FINDING FUTURE MASTER CRAFTSMEN FOR A TECHNICAL PRODUCTION FACILITY

The production plant of the textile industry with around 3,500 employees is located in a region with a lot of larger employers. When these larger companies – who pay for the IG-Metall tariff instead of the textile tariff – were looking to take on qualified master craftsmen, the smaller production company was faced with a considerable fluctuation of master craftsmen, which for a time had a restricting effect on production. Against this backdrop, a “master's” programme was developed which uses psychological diagnostics to identify a pool of potential master craftsmen and continually provides them with master training thereby future fluctuation peaks can be better ironed out.

Extensive requirement analyses were carried out for the various master positions and a bespoke test procedure was compiled for the company. In addition, the multimodal interview  MMI®  and management roleplay were used.