widthAs the express service of today, Pony Express appeared in the United States around 1860: The service provider used Ross and Reiter to transport mail and packages back and forth between Missouri and California. The company is also widely known for its memorable job advertisements: “Are you looking for thin, sturdy people under the age of 18. They must be experienced riders and willing to risk their lives every day.” Orphans prefer. “The cabaret artist Vince Ebert quoted an ad in his book “Broadway instead of the Way of St. James” and asked himself what a union is give Today I want to say something like this. Perhaps more interesting is how representatives of generations Y and Z comment on such job opportunities. “But I can only work eight hours a day at most!”, “What is a vacation?”, “What if my butt hurts while riding a bicycle?”
Seriously, no company today really wants to burn the thin orphans. When you talk to an employer, you will mainly hear questions about the applicant’s current personality. Technical qualifications are only the basic requirements of a job, and other qualities play a decisive role in recruitment. We are looking for passionate people. They should be motivated to become ideal young candidates for high-performance positions in the future, able to work in teams and be creative, have international experience, and be able to make fruitful contributions in a diversified work environment. In short: they should be interested in work that can destroy something.
But many young Germans are not interested in this. Instead, they are playing with public services. According to a survey of 2,000 students conducted by the consulting firm Ernst & Young in December last year, 26% of students wanted to become civil servants, 12% were attracted to the auto industry, 6% wanted to work in a bank, and 4% wanted to work in an insurance company. The pandemic may have played a role in making young people feel so insecure that they just want to get warm. “The experience of the crisis has made college graduates pay more attention to safety than ever before when choosing a career,” said Oliver Simon, a human resources expert at Ernst & Young. In addition, a generation of parents who only understand “promotion” and no longer “exactly” does not really help cultivate stable people who like to create, and if they succeed in tempting them to be prepared to take calculated risks. By the way, this is the definition of entrepreneurship.
The Anglo-Saxons invented a good nickname for these hesitant offspring: “Snowflake” stands for young people who melt when high pressure builds up. Their characteristic is not resilience, but the uniqueness of self-assessment, so they are worthy of protection. However, the most important thing is that they “woke up”: full of a deep sense of social justice-especially in terms of meeting their own needs. If snowflakes are among them, it won’t be so bad for German children. But they are not. Usually, young people from abroad who are eager to succeed come to us as students. The generation eager to learn speak foreign languages, like to move abroad and see opportunities in the possibilities of our country.
Most foreign students are from China
According to data from Deutsches Studentenwerk, Germany is the most important non-English-speaking host country for foreign students in 2019/20. Their share has exceeded 11%-92% of them want to graduate in Germany. This shows that many of these young foreigners are also willing to stay, live and work with us. Most are from China, with India in second place, followed by Syria. Germans also like to study abroad, but prefer to study in Austria, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, so here is as risk-free as possible.
Given these prerequisites, it is not difficult to predict that tomorrow’s boss of our company will be from Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East or Latin America. In any case, the descendants from the locality will not grow up so spoiled. People who like to work — and don’t just want to work to work — become the boss. For high-potential talents, for them, work-life balance still describes a balance, not just a balance between university, civil servant status, inheritance of parental inheritance, and early retirement, bringing people to the position of CEO.
