Bonn (dpa/tmn) – Will 2025 be a good year for employees? One thing is certain: in 2025, uncertainty on the labor market will increase rather than decrease. There might be some tougher meetings than others. What do applicants and employees have to prepare for? 5 important developments at a glance.
“In some sectors there could no longer be any talk of an employee market,” says Claudia Michalski, chairwoman of the Outplacement and Workforce Transformation specialist association in the Federal Association of German Management Consultancies (BDU). This applies, for example, to the automotive industry or in chemistry. “The complaint about the shortage of skilled workers is likely to have been resolved with this work,” is the expert’s assessment.
Those looking for work in areas such as marketing or software development also have to be prepared for a more complicated process, says Lisa Feist, economist at Indeed Hiring Lab.
Employees – whether with or without management responsibility – need more time to find work if they have lost their job, said Michalski. Anyone looking for work should invest more effort in applications and prepare for possible frustrations, waiting times and setbacks.
In addition, Feist adds: The negotiating power of companies has increased significantly again. This can be seen, for example, in the fact that employers are increasingly ordering their employees back to the office and are even accepting layoffs. Anyone looking for a new job will need more flexibility in terms of working models, time and money next year.
Wolfram Tröger, Vice President of the BDU, sees a two-part market. “There are industries in which employees can still afford everything, such as civil engineering engineers, in the field of AI or even tax consultants.”
According to Feist, the prospects for job seekers in 2025 remain better in occupational fields that are independent of the economy, such as education, nursing or social work, as well as in areas with a structural shortage of skilled workers such as crafts.
If you want to prepare yourself for the coming times, you need above all tolerance for ambiguity, says Michalski – that is, the ability to acknowledge and transfer ambiguity and uncertainty. “We have to deal with the fact that nothing is certain anymore, even if that is not a typically German characteristic.” This means, among other things, being open to new trends such as artificial intelligence (AI) and not being afraid of them.
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