Understanding what's in the frequently reported and discussed high demand in IT specialists in Germany - is the IT Fachkräftemangel real?
is the IT Fachkräftemangel real?


It is not. Reports fail to filter out the abundance of fake job posts with which intermediaries saturate --and obfuscate-- the labor market. This is the actual reason why intermediaries hardly ever give candidates any concrete information about the alleged job positions. Consequently, reports headlining a "shortage of skilled professionals" are meaningless.

To a great extent this also happens in the U.S., Canada, and perhaps other regions. But the fact that one same position is advertised by several intermediaries (very often their list of requirements being the same, verbatim) obviously does not mean that there are several open positions.

The broad unawareness regarding this issue allows for air castles when it comes to discussing the pseudo "shortage" of labor supply in labor markets.