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Profession and career solutions The ability to work in a team and strong communication skills are also important criteria as many projects are carried out in interdisciplinary teams according to Gruner another trend is the increasing importance of sustainability and environmental awareness companies are increasingly looking for engineers who have knowledge of sustainable technologies and processes and can contribute to achieving the company’s ecological goals More choice companies that can afford to recruit anticyclically can currently hope to fill their vacancies as required Like inpotron a manufacturer of power supply units and power supply solutions whose balance sheet was hit by the sluggish economy this year for the first time in many years With one advantage all vacant positions have been filled “very well” and the supply of wellqualified personnel has increased says inpotron owner Hermann Püthe The current period is therefore also an opportunity for recruiting “if you can afford it and want it” incidentally companies that can integrate englishspeaking employees well have an advantage as there are more englishspeaking profiles on the market especially in the technical areas says nadja eder However many companies are not yet ready The influence of artificial intelligence sandra Maile is ceo at fortec supplier of individual components and systems in the fields of display technology embedded systems and power supplies When staff turnover occurs the company checks whether the vacant position can be developed further “through ai or the strategic direction of the company” and uses the opportunity to change things she announced back in the summer does this mean that the substitutability of engineering work with ai is already playing a role? Question to dr annina Hering from indeed To a certain extent she says recent studies by indeed on ai have shown this “We have investigated which skills generative artificial intelligence can take on today and we can see that tasks involving mathematics and data in particular as well as writing and reporting functions can increasingly be performed by ai ” says Hering it will have an impact on job profiles if ai agents increasingly take on routine tasks engineers would concentrate on their core tasks nevertheless ai will probably only slightly alleviate the shortage of engineers at best The experts currently seem to agree on this for example dr Britta Matthes from the institute for employment research iaB who analysed the substitutability of engineers for a Vde paper “High substitutability potential does not mean that the professions will no longer exist in the future ” rather the aim is to make the work of engineers more efficient and free up time for more complex creative tasks through automation Matthes therefore gives the allclear to those who are worried about ai The use of ai requires the assessment and classification of engineers their knowledge ai can only be used productively when it is combined with specialist knowledge Matthes therefore does not believe that the demand for engineers in electrical engineering and information technology will decrease in view of the great potential for automation in engineering work instead she even anticipates a “significant increase in demand” This is because the combination of demographic change which will see many engineers retire and increasing digitalization will lead to growing demand However this also means that the “skill set” for personal employability is becoming increasingly important – a hobbyhorse of Prof Thorsten Weiss from ravensburg-Weingarten University of applied sciences rWU especially in view of the currently weakening job market a degree alone is no longer enough to get your dream job effortlessly “in my observation generalists no longer have it so easy employers are currently looking specifically for suitable candidates for their specific tasks as familiarization with complex topics is very timeconsuming and expensive ” engineers can also take confidence from the noncyclical factors The slump does not change the structural shortage of skilled workers The Bavarian industry association vbw is reporting insolvencies shorttime working and declining employment and is therefore warning the negotiating partners against overambitious wage demands However measures to secure skilled workers are just as urgent This is because the shortage of skilled workers and labor will remain a challenge in the medium and long term The reason an ageing society mk in difficult times like the current one recruiting tends to be even more strategic explains nadja eder Managing director of schuheder consulting im ag e in de ed The latest figures from indeed show that vacancies for electrical engineers and software developers have fallen at an aboveaverage rate with electrical engineers even seeing a 20% drop compared to the previous year 7 PciM Magazine 02 2024