Welcome Center Pilots For Foreign Professionals

Major German cities have opened service centers that help foreigners when applying for a job in Germany. What they offer professionals from the CIS?

Solving the problem of shortage of staff, the large German cities have opened service centers that help foreigners when applying for a job in Germany. DW asked that it can offer specialists from the CIS.

Hamburg Welcome Center:

Every year in Hamburg from abroad come to 30,000 new residents. For many, the first address becomes the service center on the street Alter Wall, 11. It will assist in obtaining a visa or a "blue card" (the most popular services), will tell how to construct urban life, inform about the organizations involved in employment, as well as about where and how to look for housing and language courses.

The mooted around 20 thousand requests. "Applications from experts from Russia and Ukraine come regularly," - said the representative of the municipality DW Krumm Matthias (Matthias Krumm). 14 employees promise to respond within 72 hours. Personal meetings should be used for 10 days. Consultations are held in German and in English. Contact information - Center site:

www.welcome.hamburg.de

Service-Center für Internationale Fachkräfte in Munich:

And in the Bavarian capital recently from foreign experts has a pilot. Service Center at the building of the city administration (Ruppertstraße, 19) is currently using 7000 people. 700 of them - from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. According to the director Shtrotman Sabina (Sabine Strotmann), most issues relate to obtain or extend the visa and formalities associated with the relocation of the family.

The center provides only advice, working closely with the Office for Foreigners and the Agency for Labour. His staff - 12 employees who speak eight languages, including - in Russian and Ukrainian. Requests are taken by e-mail: migration.kvr@muenchen.de. All the details - on site service.

Dresden Welcome Center:

The influx of professionals in need and "Florence on the Elbe". Carry them in a bureaucratic jungle is charged with seven employees of the service center in the Town Hall. Schweriner Straße, 1 - the address for those who need advice. "We deal with visa issues, we give practical tips, for example, about which school to send child relocation plan," - says the head of the center Eckert Doris (Doris Eckert).

Welcome Center Pilots For Foreign Professionals

In the circle of clients of the center - a few hundred people from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The working languages ​​here - German, English. Help provide telephone +49 035148 86051 or email: akzess@dresden.de. Preliminary information is available on the city website: www.welcome.dresden.de . And the one who wants to work in the field of science and culture service of Dresden Concept (in the same building) to advise on the resume.

Welcome center Hessen Frankfurt am Main:

"Your chance of Hesse!" - Site service center does not give empty promises. In this federal land will be glad to new personnel in the technical industry, medicine and the field of care for the sick and elderly. While experts from the CIS Welcomecenter Hessen- rare visitors. In his address received requests from Azerbayzhdana, Uzbekistan, Russia, Ukraine and Tajikistan.

"Most people are interested in vacancies, language schools and procedures for the recognition of diplomas. We will answer any questions and help you create a resume," - emphasizes Julia Sternberg employee (Julia Sternberg). Site service provides the first glimpse of the region. It also placed ads on the activities of foreigners: www.work-in-hessen.de .

Welcome Center Thuringia in Erfurt:

In the historical building located at Willy-Brandt-Platz, 1 (opposite the station) and foreign specialists for those who want to receive professional education, will have a warm welcome. By 2025, Thüringen will be missed 280,000 personnel in industry and medicine. To solve the problem here Agency was established to attract professionals in charge of, and is the service center.


Today, five of its staff hold individual consultations and respond by e-mail all questions about school, work and life in Thuringia. Organized as a "hot" telephone line. The contact details and opening hours - on the site: www.welcome-to-thuringia.de .

Welcome Center Stuttgart

In the fall of 2014 began to receive visitors and a  service center in Stuttgart. This town, as well as the federal state of Baden-Württemberg as a whole, needs to be IT-personnel and technical specialists, in the field of child-rearing and care for the sick and elderly. Himself Baden-Wurttemberg - record for the number of Welcome Center: 10 from here! Customer service gives advice Stuttgart nine employees. One of the working languages ​​- Russian. Contact details are available on the website the center: 

www.welcome.stuttgart.de .

North Rhine-Westphalia - in the tail:

Your service center is about to open, and North Rhine-Westphalia. Its employees have already been trained, only premises in Essen yet: its construction is delayed. Meanwhile, in the Ruhr area, in particular in Essen are many large enterprises like RWE, ThyssenKrupp, Evonik, which are in dire need of personnel with technical education and international experience.