How to apply successfully in

SaarLorLux-Land and Europe

Achim Dürschmid

EURES Adviser

Agentur für Arbeit Saarland

21/10/2011

Index • EURES

• Labour markets Saar(LorLux)-Land and Europe

• Job offers and employers

• „European“ application

• Jobsearch in Saarland / Germany / Europe

• Bureaucracy

• Working in a crossborder region

• Personal advice

Europe: labour mobility in 27 + 3 countries (Norw., Icel., CH)

!

EURES = European Employment Service: 850 advisers

Help – advice - information?

• job search + application for jobseekers

• crossborder recruitment for employers

• Orientation concerning language and training courses

• Job portals / job fairs

Find your EURES adviser in a foreign country

• www.eures.europa.eu

• homepage » EURES ADVISERS

» CHOOSE COUNTRY

» LANGUAGE SKILLS

contact them!

(e-Mail, phone, face-to-face)

+ additional contact to your national placement center, f.i.

www.ba-auslandsvermittlung.de, Pole Emploi International etc.

Find jobs all over Europe

• www.eures.europa.eu

• Homepage

» Jobseekers

» Search for a job

» define profession + country

» contact employers, send a application

EURES-T in SaarLorLux: crossborder network

• Job market Europe

EURES-T

Agentur für Arbeit Saarbrücken

Achim Dürschmid

Arbeitsmarkt Großregion:

Unemployment

Rates in the EU

• Unemployment

Rate

Changes

• Unemployment

Rates

Youth

Employment rate changes by skill levels

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=89&newsId=1080&furtherNews=yes

Average salaries EU

Information about working in the

EU countries

• www.eures.europa.eu

• www.ba-auslandsvermittlung.de

• www.europa.eu …

placement programms…

Ziel Ausreisezeitraum Bewerbungsschluss

Wales 15.01.2012 – 25.02.2012 28.10.2011

London 19.02.2012 – 31.03.2012 28.10.2011

Spanien 05.02.2012 – 31.03.2012 31.10.2011

Spanien 18.03.2012 – 12.05.2012 31.10.2011

… exportation of unemployment pay in another EU

country:

• via „PD U 2“ / ex „E 303“

• Job market Greater Region / SaarLorLux-

Land

Arbeitslosigkeit in der Großregion

Stand: Arbeitsverwaltungen der Großregion, August 2011

9,2 %

5,1 % 5,6 %

6,7 %

9,8 %

9,6 %

Unemployment Rates in the Greater Region

11,7 %

Unemployment / Saarland

Crossborder worker flows in Saar-Lor-Lux

Quelle: Statistische Ämter der Großregion,

Stand: 2010

Employment poles in the Greater Region

Anteil der Regionen an der

Gesamtbevölkerung der Großregion (Quelle: Interregionale Arbeitsmarktbeobachtungsstelle,

Stand: 2009)

International employers in the Saar region

Universities as employers

• University homepages, z.B.: http://www.uni-gr.eu

then: chose individual universities

• Portals of the national jobcentres z.B. www.arbeitsagentur.de > Jobbörse

• EURES portal www.eures.europa.eu

• Joint Research Center:

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/

Spin Off Enterprises / Saarland

• IT Park Saar: http://www.itparksaarland.de/

• Science Park: http://www.science-park-saar.de/

• Starter Centrum: http://www.uni-saarland.de/info/wirtschaft/kontaktstelle-

fuer-wissens-und-technologietransfer/existenzgruendung/starterzentrum.html

• Saarterrassen: www.saarterrassen.de

• Saarland empowering nano: http://www.inm-

gmbh.de/de/technologien/netzwerke/saarland-empowering-nano/

Labour market for graduates in Germany

Quelle: Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Stand: 31. Dezember 2009

Job opportunities for natural scientists

Demografic development in the Greater Region

Quelle: IBA, Stand: April 2009

Demografic development in Luxemburg

Einwohner

Beschäftigte

einheimische Arbeitskräfte

Grenzgänger

Arbeitskräftebedarf höher als Einwohnerzahl

mehr Grenzgänger als einheimische Arbeitskräfte

• Application – CVs – application strategy…

GRATIS

comfortable

60 %

2. via public

employment

services

arbeitsagentur.de

eures

GRATIS

comfortable

20 %

3. advertisements

In newspapers

and job portals

expensive

complex

5-10 %

4. placement agencies

temporay work,

headhunters

expensive

comfortable

5-10 %

1. intern

via collegues

and internal

contacts,

employers´

websites

5. Job Fairs /

fairs

Strategy: How do employers recruit graduates?

5-10 %

individual application strategy

branch catalogues

„Vitamine B“

online networks

lobbies

„conections“

associations

CV + job offers online on arbeitsagentur.de,

pole-emploi.fr

eures.eu

= public employment services

CV + job offers in newspapers + online

monster.lu, moovijob.com etc.

placement offices

headhunters

temporary work agencies

job fairs, graduate fairs

crossborder-days

specific fairs

• www.arbeitsagentur.de

• = biggest german job portal with

academic job offers from Saar region /

Germany + Luxemburg + greater region

+ Europe!

Job portals online

Publish your CV online and find job offers:

• www.xing.de

• www.arbeitsagentur.de

• www.eures.europa.eu

• www.moovijob.com

• www.monster.lu

• specific portals as www.jobvektor.de for scientists

• www.academics.de for graduates

• overview: www.arbeitsagentur.de/nn_27836/zentraler-

Content/A04-Vermittlung/A042-

Vermittlung/Allgemein/Berufs-und-branchenspezifische-

Working for the EU?

• European council: http://www.coe-

recruitment.com/index.aspx

• chemists, physicists, biologists: Details on

http://www.coe-recruitment.com/index.aspx

• graduates: joint research center of the EU:

www.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jobs

• EU announcements:

www.epso.europa.eu

Internship at the EU institutions:

• beginning october: 31st of January

• beginning march: 1st of September (previous year)

• further information:

• www.ec.europa.eu/stages

labour market in the greater region:

• www.moovijob.com/saarbruecken

• www.moovijob.com/trier

• etc. for different cities / regions

Advertisements in the regional newspapers

• Saarbrücker Zeitung : www.saarbruecker-

zeitung.stellenanzeigen.de

• Trierischer Volksfreund (saturday): + for Luxemburg

• Luxemburger Wort (saturday / monday in Saarbrücken): labour market Lux. – wort.lu, jobsearch.lu

• Republicain Lorrain : East France + DNA / Alsace

Temporary work + placement agencies

Keywords:

• Interim

• Personalberatung

• Zeitarbeit

in the yellow pages of the greater region

www.yellow.lu

www.gelbeseiten

www.pagesjaunes.fr

…

Job consultants for graduates:

• W+ST Personalberatung: www.w-st-pb.de

• Zapp Consulting: www.zapp-consulting.de

• Pillong Ebert – Rosbach: www.per-sb.de

• and others

Branch lists / sectorial catalogues

• IHK-Firmenregister:

www.saarland.ihk.de ,

www.saarlorlux.biz

• Gelbe Seiten / Handelsregister:

• www.kompass.lu , www.fedil.lu

www.yellow.lu , www.pagesjaunes.fr

• Company Boulevard at www.monster.lu

Job fairs:

• Moovijob in Luxemburg and France: www.moovijob.com

• Specific fairs as www.hannovermesse.de, www.cebit.com etc.

• Job fairs of the public employment services:

www.moovijob.com/saarbruecken , www.arbeitsagentur.de

• Graduate fairs in Saarbrücken, Köln, Frankfurt etc.

• Career Days at the different universities, f.i. 16 / nov. 2011

campus Saarbrücken

• How to apply in Europe / in an

international labour market?

Requirements

• language skills

• diploma / recognition

• mobility

• interesting profiles matching

the labour market´s demand

• medical / educational / social diploma need a recognition!

f.i. in Luxemburg: www.men.public.lu

• f.i. in the Saar region:

> Kultusministerium

> chambers

> Landesamt für Soziales, Gesundheit und

Verbraucherschutz

• globally: www.anabin.de or www.enic-

naric.net

Diploma recognition?

creating a german CV portfolio is..

• a real science!

CV preparation

in our BiZ!

info center

http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/

oder googeln: europass cv

In Europe and for recognition authorities:

Example:

europass CV

Better:

short profile in

target language:

source: www.pole-emploi.fr

Or Google:

„Exemples de C.V.

et quelques CONSEILS “

Best practices..

…a smart cover letter:

boost your

language skills!

• smart solutions at

• Universities, language

centers, clubs, online..

12/10/2011

More personal advice:

• Headhunters and consulting agencies

• Language schools

look at www.arbeitsagentur.de > Kursnet + Lernbörse

• job coaches

• good guidebooks („Bewerben für Dummies“ etc.)

• online at www.monster.de, www.focus.de etc.

• Career Services & international offices at the universities

Conclusion:

• The higher the internationality of

your profile, the better your job

opportunities in a crossborder labour

market…

• Excursus:

Burocratical frontiers for crossborder

workers

Grenzgänger sind…

„…Arbeitnehmer und Selbstständige, die ihre Berufstätigkeit in einem Mitgliedstaat der EU ausüben und in einem anderen Mitgliedstaat wohnen, in den sie in der Regel täglich, mindestens aber einmal wöchentlich zurückkehren.“

EWG-Verordnung 1408/71

(bzgl. Sozialversicherungsrecht)

Crossborder topics: overview & classification

Tax Law

„183 Days“ or

crossborder

zone?

Social Security

- health insurance

- pension insurance

- unemployment

ensurance

Labour Law

- contract

- denouncement

Foreign Law

- work permit

- residence title

Crossborder Guidebooks:

• www.frontalierslorraine.eu

• http://www.frontalierslorraine.eu/site/de_sa

laries_choix_profil.php

• = Information to solve bureaucratic

obstacles!

12/10/2011

More partners of the EURES network:

• Pension insurance: DRV / Caisse de Retraite

• Health insurance: AOK e.a. / CPAM

• Tax office: Finanzamt / Centre d´impots,

Grenzgänger-Finanzamt Luxemburg

• Labour Law / contract law: DGB /

Arbeitskammer / OGBL + LCGB / = trade unions

• Further information & advice

.. your EURES adviser

www.arbeitsagentur.de/saarbruecken > Bürger >

Arbeiten in der Grenzregion

EURES-Ratgeber zum Mitnehmen /

Herunterladen:

french:

http://www.frontalierslorraine.eu/site/pu

blications_detail.php?id_publication=82

&a=une

german:

www.arbeitsagentur.de/saarbruecken

> Bürger > Arbeiten in der Grenzregion

… our guidebooks:

.. graduate services of your campus jobcenter

Interested to work in Germany?

• www.arbeitsagentur.de > Jobbörse

1.: register with your CV online

2.: register as jobseeker

3.: get an appointment at our graduate

service in your local jobcenter!

Vielen Dank für

Ihre

Aufmerksamkeit –

Fragen?