For the second time in a row, the LogiMAT Campus, LogiMAT’s career and networking event, opens up options for new perspectives in intralogistics for potential junior staff and experienced specialists.
Numerous companies are once again using the LogiMAT Campus as an additional recruiting tool this year. The shortage of skilled workers and workers is one of the current key challenges for competitiveness across all industries. According to the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK), 43 per cent of companies are currently having problems filling vacancies. According to a Bitkom study, there is a shortage of around 149,000 experts in the IT sector of German companies alone. “We are currently experiencing a profound transformation of the labour market that is far from complete,” says Daniela Komolafe, Manager Talent Acquisition, Recruiting & Engagement, at the mechanical engineering company Konecranes.
“This development presents companies with ever greater challenges. It is becoming increasingly important to find creative solutions to attract skilled workers and retain them in the long term.”
As a result, most companies have now significantly expanded their recruiting tools beyond ad-based job offers. Miebach Consulting, for example, takes part in recruiting fairs, lectures and workshops at universities and, in addition to external recruiters with job postings on google for jobs, indeed and LinkedIn as well as active sourcing on LinkedIn, also uses social media to recruit skilled workers. In addition, attractive offers are offered to the skilled workers.
According to the ‘Trend Study 2025,’ which was presented by the Augsburg Institute for Generational Research at the beginning of January 2025, young applicants in particular expect their future employer to show appreciation, leadership skills and health promotion in addition to flexible working time models and home office. Companies like Miebach meet this demand, among other things, with a dynamic corporate culture, flat hierarchy, small teams and exciting projects at renowned international companies.
In addition, job aspirants can take advantage of attractive remuneration and career models, the assumption of accident insurance and company pension schemes, training programmes and flexible working hours. “With a well-thought-out recruiting strategy as well as the right tools and methods, we have once again succeeded in filling our positions promptly and appropriately this year,” says Ute Hittinger, Senior Recruiter & Process Owner, Viastore Group. “However, the time and financial effort for this has increased significantly.”
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this background, the LogiMAT trade fair organiser EUROEXPO Messe- und Kongress-GmbH has launched a career and networking event with the LogiMAT Campus. On Thursday, March 13, 2025, LogiMATCampus will take place for the second time as part of LogiMAT 2025 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the new location in the ICS foyer at the Stuttgart Exhibition Center. “The LogiMAT Campus was launched last year to expand the exhibitors’ recruiting tools and to open a door to logistics for those interested in jobs with the platform,” explains LogiMAT Exhibition Director Michael RuchTy.
“The matching offer was still in its infancy, but was already well received by both sides. Many exhibitors will be there again this year. In addition, we have further optimised the concept over the past twelve months. I am confident that with the LogiMAT Campus 2025 we will experience a successful event focus within the framework of LogiMAT.”
With the LogiMAT Campus, the trade fair organiser offers all interested students, vocational school students, career changers and job seekers who want to get started in logistics a platform for initial contacts and further information from logistics-related companies. Among others, well-known system integrators and plant manufacturers as well as software companies, industrial truck manufacturers, logistics consultants and service providers such as the Beumer Group, Konecranes, Miebach Consulting and the Viastore Group will be at the start.
At their information booths on the LogiMAT Campus, potential job aspirants will come into direct contact with contact persons from the exhibitors’ specialist and personnel departments. The focus is on the job profiles and requirements of the current job offers as well as the career prospects and further training opportunities in the companies. In addition, the LogiMAT Campus offers an informative supporting program for potential junior staff with the Campus Sessions. There, industry experts will give helpful tips and report on their career experiences and their own career entry into logistics.
“We see a very large added value potential in this trade fair offer,” says Viastore recruiter Ute Hittinger. “Specifically, with our participation in 2025, we want to fill sales positions, project management and technical positions of PLC/mechatronics technician in particular. Our target group are graduates and young professionals from intralogistics in the areas of systems and software. Last year, however, experienced people from the industry also came to the campus to find out more.”
After the first contacts on the LogiMAT Campus, interested parties can deepen the information offered at the companies’ presentation booths in the exhibition halls and find out more about the industry and career opportunities. The University of Stuttgart, the WGTL e.V., the VDI and the fashion company HUGO BOSS, among others, support the LogiMAT Campus as event partners.
Applications directly on the LogiMAT Campus and afterwards
The fact that experienced specialists from the industry also come to the LogiMAT Campus fits perfectly into the requirements profile of Miebach’s management consultants. “Interested parties who came in 2024 were suitable, also a few experienced candidates and definitely interested,” says Sarah O’Brien, Human Resources Manager at Miebach Consulting. “We received applications directly at the trade fair and afterwards.” This year, the consultants want to attract experienced engineers with a degree in engineering and professional experience in the planning and implementation of logistics systems.
At Konecranes, however, the LogiMAT Campus appearance is more about attracting electricians and mechatronics engineers, “who can work with us as service technicians throughout Germany,” says Konecranes manager Daniela Komolafe. The mechanical engineering company, which is bound by collective bargaining agreements, offers them benefits, among other thingss for Remuneration Security including Special Payments, a Positive Working Atmosphere and Promotion of a Healthy Work-Life Balance, Good Internal Development Prospects and 30 Days of Vacation.
“The broad candidate and job profile offered by the exhibitors on the LogiMAT Campus reflects the diverse job profiles, fields of work and exciting areas of intralogistics that are often not even known to the public and potential job candidates, from electricians and mechatronics engineers to experienced engineers,” sums up trade fair director Ruchty. “With the LogiMAT Campus as part of LogiMAT, we have successfully set up an informative format that supports companies in recruiting skilled workers and opens up information and options for new perspectives in intralogistics for the young professionals and skilled workers among around 68,000 trade visitors to LogiMAT.”
