment Agency.
Job advertisements by industry
Across Germany, the retail sector advertised the most jobs in the first half of 2022 with almost 829,000 positions, followed by industry (almost 772,000 positions) and the ICT sector (almost 500,000 positions). However, the largest number of job advertisements came from the personnel services sector. Personnel service companies published over two million job offers for their clients and for their own ranks.
Vacancies by profession
In terms of job profiles, most vacancies from January to June 2022 were aimed at skilled workers without desk jobs: almost 1.2 million vacancies were published for construction workers and tradespeople. Technical specialists such as engineers and architects were in second place with around one million vacancies. In third place are sales staff, for whom almost 886,000 vacancies were counted.
Regions with the greatest need for skilled workers
In the first half of 2022, the most advertised positions were in North Rhine-Westphalia (over 1.2 million positions), Bavaria (almost 1.2 million positions) and Baden-Württemberg (over 984,000 positions). In the city ranking, Berlin (over 436,000 positions) was at the top, well ahead of Munich (almost 280,000 positions) and Hamburg (more than 255,000 positions).
Job market: More and more applicants cancel their applications
In the current job market, employees are increasingly being given a choice – and more and more are deciding against an employment contract after a job interview. According to a survey conducted by the Respondi market research institute on behalf of the Königsteiner Group, more applicants are now turning down job offers than vice versa. The rejection often takes place after the interview or after the company has submitted an offer that is ready to be signed. Fewer people terminated the application process before the scheduled interview. However, these results are not universally valid: 1,000 people who had been in the application process in the past three years were surveyed. All participants were employed at the time of the survey: 81 percent full-time, 19 percent part-time. People just entering the labor market and job seekers were not included in the surveyed group Source: haufe.de