“You just don’t hear anything”: Why applications are ignored so often

Christian Schuster knows how rare his qualification is. The 53-year-old mechanical engineering technician with HTL degree works in the niche industry of industrial fittings. In Austria you can count the few manufacturers on one hand. “Actually, as a applicant, it is easy to talk to a conversation,” he says. But when he applies to a large company, nothing happens – nothing.