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Job searching websites in Germany for 2024- Used by HR's in Germany Jobs in Germany
Jan 26, 2024
In this video I am going to show what are the different websites you can use to find a job in Germany in 2024.
I also use these websites to find candidates as an HR lead responsible for hiring candidates in Germany and all across Europe.
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Now, LinkedIn is heavily used in Germany. So yes, please apply for jobs on LinkedIn
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but there are also different other websites and there are also two very common and very
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effective channels that you can use to find a job in Germany, which I'm going to tell
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you at the end of this video. So please make sure you stay tuned until the end of the video
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Welcome to my channel. And today we are going to discuss about top websites that you can
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use to find a job in Germany in 2024. Now, these are certain websites that even I used
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to hire candidates for various domains. We are going to talk about some common websites
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and also different ways that you can use in these common websites and also some uncommon
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websites that you can use to find a right job. I hope this session is going to be very
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helpful for you in case if you're finding a job in Germany from your home country or
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from within Germany itself. Also, during this entire session, I'm going to share a lot of
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tips and tricks with you as an HR, what we actually look for in a candidate, which is
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really going to help you in your application process. So stay tuned until the end of the
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session, and I hope this helps you find a right job in Germany. Thank you
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So of course, the most common website that is famous in Germany to apply for the jobs
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is LinkedIn, no doubt about it. So definitely you should first go to LinkedIn and try to
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find a job for yourself. Now I'll show you what are the different ways that you can find
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a job from LinkedIn. So for example, in this case, we are going to take a job of a software
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engineer. Now I'm going to, of course, mention the title and the country as Germany, and
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I'm going to find the list of the jobs and I can apply for the jobs. Now, one tip here
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is in case if the job is in German, but still I would say go ahead and apply for the job
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even if you don't know German language. You know, sometimes if your skill set is really
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good companies take an exception. And in case in the interview process, if you're showing
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that willingness that you will learn German in future and your technical skills are very
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strong, then companies will take that exception. Some companies do. So take that risk and go
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ahead and apply for the jobs, even if they are mentioned in German. But in this case
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it is clearly mentioned German is a plus. So please go ahead and apply for this job
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in case if you're looking for a senior software engineer. Now, what happens in LinkedIn is
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once you find a job with the title, with the country name, you get this list of jobs. Now
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I see 24,000 results here. So those are the list of jobs that I'm getting here. But what
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you can also do is you can also try to find a job from small cities. Go to Google Maps
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and try to find the list of cities in Germany and then try to find a job in small cities
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So what happens is a lot of candidates apply for a job in major cities, say Berlin, Munich
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Frankfurt, and then these companies get a lot of applications. But in the small cities
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the number of applicants is less. So now when the competition is less, you have higher chances
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of getting a call. So always apply for small cities as well in case if this is the first
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time move in Germany and you're trying to find a job that will really help you get an
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interview call. Now, that is one tip. The next tip is you are searching for a software
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engineer, but don't just use that title. Try to use different titles because every
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company uses different titles and they have different hierarchy. So try to use and play
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with the titles and then find a job and you will get more and more job results. So for
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example, I can also put here as a full stack developer in Hamburg and then I can search
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a job. I can also put as software consultant, software architect. So there are different
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titles that you can use to find a job in Germany. So do that. And then the next thing
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is one thing that I want to tell you about LinkedIn is see LinkedIn will always first
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show the promoted jobs and LinkedIn, the companies as a company, as a recruiter, I have to buy
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the LinkedIn license to promote this job or to publish a job. So a lot of companies will
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definitely buy LinkedIn because that's the primary source here. And then it's published
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here. But there are also some companies who have published a job on LinkedIn, but they
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are not promoted. You know, they have the basic package or they don't have the promotion
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So those jobs you will never find on the first page. So always go on the multiple pages or
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always go on pages that are until the end. And that's where you're going to find more
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and more jobs in Germany. Now, LinkedIn is heavily used in Germany. So yes, please apply
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for jobs on LinkedIn. But there are also different other websites and there are also
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two very common and very effective channels that you can use to find a job in Germany
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which I'm going to tell you at the end of this video. So please make sure you stay tuned
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until the end of the video. Now, the next job, the next website that you can use is
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Zink. Zink is something very similar as LinkedIn. So basically Zink is LinkedIn for Germany
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So here again, you create your profile, say for example, I've created my profile and you
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go ahead and you connect with people. So very similar to what LinkedIn works, but only for
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Germany. Now here you can go to find jobs again, add a title, add the location and search
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the job. You will find a lot of jobs here. The trick is even if a job is in German, you
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translate it and you apply for the job and read through the job description. If they
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are looking for C1 German language and you know A1, maybe your chances are not high
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but if they're looking for B1, B2 and A1, I think there's still chances where you can
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convince them with your technical skills and learn German language. Now the third website
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that is very commonly used in Germany is stepstone.de. Don't worry, I'm going to paste all these
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links in the description below so you can use these links. Now when you go to stepstone.de
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you are going to find the jobs mainly in German. So as a recruiter, when I want to
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hire German speaking candidates, I go ahead and post my jobs on stepstone.de because that
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attracts a lot of local crowd. But that doesn't mean that you should still not go and search
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jobs here. Please go, please search the jobs. Even if the job is mentioned here in say German
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translate it and then go ahead and apply for the job. So this is another good website that
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you can use. Now the other three common websites that we have that are known worldwide is definitely
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Glassdoor, Indeed and Monster. So these are also three websites that you can use to find
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a job in Germany, which is pretty straightforward. So I'm not going to show a lot of details
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here. But what are the uncommon websites? Now there's another website that's called
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Berlin Startup Jobs. So the startup job here, you can find a lot of startups who published
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jobs in Berlin and new IT jobs, non IT jobs, mainly IT jobs. And you can go ahead and apply
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from here as well. Then there is another website in case if you're a fresher or an intern and
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entry level jobs you need, then there's another website called Absolventa. You can use this
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website to find entry level jobs. They also have experienced jobs, but those are less
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compared to other websites. So this is another website that you can use. Now what are different
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ways? So now I'm going to show you a very interesting factor. Now let's see if I google
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total number of IT companies here in Germany and I get this result, which is 94,000. Now see
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out of this 94,000, even if 10% of the companies are hiring right now, which will be around
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9,000. Now out of this 9,000, say at least 10% are in the same domain that you are looking for
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So that will be around 900. So basically you have 900 good companies to apply for in case if
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you're looking for IT jobs. Now these 900 companies, not all of these companies are going to
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be on LinkedIn, StepStone or different websites. Everybody has their own channel
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So basically what you need to do is you need to find the list of these companies and then you need
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to go on their career page and apply for the jobs on their career website directly
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So just to give you an example, what is the best way to do that? Say I will say startups in
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Berlin. So here when I go there, I get 121 best Berlin startups and then I also go to growth
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mentor and I get startups in Berlin in 2023. So all you need to do is you can process, all you
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need to do is you need to find those companies, go to their website, go to their career page and
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find a relevant job and apply for it. So like this, you can easily find list of so many companies
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who are hiring, which commonly people don't look for. They just go for LinkedIn, Indian
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WhatsApp and they just apply for those jobs. But you can find so many jobs which are not available
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in the market directly. And similarly here, see fastest growing startup in Berlin. Now this is
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just the list I'm finding in Berlin. Like this, you can find in every different city or you can
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also give a broader term, say list of startups in Germany or list of IT companies in Germany and
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find the names and then go to each of these websites and if you have a relevant job, go to
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their careers page. If you have a relevant job, then please apply for it. Every company will have
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a career page. Now this comes to a very important tip that I wanted to share. The very important
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tip is the one very good channel to send your application in Germany is through a career website
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of a company. It's very important for you to find, to go to the company's website and then apply for
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the job. So that's a very commonly known channel here in Germany. Now which is the second common
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channel here in Germany which can be very very beneficial for you as a candidate? It's referrals
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Referrals play a major role in your application process here in Germany. Everybody takes referrals
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very seriously and they make sure at least they are having the first call with the candidate
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So in case if you know somebody in the company in the same domain or in a different domain
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always contact them and try to send your application through referrals. In case if you
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do not know anybody, then that's exactly why you have LinkedIn 4. You go ahead and you do a company
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search. When you do a company search, find the people working in those companies and somebody
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who's working in your similar domain so that you can go ahead and ping them and message them that
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there is an opening, I would like to apply, can you help me with it, I'm interested to apply and
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say out of 10 messages that you send, even if 9 people are going to reject your message, at least
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one person is going to reply and if one person replies then your one application goes ahead
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So these are different websites that you can use and these are different methods that you can use
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or not many people are using. Definitely if you apply for jobs like this, you are going to get
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interview calls irrespective wherever you are applying from. Some rule of the application process
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for all the candidates. It's a process. Do not give up. Don't apply for two jobs in a day and then
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complain that I'm not getting any interview calls. That's not going to happen. In case if you want to
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apply seriously and want to find a job, then at least apply for 10 to 20 jobs in a day. That is
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minimum I'm talking about. So when you apply for say 20 jobs in a day, then in a week you will have
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close to 80 applications or 100 applications and that's when you are going to get results and
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that's where you're going to get interview calls. Now applying is one thing but what is very important
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is having a right resume and because your resume will only get shortlisted if it is right and
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if it is as per company norms and as per the job description. Now if you want to know how you create
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a right resume or find the right keywords, there is another detailed video that I have created that
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will help you identify the right keywords from the job description and that is going to drastically
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change your application process and you're going to get more interview calls. I'm very sure about it
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So please watch that video and in case if you want one-to-one consultation, you can always book my
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slot. There is a link in the description below and I'm more than happy to help you. I hire a lot
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of people here in Germany for various jobs so you can also follow me on LinkedIn where I keep posting
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different openings that keep coming in Germany and I hope this helps you find the right job
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In case if you want to know anything more about the job process in Germany, please mention in the
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comment section and I'm more than happy to help you. So thank you so much. Have a great day ahead
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and wish you all the best
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