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Your Questions, Answered!

Here’s a selection of the newsletters, articles, and posts that I’ve written on various topics relating to career orientation and the job search. I hope you’ll find them useful! If you have a question on searching for a job, figuring out your career path, working in Germany, or anything related, please send me an email or use the contact form, and it might just be the topic of my next newsletter.

Am I qualified in Germany?

150 150 speakinterculture: careers

Am I qualified? When compared to the international job market, the job market in Germany is extremely structured. Most Germans leave school with a vocational certification or a university degree that qualifies them for a specific career path. Some of these career paths are in regulated professions, which are strictly regulated. In these fields, employers…

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How to Format your Application

150 150 speakinterculture: careers

Packaging is Everything! If you clicked through the quiz, you’ll have learned that employers tend to review CVs quickly, spending just a few seconds with each application before sorting it into the “keep reading” pile or discarding it. According to an eye tracking study done by Ladders Inc, employers spend 7.4 seconds on average reading…

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Freelancing in Germany: The Basics

150 150 speakinterculture: careers

What is a freelancer, and why does it matter? Freelancers are self-employed individuals that – because of the type of work they do and/or because of their qualifications – are exempt from trade tax (Gewerbesteuer) and do not need to register as a business (Gewerbeanmeldung). In many countries, you can work as a freelancer quite…

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Where to Search?

150 150 speakinterculture: careers

Where can I search for English-language jobs? Where can I find jobs and internships in English speaking countries? The answer is that it really depends on what you want to do and where you want to go. I’ve collected a number of sites below. You’ll find job boards with different focus areas (general job boards,…

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Where to Search?

150 150 speakinterculture: careers

Where do I go to search for jobs in Germany? Where can I find quality job postings for jobs in Germany? This is a question I’m often asked – and the answer depends a lot on the field that you’re applying in. Below, I’ve collected sites from a variety of sources and for a number…

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Deciphering German Job Postings

150 150 speakinterculture: careers

The “eierlegende Wollmilchsau”? Browsing through job postings can be a bit overwhelming. It seems like some employers are looking for the “all-singing, all-dancing” absolutely perfect overachiever (or, as this absolutely lovely German idiom puts it so succinctly, the eierlegende Wollmilchsau – egg-laying wool-milk-pig – but are they really? When you look a little closer, certain…

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Job Market Survey: A Career Orientation Tool

150 150 speakinterculture: careers

How much do you know about the job market? Not clear on what kind of jobs are out there in your field? Unsure about grad school? What about that PhD? The Job Market Survey can be a very helpful tool when making choices, deciding where to focus in your studies, and in helping you be…

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Career Journaling: Internship Reflection Questions

150 150 speakinterculture: careers

Why Career Journaling? Understanding what you enjoy about work – and knowing which specific aspects of work that drain or frustrate you – can be very helpful in guiding you to make career decisions, support you in interviews and in performance reviews, and generally give you confidence in the workplace. Your internship is a great…

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Internships (in the Age of Corona)

150 150 speakinterculture: careers

Internships in the Age of Corona Finding a great internship is a challenge in “normal” times. There’s so much to think about. What company is the best fit for me? Where do I want to go? What do I hope to learn or achieve? In the current pandemic, it can be an even greater challenge.…

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