The new two-year qualified job industrial electrician provides broad basic knowledge and helps to ensure a reservoir of young skilled labour. The publication describes the development and implementation of the new profession as well as first practical results. Vocational school teachers and trainers of the training years 2009 and 2010 were interviewed about different topics: training disposition in companies, marketability and training opportunities of young people with lower school-leaving qualifications and employment opportunities. The publication developed within the scope of the project "Wissenschaftliche Begleitung und Evaluation des neuen zweijährigen Ausbildungsberufs Industrieelektriker/in" (scientific accompaniment and evaluation of the new two-year qualified job industrial electrician), which the Bavarian metal and electrical industry subsidised.