Press release No. 254 of 20 July 2016
WIESBADEN – A total of 516,639 young people concluded new apprenticeship contracts in 2015. This was a decline of 0.3% compared with a year earlier. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that management assistant for retail services ranked first again, accounting for 30,474 new apprenticeship contracts. It was followed by office manager, sales assistant for retail services, motor vehicle mechatronics technician and industrial clerk. These five most common vocational training occupations accounted for roughly a quarter of all newly concluded apprenticeship contracts.