Legal requirements
If you are a citizen of Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Switzerland or an EU country, you enjoy several special advantages: You have the same access to the German labour market as German citizens. As a result, you are not required to get a residence permit or permission from the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (federal job agency) to work in Germany.
Links
To help you get oriented, we have put together some information about the German federal government’s campaign to attract qualified professionals, the process of having international qualifications recognised in Germany, standards for the job application process and successful search strategies.
- Internship and job portals
- Academics – career portal
- Working in Switzerland