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Greencards for IT Professionals
Where can I find IT Job offers?
I found an offer, now what should I do?
What will it cost me?
The critical shortage of IT-specialists is one
of the main obstacles to economic growth in
Germany. Thousands of job openings in the
IT-sector and related fields cannot be filled.
This situation moved the German companies
and government leaders to agree to
work together to create new training programs, internships and
new jobs in this promising sector. The
Federal Republic of Germany aims to play an
active role in the international competition for the world’s top
IT-specialists. They call it the
"Greencard Program". And for foreign IT-specialists,
this means job opportunities.
On March 13, 2000, the German government and the Information
and Communications-Industry agreed on an IT-specialists
Temporary Relief Program. The core elements of this program
are to grant top foreign IT-specialists access to the job
market in Germany, while at the same time launching a major
vocational and continuing education initiative for German employees
and young people. To make it easier for IT-specialists
from non-EU-countries to start work in Germany, the German
government has prepared legal changes which went
into effect in early August, 2000.
This will benefit everyone: the German economy can quickly
satisfy its short-term personnel needs in the IT sector. Foreign
employees can find challenging, well-paid jobs and have the
experience of living in another lovely country and getting to
know its vibrant culture. And the German population as a
whole benefits too, because this initiative will create new jobs
and train more IT-specialists here in Germany.
Where can I find IT Job offers?
German companies in need of IT workers from abroad file their
job offers at the zentrale Arbeitsvermittlungsstelle des
Arbeitsamtes (central employment agency of the federal labor department).
The federal labor department has a website from where you can go to
the special site for IT Job offers. But for those of you in hurry,
you can go directly to that site and search for jobs via this address:
http://195.185.214.164/gc/indexe.html
You can also register at this site
as an applicant (this is of course the passive way of job hunting). We
suggest that you act actively. After you found the "right job and the right employer"
for you, contact the company diretcly via email.
I found a job offer, now what should I do?
There is an official information brochure which will guide you
step-by-step through the entire application process. We highly
recommend that you download this brochure, read it, and
follow the instructions carefully. Download this brochure now:
a987engl.pdf. It is filed in PDF
format and you need the Acrobat Reader program to open and read it.
What will it cost me?
The German government says no third parties are allowed to facilitate
for a job placement and ask money for it. Only the official government
departments and agencies are allowed to facilitate for job placements and
they do this for free. So, BEWARE of third parties asking for money for
their "services".
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