Job and Career are Topics at the Transport Logistic

Finding, integrating, and retaining employees. This is also a focus at transport logistic 2025, which brings together logistics professionals from around the world in Munich from June 2 to 5. Exhibitors as potential employers and a conference program featuring experts from research and practice make the international trade fair for logistics, mobility, IT, and supply chain management a hub for personnel and leadership topics.

(Munich) “The fair is all about the future of logistics. And because it is unimaginable without people, the fair increasingly addresses a future in logistics. This is reflected in the numerous personnel topics in the conference program and on the special areas,” says Dr. Robert Schönberger, Global Industry Lead of transport logistic. The new podcast “transport logistic hörbar” addresses topics such as young talent, diversity, and training in the lead-up to the fair.

Opportunities as an Employer

Personnel topics run throughout the entire conference program and occupy three of the four forums on the last day of the fair. Companies are leveraging the young talent and skilled workforce potential of the international leading trade fair. At the last transport logistic, one in ten visitors was in training or studying (9%), nearly one-fifth attended as professional visitors without personnel responsibility (18%), and two-thirds (69%) were in leadership positions from team leaders to managing directors.

Career Platform Campus Plaza

On Thursday (June 5), the Campus Plaza connects exhibitors and fair visitors on the topic of “Employer in the Spotlight.” In 30-minute presentations, impulses in the areas of personnel management and personnel development will be provided. The speakers will discuss topics such as employer branding, new work, and modern working environments, employee retention and development, as well as sustainability as an employer topic. Thus, the Campus Plaza will simultaneously serve as a networking platform for employers, a job platform for potential young talent, skilled workers, and executives, and a stage for the logistics working world for one day.

More Dynamics, Less Personnel

Service providers, infrastructure operators, and shippers along the supply chain are seeking personnel. Employees are becoming a critical factor for long-term business success. Not only finding but also integrating and retaining are the topics in the congress program of transport logistic. Highlights include

• “Resilience in Personnel Management (Forum Hall B1, June 5, 10:00 AM): The Federal Association of Logistics e.V. discusses mental health and resilience under increasing pressure and growing dynamics.
• “Young Talent Wanted” (Forum Hall B1, June 5, 11:30 AM): Verkehrsrundschau discusses with transport and logistics companies the best strategies against the shortage of apprentices and skilled workers.
• “Fully Automated Transport” (Hall B1.232, June 4, 10:00 AM) and other forums on the fair topics of digitization and sustainability highlight where humans remain irreplaceable and what they need.
• “Professional Drivers – Immigration – Make it Easy!” (Forum Hall A2, June 2, 2:30 PM): Accelerating and simplifying skilled labor immigration. The IHK for Munich and Upper Bavaria presents reforms.
• “Motivation for Drivers” (Forum Hall A3, June 4, 3:00 PM): The Technical University of Augsburg shows based on research results what drivers value and what can make the profession more attractive.
• On June 5, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, the topics “Employer Branding” (Wirtschaftsmacher, Forum Hall A2) and “Developments in the Working World, Focus on Women” (LogWork Pink, Forum Hall A1) are on the agenda.

Logistics Puts People at the Center

“The transport logistic not only offers innovative technologies and processes – logistics as a field of work puts people at the center,” says Schönberger. “The transport logistic is evolving in this context into a career platform. On the one hand, the share of educational providers is growing. On the other hand, exhibitors are presenting themselves as employers. This appeals to young talent, but also to skilled and executive personnel interested in the field of logistics.”

Photo: © Messe München / Caption: The Campus Plaza also acts as a career platform at transport logistic