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Young Germans want to work

Published in: Algemeen Dagblad, Publication date: 02-11-2009

Faced with a shortage of technically trained young workers in the Netherlands, a temporary employment and secondment agency have switched their attention to Germany. The attitude of unemployed young people is also said to be better there. Trying to get Dutch drop-outs into work is like flogging a dead horse.

Scores of young trainees from eastern Germany will be starting out on technical courses in the Netherlands from early in 2010, with the aim of making good the shortfall in the labour market in the country. Job agency TecLine have set up special training projects at the ROC in Amsterdam.
While there are plenty of unemployed young people in the Netherlands, Muller will not be recruiting from among their number. Everybody is drawing from the same pool here. But we have also had to may bad experiences with Dutch youth. We have tried working with the UWV and the Youth Employment Taskforce when that was still in existence, trying to help drop-outs to find work, but we found we were flogging a dead horse. They simply don't have the motivation.

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