Poor internal communication, in combination with the increasingly uncertain situation at companies: this ensures that employees change jobs more quickly. Personnel expert from Linz (Upper Austria) advises companies that prefer to put the brakes on because of the uncertainty: Dare to do something!
Bankruptcies are on the rise, the number of new vacancies reported to the AMS is falling, the call for short-time work is getting louder – Iris Schmidt, head of the AMS Oberösterreich, summarized all this under the term “declining trends”. Bettina Kern notes increasing “economic uncertainty”. The 44-year-old runs the Kern recruitment agency with her partner Christian Geissler.
The company from Linz focuses on technicians and IT specialists. The slowdown in consumer behavior and the shrinking order book are already leaving visible traces, Kern notes: “Everyone is still clamoring for staff, but you already notice that companies are accepting vacancies or taking more time to fill them.”
The increasing uncertainty is working in different directions. “Employees are increasingly willing to change jobs again,” says Kern. Where internal communication is poor or absent, well-qualified people are now starting to look around.
“Lost Forever”
In the application process, however, uncertainty is “poison”: “The candidate senses when companies step on the brakes. If, despite an original commitment, suddenly nothing happens, the company has lost the candidate for good.”
What is your advice to companies now? “Even during the pandemic, the companies that dared to do something won. It’s the same now. Everyone who hires people now has an advantage. Because the gap that the baby boomers have created is getting bigger and bigger.”
Source: Krone
I’m Ben Stock, a journalist and author at Today Times Live. I specialize in economic news and have been working in the news industry for over five years. My experience spans from local journalism to international business reporting. In my career I’ve had the opportunity to interview some of the world’s leading economists and financial experts, giving me an insight into global trends that is unique among journalists.
