German for the workplace with practical testing and individual job coaching

Our "German for the Workplace" program aims to offer people with a migration background the opportunity to improve their subject-specific German language skills and thereby increase their chances of integration into the German labor market through targeted language training in a professional context.

This course supports participants in
- improving language skills for professional life
- understanding job-specific texts
- expanding written language comprehension (writing and answering emails and letters if necessary)

Practical testing:
Often, just one opportunity to demonstrate one's capabilities through a work placement is enough. Intensive guidance and support can help identify and address problems early on, or address language barriers in a targeted manner. Work placement offers the opportunity to showcase one's work performance and professional interests and to "promote" oneself.

Job coaching:
Together, we identify individual strengths and professional interests. If necessary, we develop new solution strategies and initiate the necessary processes to acquire suitable job opportunities.

Target group

This offer is aimed at those entitled to benefits under SGB II/ and SGB III/ with a migration and/or refugee background.

Goals

The program aims to improve professional German language skills and gradually introduce students to the job market. The long-term goal is the sustainable integration of people with a migration background.

Content & Services

Module 1:

Location analysis

• Recording professional and personal career
• Competence assessment
• Strengths and weaknesses analysis
• Self-assessment
• Recording initial professional skills/abilities

Regional and supra-regional labor market

• Sector-specific and company-specific situation on the labor market
• Forecast labor market development
• Current earning opportunities
• Requirements for employees (qualifications)
• Further training opportunities
• Overview of realistic and possible job profiles and their content (requirements and working conditions)
• BERUFENET
• Differences in training and qualifications compared to professions in the home country
• Recognition of foreign professional qualifications
• Norms and values in everyday working life
• Work locations and working hours
• Types of contracts in Germany

Application management

• Creating meaningful application documents
• Working with the BA job exchange
• Presentation of different application forms
• Communication training – job interviews
• Verbal vs. nonverbal communication
• Preparing for a job interview

Module 2:

Vocational German lessons

• Work-specific vocabulary and language skills
• Language training
• Independent communication and handling of typical work situations
• IT skills
• Understanding work orders and instructions
• Employee interviews
• Talking to your supervisor about a problem at work
• Dealing with conflict situations
• Quality management

Operational testing including support

Module 3:

Job coaching and placement

• Career planning
• Matching
• Development of career alternatives
• Integration-oriented support
• Targeted communication training
• Processing of placement proposals from the beneficiaries
• Placement in training or employment

Duration & Course

Module 1: 5.6 weeks of 30 teaching units

Module 2: 10.4 weeks of 30 teaching units + 6 weeks internship

Module 3: 22 weeks of 2 teaching units

Total duration 22 weeks

Financial support

Funding is possible through an activation and integration voucher (AVGS)