By Rene Wagner and Jan Schwartz
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BERLIN: Faced with a tight labour market and a shortage of workers with key software engineering skills, some German companies are looking at thousands of layoffs in Silicon Valley as an opportunity to recruit top talent.
The U.S. West Coast has always been the main destination for ambitious software engineers looking to work in the best-paid, most elite corner of their profession, but the mass redundancies have created a pool of jobseekers that Germany is eager to tap.
\"They fire, we hire,\" said Rainer Zugehoer, Chief People Officer at Cariad, the software subsidiary of automaker Volkswagen. \"We have several hundred open positions in the U.S., in Europe and in China.\"
Spooked by inflation and the prospect of recession, Google<\/a> parent Alphabet, Microsoft<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> owner Meta<\/a> have announced a combined almost 40,000 job cuts.
While Germany is also teetering on the edge of recession, its companies have grown more slowly in recent years and, in a country notorious for still handling business by fax, there are huge technology leaps to be made.
Germany, with one of the world's oldest populations, has gaping holes in its labour force: according to IT industry<\/a> group Bitkom, 137,000 IT jobs are unfilled.
The government is simplifying immigration rules and dangling the prospect of easily-acquired citizenship to tempt skilled would-be immigrants, and regional authorities are pressing ahead.
\"I would like to cordially invite you to move to Bavaria,\" wrote Judith Gerlach, digitalisation minister in Germany's wealthiest region on LinkedIn in a post addressed to the recently laid off.
Especially with the euro at dollar parity, few European companies pay rates that compete with the hundreds of thousands of dollars on offer at California's most successful companies, but some hope cheaper healthcare and lower costs compared to hotspots like San Francisco can help.
\"And did I mention Oktoberfest?\" Gerlach added, adding Munich's famed beer festival to the strong labour protections that might prove attractive to the newly jobless.
Some are sceptical, with Bitkom's Bernhard Rohleder noting that Germany is competing not just with other countries for the most talented, but with potential recruits' home countries too.
Germany's penchant for red tape could be another challenge: companies are already reporting months-long delays in securing appointments for their new hires to get work permits.
\"Bureaucracy in Germany is utterly crippling for most highly-qualified workers when they first encounter it, especially if they don't speak German,\" said Diana Stoleru of Berlin startup Lendis.
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他们火,我们聘请的大国——德国抓住在硅谷的困境
美国西海岸的主要目标一直是雄心勃勃的软件工程师工作薪酬最高,大多数职业精英的角落,但求职者的大规模裁员已经创建了一个池,德国急于利用。
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柏林:面对劳动力市场紧张、工人与关键软件工程技能的短缺,一些德国公司看着数以千计的裁员在硅谷为契机,招募顶尖人才。
美国西海岸的主要目标一直是雄心勃勃的软件工程师工作薪酬最高,大多数职业精英的角落,但求职者的大规模裁员已经创建了一个池,德国急于利用。
说:“他们火,我们雇佣Rainer Zugehoer人总监Cariad,汽车制造商大众(Volkswagen)的软件子公司。“我们有几百个空缺职位在美国,在欧洲和中国。”
吓坏了通货膨胀和经济衰退的前景,谷歌父母的字母,微软和脸谱网老板元宣布了裁员近40000人。
而德国也在衰退的边缘摇摇欲坠,中国企业近年来变得更慢,而臭名昭著的国家仍然处理业务传真,有巨大的技术飞跃。
德国,有一个世界上最古老的人口,劳动力的漏洞:根据它行业集团,137000年,职位是空缺的。
政府简化移民政策和晃来晃去的容易获得公民身份的前景来吸引熟练的准移民,和地区当局正在推动。
“我想诚恳地邀请你去巴伐利亚,”朱迪思Gerlach写道,数字化部长在德国最富有的地区在LinkedIn上一篇写给最近解雇了。
尤其是欧元与美元平价,一些欧洲企业工资与提供的成千上万的美元在加州最成功的公司,但一些希望便宜的医疗和更低的成本相比,热点和旧金山一样可以帮助。
”和我提到啤酒节吗?”Gerlach added, adding Munich's famed beer festival to the strong labour protections that might prove attractive to the newly jobless.
一些持怀疑态度,Bitkom Bernhard Rohleder指出德国竞争不仅与其他国家最优秀的,但潜在的新兵的母国。
德国喜欢繁文缛节的可能是另一个挑战:公司已经报告长达数月的延迟获得任命的新员工获得工作许可。
“官僚主义在德国是完全严重对于大多数高素质员工当他们第一次遇到它,特别是如果他们不讲德语,”戴安娜柏林Stoleru启动Lendis说。
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