In a tight labor market, asylum seekers are needed to fill jobs.
Syrian refugee Mohammed Kassim, left, and Sheraz Chaudry, a refugee from Pakistan, are training as electrical engineers at Campus Handwerk in Garbsen, Germany. By Griff Witte and Griff Witte Europe-focused correspondent with extensive experience in the Middle East and South Asia Email Bio Follow Luisa Beck Luisa Beck Reporter covering Europe from The Washington Post's Berlin bureau Email Bio Follow May 5 GARBSEN, Germany — In his native Syria, Mohammed Kassim worked as an electrician.
“We have real reasons — not just soft, feel-good ones — to assist and help and push refugees into vocational training,” said Günter Hirth, an economist with the Chamber of Commerce in the central German city of Hanover. “The German economy needs qualified workers.” Germany, meanwhile, is benefiting from the demographic profile of its new arrivals, about 60 percent of whom were 25 or younger.Kassim, 30, and Chaudry, 19, are among those who hope apprenticeships will launch them into middle-class lives. With a shrinking native population, Germany desperately needs those young people.
Sigmar Walbrecht, who directs workforce integration projects at the Hanover Refugee Council, tries to convince refugees he meets that they would be better off training for a higher-skilled job, even if it pays less right now. But the allure of a quick paycheck is strong. But many young Germans are opting to bypass this traditional path to a middle-class life and gravitating toward university degrees instead. Last year, one-third of German companies said they had training spots that went unfilled as vacancies hit a 20-year high.
“Back home, I liked to fix things with my hands. It was a hobby for me. And I thought: ‘Why not make that my job?’ ” said Ramadan, who fled the war in Syria.
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