German and career

Your path to success!

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Discover how German language skills can improve your career prospects. Our programmes help students, parents, teachers and political actors. Find out how knowledge of German can help you in your career.

Succes with German

Portrait

Zoë Gordon
In cultural mediation

Swiss cultural mediator Zoë Gordon explains how her German helped her get a job as an assistant at the Bern University of the Arts during her binational training in Berlin. The language helps her to mediate in multilingual situations in her everyday work.

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Agnieszka Mielczarek
In the EU institutions

For Agnieszka Mielczarek, learning German in historically influenced Poznan already began during her school years. During her Master's studies in Bonn, she was selected as a scholarship holder because of her German language skills and was able to gain her first professional experience during an internship at her future workplace in the European Commission, where she is working on the current topic of climate change.

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Pierre Mozgawa
During studies

Pierre Mozgawa is a French student enrolled in the European Law, Political Science and Economics programme at Sciences Po University Paris on the Franco-German campus in Nancy and is passionate about European issues. He is currently doing an internship at the French Embassy in Berlin. For him, it's clear: German will take me further!

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German at the workplace

Whether you want to work in a German-speaking country or need German language skills for your job - the varied range of exercises offered by "Deutsch am Arbeitsplatz" provides you with an insight into everyday working life in Germany at levels from A1 to B2.

Boost your career with German!

Online assessment test

We find out what prior knowledge you have and which course is best suited to you via an online assessment test.

Discover our German course offer

Open up new career opportunities with our German courses! Discover the benefits of learning German in a group and improve your language skills!
Take your career to the next level with us!

German exams in Belgium

Do you require evidence of your German language skills that is recognised all over the world? If so, then you’ve come to the right place! We offer German exams for all levels of ability, ranging from A1 to C2. In September, examinations will again be held at our institute.

Finding your dream job: Which one suits you?

For pupils

The StartNet project has developed many materials. Discover your career opportunities.

For school students
Self test

Get to know yourself and your skills better and find out which professions might suit you.

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For school students
Playfully find your profession

With the Play4Skills board game, you can playfully match your profile with the requirements of various professions.

Providing career guidance

for teachers

The ‘Skills for Life’ orientation package enables teachers to provide young people aged 13-14 with career guidance.

All learning modules at a glance

Discover the "Skills for Life Toolbox"! With practical materials and innovative methods, this toolbox supports teachers in optimally preparing young people for the world of work. Use the diverse modules to strengthen your students for their professional future.
Training for teachers

Need support in implementing the learning modules? The "Train4Skills" training course will help you to use the career guidance activities efficiently.
Skills for Life
Measuring impact

How effective were the activities? On this website you can evaluate the effectiveness of your interventions before and after using the "Skills for Life Toolbox".

Deutschstunde

Deutschstunde is the portal for teaching materials of German as a foreign language, in-service training and magazine Sprache. Contact with other teachers via local communities is just a few clicks away.

Preparing for Germany

The web portal for initial orientation in Germany

„Mein Weg nach Deutschland“
Migration and integration

Skilled worker qualification

German and career

Advantages for my career

Advantages for pupils

Advantages for German teachers

Impulses for political action

Succes with German

Zoë Gordon In cultural mediation

Agnieszka Mielczarek In the EU institutions

Pierre Mozgawa During studies

Boost your career with German!

Boost your career with German!

Finding your dream job: Which one suits you?

For school students Self test

For school students Playfully find your profession

Providing career guidance

Skills for Life Measuring impact

Preparing for Germany

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Zoë Gordon
In cultural mediation

Agnieszka Mielczarek
In the EU institutions

Pierre Mozgawa
During studies

For school students
Self test

For school students
Playfully find your profession

Skills for Life
Measuring impact