New members of the Germany forum, introduce yourselves here - 2023

Nice thread  I impress this thread

Hello Mastin,

Welcome on board !

Feel free to share a few words on yourself and your project. We will be glad to know a bit more about you.

All the best

Bhavna

My project is called Driver Service. and What is your project?

@Bhavna

thanks bhavna

Hello all.

I am Tamer from Egypt working as digital marketing specialist at AGROMAX company.

This is a new challenge for me to marketing to other countries, I am working on this project now to export the company's products ( fresh and frozen Fruits and Vegetables).

I am looking to travel to Germany to meet clients face to face in near future, but now I am looking to a partner work with a commission for each deal.

Kindly share your ideas about this reply.

Thanks.

Irish guy, semi-retired. Just moved to Berlin.

Hello Stephen,

Welcome to expat.com!

How are you finding Berlin so far?

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on the Germany forum

Cheers,

Yoginee

Expat.com team

Hi there. I’ve been living in Berlin now for 3 years. Started my self employed business of me when I got here. Until recently I’ve not had much dealing with the hmrc back in the uk as I’ve had the German system to get used to.  Dual taxation and how to register for it and set the whole thing up is my next project.

i feel I am at the bottom of a very steep hill with many paths. Hopefully I can navigate it without too much damage along the way.

best

stevie

@Julien

I'm Debrah. I just moved to Hungary but want to live in Germany. How do I get an English speaking job in Germany?

Thank you

@Debrah Light Unless you are in a specific niche with a lack of suitable personnel among German speakers (e.g. in IT and some other High-Teck areas), it is highly unlikely that you find an English-speaking job in Germany.

After all, we speak German here!

Hi Debrah,

Just Googling "English speaking jobs Germany" could be useful.

If you're looking for a job teaching English, there are many ways you can go about it (I didn't speak a word of German before I moved here and have been living here for more than 4 years now, teaching English as a freelancer).

But, speaking from personal experience, it would greatly benefit you if you learn some German before you come as I've come across a lot of Germans who have no time for people here who don't speak German.

Hello all,

I have moved to Germany in February 2023.

I am a DevOps/Cloud Engineer who is on a Job Seeker Visa as of now and goals to convert it into a EU Blue Card. I have a 5 years of experience in my profession. Since I have just moved I am also looking for a house and its a real headache I swear.

Apart from this, I love dance, socialising and partying. I am fluent with English, Hindi and Gujarati and I know some basic level of German.

Also, I love trekking, travelling and pets, so if you hit any of the zone lets catch up for some food!

Cheers!

Any leads or help with the job/house would be really great.

Feel free to send me a Hi for casual meet and greet!

I guess thats too much for now so, Shaadap-ing up

Your Truly,

Anuj

The whole point of a job seeker visa is that one is allowed to start working right away. The work visa is de facto pre-approved. To qualify for the blue card is another matter; but not sure why it would be a problem since one is already allowed to work. But it only strengthens my observation that a JSV is rarely the optimal way to find a job. One can better do it online these days without the added cost and effort.

But a couple of things. One might find a decent job but it might not meet the requirement to get a blue card, which isn’t a necessity anyway. Seems everyone from India has an obsession about a blue card.

And I don’t know how it fits for one to rent a place long term until they know where and if they have a job. In Germany cities the vast majority of people live in apartments not houses. Few are available in an already tight housing market and most would be very costly.

Hello,

I'm new to Frankfurt and I would like to meet people with interest to play badminton in weekdays.

Any pointers will help.

Sabari

Hello,
I'm new to Frankfurt and I would like to meet people with interest to play badminton in weekdays.

Any pointers will help.

Sabari
-@Sabari Balagopal

nice to meet you

Hello everyone,

Welcome on board !

@ Sabari Balagopal, feel free to drop an advert in the Frankfurt classifieds under the Sport partners section. We will share your ad in our newsletter.

Regards

Bhavna

@Julien hello sir I m chef Indian curry chef I want job in Germany plz contact me

Hi everyone!

My name is Ann, I'm Filipina and was living in Egypt for more than 4 years, as my company assigned me to manage the new site there. I was sent back here to the Philippines and currently working as a Senior Operations Manager, however, our company is having a huge change in management and I feel that the job is not stable anymore, I'm looking for an English job in Europe or mainly in Germany. I'm willing to pay the expenses of my visa process if it is needed, just need your help to find any job that will help me to build my dreams of working abroad specifically in Europe.

Here's my contact information

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Appreciate your help.

Best Regards,

Ann

@rupchandbaroli123 Julien is the internationalsite owner and lives in Mauritius. He cannot help you with jobs in Germany - and neither can I: You have to apply at suitable employers yourself and convince the that you are the right person to hire!

(Hint: The most important aspect are you language skills. How good is your German?)

@kateann040995 Please do not post personal contact details on the open forum - it can be abused and is thus forbidden by the forum rules.

Your post does not specify your skills and experience. In case you have the right ones, you have good job chances - of course provided you speak German well.

In case you don't speak German, you are automatically excluded from all roles that involve dealing with customers, partners, suppliers or other team members. This would limit your job chances to very few small niches - outside of management.

@Julien Hi. Mark here, I've lived in Germany for a little over 12 months, it’s been a mixed bag of experiences, some good, some not so good, but I’m not giving up on my integration in to the culture.

Thank you

@Julien hello sir l'am from India how can l gets jobs for here?

@SUNITA RANI Julien is the international site owner and lives in Mauritius, soI doubt he can help you.

But there is a lot of good advice about job search on this forum, which I encourage you to read and follow.

@mexico54 Julien is the site owner and resides in Mauritius (didn't you read the post before yours?).

If you want to employ somebody in USA, you better post your job ad on relevant USA sites - with mentioning the pre-conditions that the applicant must be German.

If you want to employ somebody in Germany (and have a registered company here to do that), then post it on German jobs sites - the most frequented being Stepstone (but there are others,too), or contact the federal employment buero's ("Arbeitsamt") job placement service.

If you have no Germany-registered company, things will get more complicated. Basically,what you then need is a freelancer ("Freiberufler") willing to work on your project from Germany. There are also sites to match freelancers with projects, e.g. freelance.de and many other (search Google!).

@Julien Hello, I'm an American who has lived in several countries, including India, Brasil, Indonesia, and the Philippines. I hope I don't come off as an idiot unable to find the right forum. In this particular case - Germany - I'm not looking to reside but rather find a German Engineer who's a bit quirky, for a project in Southwest New Mexico (U.S.A.). The project involves developing/building an 'automated' proof of concept plot (of land - approx. 3 acres) for organic cotton. This is a small project. The area is quite remote and lodging/entertainment would be primitive. Compensation would need to be negotiated.
Kindly direct me to where I might post this Help Wanted notice in Germany. German Engineers are the best, I witnessed them doing remarkable work on a project in the Philippines.

FYI, I tried the ole' Craigslist, but for whatever reason, the system would not allow me to successfully post.

Thanks so much!

Glenn
-@mexico54

None of this makes sense. Trying to recruite a German person to work in the US because of a streotype that German engineeers are the best is just nonsensical. Sounds like an obvious scam/spam.

Hello everyone and welcome on board !

@ Mexico54,

Please send us an email : https://www.expat.com/en/contact.html

We will guide you through the steps to creating your advert.

Thanks in advance

Bhavna

Greetings from New Zealand!

I am half Ukrainian and half German (who knows what other mix was there is my family! )

I am moving to Germany with my daughter in June 2023. I am not entirely new to Germany, because I lived there for seven years 26 years ago. But my daughter has never been to Germany before; she is a Kiwi. I know very little about German schools. And also, many things have changed.... Luckily I speak German fluently

"Expat.com" seems to have a lot of useful information. I am looking forward to sharing my experience and to listening to your advice!

Cheers,

William

@Bhavna

Hello mam,

Iam Neeraj kumar from India, iam planning for job in the Germany.

But firstly I would like to learn German language, so how you and this forum can help me to learn this language.

Please suggest me.

@Bhavna
Hello mam,

Iam Neeraj kumar from India, iam planning for job in the Germany.
But firstly I would like to learn German language, so how you and this forum can help me to learn this language.
Please suggest me.
-@Neeraj Kumar6

Unless you have some highly demanded skills you will have no chance to get a job and work visa. One should realistically look at the situation by checking out  the main job websites in Germany where one will get an overview of jobs available to non-EU persons.

To learn German you should go to a local language school. You need to do this at home before applying for jobs. Nobody here can assist you in that. Hopefully you would get to higher level with your German than your English which looks to fall well short of what a professional person in Germany would be expected to know.

@Neeraj Kumar6 Bhavna is one of the international site's administrators and, situated in Mauritius, is probably not able to help you.

To learn German, you should attend a language class! The classes at Goethe Institut (in India also called Max Müller Bhavan) are generally good - plus Goethe also administers the official classification tests.

You should reach B1 or better B2 level before you start applying for jobs in Germany, to maximise your chances!

@WilliamNZ There were some recent discussions about German schools and special classes ("Förderklasse") they offer to bring foreign kids up to the required level for normal classes. Please read those and add questions in the related threads!

@Julien

Hi, I'm an Irishman living in Germany for almost all the time since early 1978, with just a brief 19 months back in Dublin in 1999 and 2000. Most of the time I've lived in Hamburg, but also spent 7 years living on the Swabian Alb, a region near Reutlingen. Since I qualified as an export salesman I worked much in business development, customer akquisition, sales and have extensive experience in translation work. Now that I have retired officially I'd like to establish a little import-export business with Kenya. So contacts with practical knowledge & experience of life in that country would be highly interesting to meet for an interexchange of tips.

Looking forward to meeting.

@beppi

Excellent advice. Hope it is noticed by all. Nobody likes being abused in any sense of the term.

@Julien Thank You very much for the Welcome.

I am from Namibia..still living in Namibia

But i have plans to move to Germany on Temporary basis which can also end in permanent stay ,i will love that.

I want to apply for work Visa to go work there for few years to better my situation which has worsen since COVID hit  us. Tofind a decent job its so hard so I am open for ideas.

Currently I am busy learning German from Youtube but needs a Tutor who is based in Swakopmund for Private classes.

Anybody who can offer private classes with reasonable price will be appreciated

I thank you

Regards

Joyce

Hello Joyce welcome on board !

I would recommend that you read the Living in Germany guide for expats to gather as much information as possible and open a new topic on the Germany forum by providing enough details on your qualifications and profession so that members can share their insights with you on job opportunities.

All the best

Bhavna

@Julien Thank You very much for the Welcome.
I am from Namibia..still living in Namibia
But i have plans to move to Germany on Temporary basis which can also end in permanent stay ,i will love that.
I want to apply for work Visa to go work there for few years to better my situation which has worsen since COVID hit us. Tofind a decent job its so hard so I am open for ideas.
Currently I am busy learning German from Youtube but needs a Tutor who is based in Swakopmund for Private classes.
Anybody who can offer private classes with reasonable price will be appreciated
I thank you
Regards
Joyce
-@xoagujoy

One needs to know what their own skills and interests are and should see if this correlates to any likely work opportunities. One has to line up a job and then the work visa, not the other way around. And people from outside of the EU will have to have highly demanded skills that are locally in short supply to have a chance to find a company willing to recruit one to Germany. It has an extra cost and risk involved. And language skills ae indeed a big factor. One will need a at least a B1 if not B2, sometime even C1 level to get most professional jobs. Good English is often expected in addition, rather than as an alternative.

Hello greetings

Welcome Jamaican King,

How can we help you ?

Regards

Bhavna