Finding Contract jobs in Germany

[maxm]

Hi All,

I live in London with family, my wife is from Germany and at some point we will be moving to Germany, no plans to move anytime soon. No, I don't speak German.

I am currently contracting in UK, I have been contracting for the past two years, I was permie before that, almost 10 years. I would like to contract in Germany to get some experience in that market but I don't know where to start. What sites to look at? Any agencies to register with. I have created a profile on xing.com so far that about it.

I am in IT, I am Solution Architect in my current role now. I do a lot of infrastructure stuff, mainly virtualisation and cloud.

I would appreciate any help and directions.


Thanks

[northernladuk]

There is a sticky at the top of this very thread that covers who to inform which you will probably need to read and may have some other good info for you.

There might be some threads on the same topic here as well...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ge...hrome&ie=UTF-8

[VectraMan]

From my experience of looking the last few months, the problem tends to be is that whilst there are quite a few jobs, and they all want people with English, they tend to also say "sehr gute Deutschkentnisse", and I feel with my B1 to getting there slowly towards B2 level German there's not much point. Maybe in another year or so I'll be good enough.

There are English speaking companies. I found quite a few leads from jobsincologne.com (there's jobsinberlin, etc. etc., but they all have the same jobs for the whole country).

But I'm in the code monkey market so may be different.

Veilleicht solltest du mit dem Deutschlernen anfangen?

[fatJock]

Company I was perm with (Kuehne + Nagel) often have vacancies and their universal language is English.

Is it worth hooking up a perm role, with a similar multinational, learning the language whilst immersed in the country and then making the switch to contracting?

[BlasterBates]

My advice would be to check out jobserve and apply for the contracts advertised in English.

[maxm]

Company I was perm with (Kuehne + Nagel) often have vacancies and their universal language is English.

Is it worth hooking up a perm role, with a similar multinational, learning the language whilst immersed in the country and then making the switch to contracting?

Perm role is a big commitment, I would prefer contract engagement. But in the long term, it will be a case of taking perm job, move and settle and then switch to contracting.

[maxm]

There is a sticky at the top of this very thread that covers who to inform which you will probably need to read and may have some other good info for you.

There might be some threads on the same topic here as well...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ge...hrome&ie=UTF-8

Are you always teaching people how to use Google search?

Thanks, the search results is quite interesting and it is very active topic indeed.

[fatJock]

Perm role is a big commitment, I would prefer contract engagement. But in the long term, it will be a case of taking perm job, move and settle and then switch to contracting.

Like I said, might be better long term. Learn the language whilst immersed but on the perm gravy train.

[darmstadt]

Contracting is getting harder here due to ANÜ/AÜG. Where I currently contract they let around 80 go when the law came in:

https://www.gulp.de/knowledge-base/1...pril-2017.html

Das neue Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz (AÜG) 2017 | Kanzlei Hasselbach

[Eirikur]

no plans to move anytime soon.

Better start thinking about it, after Brexit it may be a lot more difficult