Reply to: Finding Contract jobs in Germany

[Eirikur]

Kids were also born in Germany, so....

Do they have German citizenship, being born in a country in itself doesn't mean anything. Even if they have German citizen ship, you don't so that still makes it difficult for you to move permanently (and have the right to work) to Germany (of course after brexit and depending on what the end results of the negotiations are going to be)

[maxm]

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

Thanks for the links, I will look into this.

[maxm]

No it isn't

Kids were also born in Germany, so....

[VectraMan]

I am in Sweden right now (just across the bridge from Denmark). Both work talk and office chit chat is in English.

On the flip side if you want to learn the language, working somewhere where they only speak English isn't going to help.

Last week I sent off my c.v. for a job in Germany that said English speaking, but it was a German agent. They emailed me back with a form to fill out (grrrr) and said "please subscribe to the so-called Einwilligungserklärung. That means "informed constent" but how am I meant to subscribe to it? WTF?

Fortunately I understood the German version of the email text which said "Bitte unterschreiben Sie die Einwilligungserklärung". "Unterschreiben" means sign, so sign the declaration. Obviously they'd mistranslated it: unter - sub. Think of U-boats. Makes sense.

Having done that they've now asked me to rewrite my c.v. in German. I posted here about this a while back, and a few people had said they'd got by with an English version and I'd been told elsewhere that unless you were good at German you should stick to English.

The moral of the story is even professional Germans aren't as good at English as people think.

[m0n1k3r]

Was similar for me in Denmark, all work talk was in English, office chit chat all in Danish, made one feel a bit isolated.

I am in Sweden right now (just across the bridge from Denmark). Both work talk and office chit chat is in English.

[Eirikur]

They won't chuck him out as she can work to support them both.

The problem is she will need a job with an income above a certain limit before husband (and children if they only have British citizenship) is allowed to stay permanently. After Brexit he will be treated the same as any other non EU citizen

[Bee]

They won't chuck him out as she can work to support them both.

But doesn't help him to find a job. Imagine the interview make me laugh.

[SueEllen]

No it isn't

They won't chuck him out as she can work to support them both.

[Bee]

The first step it's to learn German. Pray that you will not have Germans complaining about your broken German like the British complaining with immigrants with broken English....and a German language test before entering the country.

Good luck

[northernladuk]

No it isn't

It is if he likes hirsute ladies.

[Eirikur]

He has a German wife so has some advantage there.

No it isn't

[stek]

Where as on a CUK meet we'll trash talk you in English while you are sitting there

I'm learning Gaelic now off the bus stop announcements!

Fairview/Ffioneronirachaic na conneribhidhiac....

My favourite is;

Desmesne/An demaine

And I laugh and go 'No, you da man' and laugh again as I go 'I've no idea why that's funny...'

Peep Show reference, Jez to French Film living bird he was trying to knock-off...

[northernladuk]

Was similar for me in Denmark, all work talk was in English, office chit chat all in Danish, made one feel a bit isolated.

Where as on a CUK meet we'll trash talk you in English while you are sitting there

[stek]

I am just back from Germany where I worked as a permie for one of the big consultancies. I don't speak German and I found it to be an obstacle when I tried to get assigned on projects. I'd say 80% of the clients wanted to have someone speaking German. Obviously it depends on the role, PMs are expected to speak German, Architects can get away with not speaking it. Having said this there were many clients that didn't require German language knowledge at all.

Was similar for me in Denmark, all work talk was in English, office chit chat all in Danish, made one feel a bit isolated.

[miron]

I am just back from Germany where I worked as a permie for one of the big consultancies. I don't speak German and I found it to be an obstacle when I tried to get assigned on projects. I'd say 80% of the clients wanted to have someone speaking German. Obviously it depends on the role, PMs are expected to speak German, Architects can get away with not speaking it. Having said this there were many clients that didn't require German language knowledge at all.