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EURES Germany
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Kerstin Whalley

• EURES adviser
• Agentur für Arbeit Berlin Mitte
• phone [phone] 2636
• fax [phone] 2640
• E-mail Berlin-Mitte.Europaservice_at_arbeitsamt.de

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Working in Germany

• Requirements
• Labour market situation
• Job search
• More useful information
• Berlin

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Qualifications and skills needed

• Language skills (German, often ENGLISH as well)
• Precise goal
• tolerance
• adaptability
• endurance
• Good planning
• own initiative

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Labour Market I

•   02/ 2004     01/ 2004 02/2003
  Germany  
•   11,1 11,0 11,3
• vacancies
• 309.064 276.732 389.034
• West Germany  
• 8,9 8,9 9,0
• vacancies
• 263.304 233.850 328.196
• East Germany      
• 19,4 19,1 19,9
• vacancies
• 45.760 42.882 60.838

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Labour market situation II

• Needed professions
• Doctors and nurses
• Teachers
• engineers (e.g. supplying industry for cars,
  aircraft industry, eletronics, mechanical
  engineering)
• Skilled workers for metal industry (CNC
  experienced, mechanics, cutter, welder)
• life scientists
• call center staff
• skilled and unskilled staff for hotel and
  catering e.g. chefs, waiters to work at North Sea
  Coast or in the Alpes

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Labour Market III

• Too many candidates
• construction workers
• civil engineers architects
• social scientists
• media
• Humanists
• Workers in textile industry
• unskilled workers
• regions Baden-Württemberg (6,5), Bayern 7,9,
  Rheinland-Pfalz (8,1), Hessen (8,5) Hamburg
  10,6, Schleswig-Holstein (10,6),
  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 21,8, Brandenburg 19,9,
  Berlin 18,1

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Perspektive Deutschland

• www.stern.de gt Perspektive Deutschland

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Job search

• EURES http//europa.eu.int/eures
• All job offers www.arbeitsagentur.de
• In specific cities www.meine-stadt.de

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Job search II

• Newspapers (Frankfurter Allgemeine, Süddeutsche,
  Die Zeit, local papers e.g. Berliner Morgenpost,
  Hamburger Abendblatt)
• Internet (www.crosswater-systems.com )
• Professional organisations and trade journals
  (www.mediamonster.de)
• Temporary work / private agencies
• recruitment fairs and trade fairs in general
  (www.auma.de )

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Job search III

• unsolicited application (Initiativbewerbung)
• Networking
• Transfer of unemployment benefits for 3 months
  (E303)
• problems
• rather difficult labour market situation
• no longterm recruitment, staff planning of
  companies
• jobseekers are expected to start asap

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Work experience (Praktikum)

• No placement services through public jobcentres
• Often only programs for students
• requirements German, longterm search for
  suitable company, precise plans
• www.berufsstart.de
• www.praktika.de
• www.jobpilot.de
• www.internship.de

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Bewerbung

• Application modalities
• application with a folder consisting of
• typed covering letter,
• CV with complete list of former occupations,
• photograph,
• certificates

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Vocational training

• Duales System der Berufsausbildung
• Vocational education at vocational regular
  schools
• University educationuniversities and
  establishments of higher education(FHs)
• studying is free of cost, financial support
  (Bafög) is possible

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Wages and deductions

• Lohn-/Einkommenssteuer (19,9 to 48,5 tax
  exemption limit from 7.235 for singles and
  14.471 for couples)
• Steuerklassen (tax bands) und Steuertabelle (tax
  table)
• Tax declaration (Einkommenssteuererklärung)
• Church tax (8)
• Solidaritätszuschlag (5)
• Social security (½ employer, ½ employee)
• Krankenversicherung (12-14,5)
• Pflegeversicherung (1,7)
• Rentenversicherung (19,1)
• Arbeitslosenversicherung (6,5)

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Accomodation

• Renting normally no problem
• Newspaper advertisements, city magazine (e.g.
  Tipp, Zitty) or internet
• Real estate agent
• Apartment-sharing centrese.g. www.mitwohnzentrale
  .de

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Interesting Internetsites

• www.arbeitsagentur.de
• www.deutschland.de
• www.germany-info.org (facts about Germany)
• www.dwelle.de
• www.auswaertiges-amt.de
• www.meinestadt.de
• www.berlin.de
• www.germany-tourism.de

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Berlin Its a poor but sexy city (Mr Wowereit)

• Positive
• Low costs of living
• Low costs of renting industrial estates
• Superb cultural life
• Exciting nightlife
• The place to be for designers (clothes etc)
• Negative
• Very difficult labour market situation
• Hardly any industry other than government,
  tourism, fairs, call centres

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Berlin Its a poor but sexy city (Mr Wowereit)

• Positive
• Low costs of living
• Low costs of renting industrial estates
• Superb cultural life
• Exciting nightlife
• The place to be for designers (clothes etc)
• Negative
• Very difficult labour market situation
• Hardly any industry other than government,
  tourism, fairs, call centres

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EURES Germany 2003
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Euroguidance Germany 2003

Flensburg
Kiel
Rostock
Lübeck
Berlin Südwest
Stade
Hamburg
Bremen
Frankfurt/Oder
Magdeburg
Rheine
Dresden
Erfurt
Aachen
Frankfurt
Pirna
Trier
Nürnberg
Rastatt
Passau
Ulm
München
Lörrach
Rosenheim
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European Service Teams 2004

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Flensburg
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Rostock
Hamburg
Bremen
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Hannover
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Magdeburg
Europaservice
Dortmund
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Köln
Erfurt
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Frankfurt/M
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Trier
Nürnberg
Saarbrücken
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Raststatt
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Stuttgart
München
Konstanz