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How the Marzahn-based family-run company LKM is fighting the search for skilled workers<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe pension is looming,\u201d explains Kai Hessel. Almost a third of the workforce at the Marzahn-based family business LKM will be retiring sooner or later, taking their experience and knowledge with them. \u201cHard to cope with,\u201d says senior boss Gerd Hessel. The entrepreneurial family is fighting this with all its strength and, above all, ingenuity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not so long ago, Hamse Solgi was repairing oil pipelines on land and under water in Iran. A dangerous and unhealthy work. After fleeing his home country, he came to southern Germany and finally to Berlin. Here he found work at LKM GmbH Berlin Laseranwendung f\u00fcr Kunststoff- und Metallverarbeitung in Boxberger Strasse. The company is a group of companies in which almost the entire family implements entrepreneurial ideas \u2013 from the production of a transport box for cargo bikes to a machining operation for large components. \u201cOnly a few people in Germany can do that,\u201d says Junior Kai Hessel, Managing Director of Hessel Metall+Kunststoff GmbH.<\/p>\n

LKM itself is a service provider for sheet metal processing and laser technology and manufactures custom-made products to customer specifications. What the companies have in common is that they all need well-trained specialists with highly specialized know-how. And these are becoming increasingly scarce, Gerd Hessel knows. A training period of two years is required to prepare employees for their tasks in the company. With the \u201cimpending retirement\u201d of a third of their employees, the Hessels have long since pulled out all the stops to creatively tackle the \u201cskills shortage\u201d problem.[\/vc_column_text]

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Das Portfolio der LKM GmbH reicht von Laseranwendungen f\u00fcr die Kunststoff- und Metallverarbeitung bis zur Produktion von Transportboxen f\u00fcr Lastenfahrr\u00e4der. | \u00a9 LKM<\/figcaption><\/figure>[vc_column_text]Hamse Solgi is now one of four employees from Syria, Ukraine, Tunisia and Iran, who have found a new professional home here by taking detours and overcoming various geographical and bureaucratic hurdles. \u201cNationality plays a subordinate role for us,\u201d explains Hessel senior. Cooperation with the employment agency is also showing \u201cgood results\u201d, he says. But the Hessels don\u2019t want to rely on this alone and are putting out feelers in all directions in their search for new employees and trainees: in schools, universities and, above all, on social networks. This is where they have had the most promising experiences so far. Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and similar services are not only used constantly, they also provide the most targeted and personal access to the coveted target group of \u201cyoung talent\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, both Gerd and Kai Hessel know how difficult it is to make their own job description \u2013 that of a metal and plastics processor \u2013 \u201csexy\u201d in the eyes of the target group. In times when the influencer or model is the ideal, three-shift work and physical labor are hard to sell. As a result, it is not uncommon for a third of students to be \u201cgaming\u201d on their cell phones during information days at the company. \u201cWe need to find out more about the needs of students and schools. Questions such as \u2018What do you earn during training, what afterwards? What does the day-to-day work actually look like\u2019 are of interest to young people. What\u2019s more, we as employers also need to make ourselves interesting and tell them more. As a company, we have to advertise ourselves in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

A project was also launched with the Wei\u00dfensee School of Art. The response has been good, the idea of working together on the development or design of new products in particular. \u201cBut we\u2019re still at the very beginning,\u201d says Gerd Hessel, whose second son Sven initiated the cooperation. In order to be successful, you need to address precisely those who are already interested in the company\u2019s field of activity or who work there. \u201cWe want to show what is possible,\u201d says Hessel.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Rico Bigelmann for POTENZIAL<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

LKM Berlin: Laser application for plastics and metal processing<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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