Es fehlen immer mehr Erzieherinnen und Erzieher - Job Speed Dating eine Lösung? | ERZIEHERKANAL

The shortage of skilled workers in the field of early childhood education continues to struggle. Many institutions are desperately looking for staff and have to shorten their opening hours due to a shortage of staff. By 2030, according to the Bertelsmann Foundation, over 230,000 educators will be missing. To find a solution for the staff worries, an institution in Bavaria is using an alternative method. A job speed dating. You will find out in this video what exactly is behind it, what I think about it and what I see as the actual problem. The idea of ​​job speed dating has been around for a long time, also in other areas of the workforce. At present, however, the need and the need for pedagogical skilled workers in the classroom area is so enormous that more and more institutions are resorting to alternative recruiting ideas for potential colleagues. A children's home in Lower Bavaria is also currently struggling. Let's take a look at what is actually behind the job speed dating and how the institution will implement it. The concept behind it is that the institution invites interested and qualified people without binding and without the well-known bureaucratic application procedures. The whole thing works without registration. Interested people can appear for this speed dating at the specified time. According to the team leader of the institution, a meeting takes place in a relaxed atmosphere in the garden of the institution. The interpersonal should be at the forefront, without looking directly at the performance, each individual grade, qualification and training of the person. It is therefore examined whether it fits at all on an interpersonal and personal level between the institution and the workforce. So the first hurdle of an application can be taken in a personal and interpersonally appealing way. The institution logically hopes that it is convinced of its work and ultimately comes to the point that suitable skilled workers are found. I think the idea is good in principle. But whether such a job speed dating is for everyone is another question. I can't even estimate whether I would personally go there if I were to look for a job. But I think alternative and possibly innovative ideas to solve the lack of staff are good and I think it's great when institutions think, develop such ideas and take other paths. Above all, I recognize the spark of a, in my opinion, very important thing, which in my eyes is still missing in many institutions in the early stages. Namely, the change in the outdated way of thinking and the point of view that it is the task of the workforce to apply and present themselves in a totally artificial framework as best as possible, to advertise for themselves and then to hope that the institution is so kind and nice to put you under miserable conditions. There is also an explanation for the miserable conditions. This just described outdated way of thinking between employer and employee may have been the case in the past, but today, especially in times of lack of staff, it is absolutely no longer the case in our area. It's not that the staff have to advertise for themselves to get a job, but that the institutions have to advertise for themselves to convince the staff. Of course, the professional quality of the applicants should still be correct. I am not at all a fan of the reduction of the professional quality in the training or the pedagogical staff. But with boring, unspeakable job descriptions in which the 08-15 slogans are used, there is no individual or concrete information, such as the concept, the everyday life, the salary modalities, etc. and the job description is only half of what the staff should bring with them, what they have to do and what they have to adjust to, I am absolutely not surprised that there are institutions that simply do not find staff. Let's take a look at the current situation in Germany. In Germany, almost 100,000 pedagogical staff are already missing today. By 2030, this is expected to increase to over 230,000 missing staff. The need is great, the framework conditions are bad. Many pedagogical staff leave the profession due to the bad framework conditions. It is common practice in many institutions that a staff member is responsible for 15 children at the same time. In some institutions, staff members have to work alone with many children, which is absolutely not compatible with the care and supervisory duty. If you look at the BAMA health insurance report, you will find that parents in early childhood education with 26.5 average days of illness per year are often above average sick. The German average is just under 19 days above all professional groups. The main reason for the above average high days of illness are not, as one might assume, infectious diseases or back or knee problems. The reason is psychological illnesses such as chronic overload, depression and burnout. All a symptom of the bad framework conditions and the high burden in the field of early childhood education. The problem is generally that there are currently simply too few professionals for the need. The federal government, however, sticks to the legal requirement for a children's hospital. It even continues to expand it and at the same time knows what the situation in children's hospitals looks like, that it has been getting worse for years and that the forecasts are not getting better. It does not put the priorities on protection and quality improvement for professionals and children, but on quantity. That the legal claim is being pulled through and more and more children have the claim to a children's hospital. So quantity over quality. I believe that the fault is not individual facilities or small carriers, even if they naturally have a certain playground and can be more attractive as an employer. I also see here in the community again and again many committed, but desperate management forces doing their best. Something has to happen politically, so that laws and structures in early childhood education provide for quality. That would benefit children, professionals and parents. But is simply unattractive to win political elections. It is more about how many kindergartens were built and how many children were accommodated in facilities. Prof. Klaus Fröhlich-Gildhoff formulated concrete demands on politics in a position paper. I also made an extra video in coordination with him. I link this to you in the video description. At the same time, I can encourage professionals to engage in unions for better conditions in the tariff contracts. At the same time, I recommend the kindergarten professional associations of the individual federal states. These are committed to better framework conditions and more quality in the facilities. What is your opinion on the subject? Do you have an idea that could be efficient against the lack of professionals? Can a job speed dating be a solution or do you think that's total nonsense? Feel free to write a comment.