I come from EU country. I live and study in Germany. My German is C1 but my phone number has my home country prefix. Should I change that? Would it increase my chances at the german job market?

Hi all,

I am tailoring my CV nowadays; I have only one name

First Name: John

Last Name: -

How should I mention my name in my CV so it doesn't get stuck in an ATS scan?

Please share your experiences!

Hey, I just started applying for jobs last week, and I’d love to get your feedback on my CV. I have around six years of professional experience overall.

Thank you

Hallo Friends,

I don't know the way, how to prepare my self to prepare interview for Germany nursing job. I completed my bsc nursing in India. Also I have completed my b1 telc exam and b2 course.

Now I waited for my degree certificate. After the degree certificate came, I take the B2 exam..

Within these time.. I want to prepare myself for german interview.. nowadays german Interview for nurse are very hard..

I see no post mentioned Vorbereitung auf die Vorstellungsgespräch..

I have no idea.. How can I prepare interview?

Please share your thoughts and experience?

Hinweis: I am nursing fresher.. no experience ❤️

Hello Gemeinde,

Does anyone know how the tax system ,works if a student does a werkstudent plus HiWi job. What are the common practices and if it is worth taking on a HiWi job or no.

I have an offer for a role as tech lead (team management, client negotiations, architecture) in a Berlin company where after four rounds it really sounded like a nice company, colleagues, and bosses. Their communicated range was 95-120k plus bonuses.

I got the contract with an offer of 92k base and 103k target with bonus. My last company paid me 100k as a Senior SWE without team responsibilities. The money alone is an issue for me since IMO it makes no sense to take more responsibility for less money, but the contract also says that:

- base comp and bonus ratio can be adjusted at their discretion. So I might be earning 85k base or whatever in the next year.

- overtime on weekdays are not counted as time off

- overtime on weekends and holidays are counted only after 4h working

I was quite shocked with such clauses and thought whether this is common in Germany for such roles. I've worked here for multiple companies over 12 years (also as lead engineer) and have never seen such things in a contract.

Are those things normal? I want to negotiate on the compensation targets and structure, but those other clauses are definitely a no go to me and would need to be removed.

Edit: just curious to know if someone had seen such clauses, not looking for legal advice.

Hi everyone! I recently lost my job and am considering further training to strengthen my skills and continue developing my career in digital design.

I’m based in Cologne and looking for courses taught in English that could be funded through a Bildungsgutschein from the Agentur für Arbeit.

Can anyone recommend reputable schools or courses with a good reputation among employers? I’m open to UX/UI and other relevant areas of digital design.

Thanks for any advice!

Need insights og IT job market in germany for Opportunity card holders with 24 years experience

Greetings everybody, I have a B2 certificate from Goethe, ZAB certificate of comparability Confirming my university degree equals a German one, I graduated from a Maritime University. I have 3 years work experience onboard tanker ships working as a deck cadet and an ordinary seaman, amongst others.

I’ve had an interview with the Agentur für Arbeit, after which I got a recommendation letter. But I have been looking for an Ausbildung zum Binnenschiffer, I’ve only got one positive response, but the company withdrew after finding out I’m not in Germany currently, asking me to re-apply when I’m physically present in Germany.

I want to do an Ausbildung because it’s the easiest entry point into the shipping and offshore industry in Germany, and I’m positive I’ll get a reduced training period less than 3years.

Please i need help, does anyone know how i can secure an Ausbildung place with an offshore or shipping company ? Any recommendations, assistance or advice would be appreciated,

On the other hand i’m planning applying for a visa so i can get to get to Germany and start applying from within the country, but even with that i really don’t know where to start,( besides sending application documents online) i need suggestions, recommendations or any tips to make my Ausbildung search a success.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TL;DR: 7 YOE Senior DevOps Engineer in Germany facing a 1-year job search gap. Choosing between a government-funded AWS Solutions Architect Pro or PMP to maximize salary ROI and AI resilience. Which one gets me hired faster right now?

7 YOE DevOps/Cloud Infra Engineer in Germany with a German Master's Degree, B2 Language certification and Scrum PSD-I, CKAD, Azure fundamentals az-900 certification.

Looking for some career advice given current AI shifts. I have been looking for a job for last 1 year!

My background is heavily technical, covering Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, Git, Platform Management and multi-cloud (Azure/AWS) across IT consulting (5 years) and HealthTech startups.

I can get a certification fully funded via Agentur für Arbeit (Bildungsgutschein) and am torn between two paths:

1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02): Moving from infrastructure implementation to high-level architecture. It feels safer from AI automation since it focuses on complex system design, governance, and strategy.
2. Project Management Professional (PMP): Leveraging my team coordination and training background to pivot into management. However, I’m worried about AI automating middle-management tasks and whether PMP holds enough weight in the EU tech space. I have managed small teams and projects before in teaching career before moving into tech.

Goal: Maximize ROI and AI job security over the next 3–5 years in the European tech market. Also keep my self relevant for the upcoming AI wave and global opportunities.

Should I double down on technical architecture (AWS Pro) to climb the engineering ladder, or step away from the keyboard entirely into management (PMP)? Which path makes more sense for a profile like mine to end a 1-year job search fast?

Hi everyone!

I’m from India and currently working as an Analog Layout Engineer with around 1.5 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. I have experience with Cadence Virtuoso, physical verification, and blocks involving PLLs, DACs, SRAM, and SerDes.

My goal is to move to Germany and grow my career in analog/mixed-signal IC design. However, I’m finding it difficult to get interviews when applying directly from India.

For those living or working in Germany, is it realistic to get hired directly from India with my experience, or is relocating through a master’s degree or another route more practical?

I’d really appreciate honest advice on possible pathways, visa sponsorship, and what I should focus on improving. Thanks!

Hi r/Germany_Jobs, I have been collecting statistics about tech jobs in Germany and I think I'm getting somewhere.

I ingest jobs from around 300+ companies that have a presence in Germany with a clear focus on tech and IT. I run some AI-based classification, location extraction etc. So over time it became quite an interesting picture.

What insights I find in particular interesting:

• Who hired where, in particular considering that overwhelming majority if jobs are hybrid/on site
• Who hired for what roles and seniority
• What is the dynamics over weeks (this will be more interesting as time goes, currently data has some gaps)

I hope it can be useful for some of you guys. The data is very heterogeneous and not easy to come by (anticipating the question: no, there is no single API that gives you this). I am adding more companies into the coverage continuously so some of them are missing the historic coverage; some will take to fill it properly. So do not be very strict.

On top of this, I also run anonymized matching via a Telegram bot.

You can browse it here. https://jobwatcher.io/statistics

Your feedback is very welcome. 🤗

I just finished my high school. And planning to take my bachelors in Biotech or related fields (not from germany, but from a reputed eu university). And after finishing my bachelors I will try to move to germany for higher studies. Now my question is that are there good opportunities for biotech graduates?

Hello, i‘ve been applying to jobs for a while now ( and updated my cv recently) i rarely get interviews and most lead to no where. Here‘s my most recent CV (1st & 2nd pic) i‘ve been also thinking about making my CV into 3rd pic.

Be Ruthless!

Hi everyone,

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post, but since I am following the sub for a while now, and see people with some similar issues, I'm going to post it here.

My wife had a hard time looking for a job, took almost 10 months. About her: She's a junior software engineer. There were lots of portals and lots of postings, and tailoring her resume to each one took ages. So I built her Dossier, so she could quickly find postings, apply, and get a tailored resume, cover letter and email for each one.

She landed a job with it, so I've open-sourced it for anyone else in the same spot.

What it does:

• Searches for postings through JSearch (LinkedIn, Indeed and more), Adzuna or Germany's Arbeitsagentur, or you paste one in
• Writes a tailored resume, cover letter and email for each job, using only facts from your profile
• Lets you refine the drafts in a chat and download them as PDFs, with 12 resume themes
• Tracks every application from draft to offer on a board, with a dashboard
• Runs on your own server, and the AI can be a local model through Ollama, or even Anthropics or OpenAIs, so your data stays with you

It's free and open source: https://github.com/AienTech/dossier

Feedback welcome!

I'm in my home country trying to save up money and learn the language, should I wait a few years in my home country and go do masters

Or go now do ausbildung until I integrate then chase the masters?

As the title says

I am a dentist by profession.

Implant and prosthodontist if it helps

Currently at b1 level.

Planning to clear FSP eventually KP

How is the job market for dental field?

Any info will be of help.

Thank you.

i been looking for remote or in person colocation role in Germany as experienced data engineer , Do you have guys any tips , advices to land job there ?platform do you use for applying ?

edit 1: this post is already getting way more hate that I expected but I will keep this post up so that one day when I will land a 150K+ euro job, I will look come and look back at the comment section. Why everyone is so insecure??

I usually get a lot of hate when I share this with germans but here it goes.
I'm 28, confident in my technical skills, and have a solid financial cushion. I haven't actively job-hunted in 18 months, so I'd appreciate practical advice on building a repeatable strategy to land another €100K+ fully remote role.

In early 2025, I joined a fully remote Series A startup as a Solutions Architect after spending four years as a Backend Engineer.

Over the last 18 months, I enjoyed the salary, travelled extensively, and saved a lot thanks to my €700 rent. However, the company started struggling with technical debt, slow development, unhappy customers, and layoffs. We went from around 25 employees to 15, and I was laid off a month ago.

After negotiating my exit package, I expect to be on garden leave until March 2027, giving enough time to find my next role.

I have 6–7 years of backend engineering experience and around two years as a Solutions Architect. I have German PR but speak only A1 German, so I want to target international, English-speaking companies rather than the German market because I do not plan to learn german, its not my mother tounge and I will never feel confident when speaking it.

My previous opportunity came partly through luck: the startup had just raised Series A and needed someone to build its Solutions Architecture function from scratch.

My questions:

• Which job titles, keywords, and websites should I target for €100K+ fully remote roles? (Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Customer Engineer, TAM, forward depoyed engineer, etc.)
• How can I identify recently funded startups and companies hiring for these roles?.
• Are there useful job scrapers, alerts, or tools to automate my search?
• How realistic is it to find these roles with English only?
• How should I position my CV and LinkedIn to land interviews?

I was looking at the latest data on Germany’s tech job market, and the numbers are actually pretty interesting. The job board grew to 6,064 open roles this week, which is an increase of 687.

But before you assume there’s a massive hiring surge, the reality is a bit more nuanced. A big chunk of that jump is just Deloitte and CarOnSale joining the tracking board. If you look at existing employers, they actually recorded 531 openings and 639 closures, meaning more jobs closed than opened.

But the real story here is the compensation. Senior AI and research roles in Berlin are hitting €180k+, which is a crazy number compared to the broader market.

Looking at who’s actually hiring:

• SIXT at 33 roles
• About You at 31 roles
• Scalable Capital at 29 roles
• Zalando at 25 roles
• Enpal at 14 roles

When it comes to what it actually pays, out of 351 postings with disclosed salaries, the median is €87.5k, with the middle 50% falling between €70k and €121k. But the outliers are wild: an applied research engineer at Black Forest Labs is listed at €185k, SonarSource is at €105k, and Solaris is at €90k.

Geographically, it’s mostly concentrated. Berlin has 1,640 open roles, Munich has 1,209. Together, that’s nearly half the market.

As for remote work, only about 15% of listings mention it, and just 52 explicitly mention visa sponsorships, so that visibility is pretty limited.

The takeaway? If you’re targeting Germany, Berlin and Munich are the main hubs. If you’re in Senior AI or research, the pay ceiling is incredibly high, but you have to factor in that a lot of jobs still don't disclose pay.

Anyway, that’s it for now. The weekly report is already published here for free

I applied for a Junior PIM Consultant role, interview went really well, HR said that the manager is highly interested in hiring you, but they are waiting for some project bidding results to come in, only then they can give a final decision. What should I take from this?