Who Aspires to Go and Why - An Analysis Among Turkish University Students

Abstract

We are hitting one of the main entrepreneurial topics – companies and institutions are already experiencing massive difficulties in finding sufficient and qualified specialists as well as international workers. In particular, the topic of sustainability is strongly affected because companies need suitable experts and workers for the sustainability transformation, of which there is no sufficient supply. This is also a major issue for HSBI – testing, evaluating and consolidating innovative approaches to recruiting, retaining junior staff, flexible working models, systematic employer branding and structured competence development. The use of new technologies also plays an important role. With this conference, we wanted to sound out the skilled labour situation internationally, discuss consequences for companies, institutions and political decision makers. These also lead to follow-up activities in personnel policy and disruption in strategies. Above all, we can use digitalisation and internationalisation to discuss suitable ways out of the skilled labour crisis.