1. Seite 0 Klaus Münstermann Careers Advisor/ EURES Advisor International Cooperation Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Zentrale Auslands- und Fachvermittlung (ZAV) mailto: ZAV.Outgoing1@arbeitsagentur.deZAV.Outgoing1@arbeitsagentur.de www.zav.de Tel: +49 228 / 713 – 1436 Zentrale Auslands- und Fachvermittlung (ZAV) The International Department of Germany‘s PES Eric Modrof Careers Advisor Internationaler Personalservice Berlin Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Zentrale Auslands- und Fachvermittlung (ZAV) mailto: ZAV-IPS-Berlin-Brandenburg@arbeitsagentur.deZAV-IPS-Berlin-Brandenburg@arbeitsagentur.de www.zav.de Tel: +49 30 5555 99 6753

2. Seite 1 ▬ about 150 local Job Centers nationwide ▬ ZAV as a Special Unit (Incoming/Outgoing) ▬ Occupational Information Centers (BIZ) ▬ EURES-Advisors and EURES-Assistants ▬ EURES NCO as a part of the ZAV PES in Germany

3. Seite 2 Main Tasks of Germany‘s PES (Bundesagentur für Arbeit):  Guidance regarding vocational training (dual training)  Information on professions  Financial support during trainings (Bundesausbildungbeihilfe)  Placement Services nationwide  Unemployment benefits PES in Germany

4. Seite 3 Article 12 Grundgesetz [Occupational freedom] ▬ (1) All Germans shall have the right freely to choose their occupation or profession, their place of work and their place of training. The practice of an occupation or profession may be regulated by or pursuant to a law. ▬ (2) No person may be required to perform work of a particular kind except within the framework of a traditional duty of community service that applies generally and equally to all. ▬ (3) Forced labour may be imposed only on persons deprived of their liberty by the judgment of a court. Rules and Regulations – The Basic Law The German Constitution grants occupational freedom to everyone

5. Seite 4 Social Act/Social Security Code (Sozialgesetzbuch, part III) § 30 Career Guidance (Berufsberatung): Career Guidance means providing information and advice regarding ▬ the occupational choice, the career development and the change of career ▬ labor market trends und changes within professions ▬ participation in occupational trainings, ▬ the search for dual trainings and employment ▬ financial support to facilitate integration into the labor market ▬ issues of the career advancement and the formal education if they are relevant to the occupational choice or the professional training Rules and Regulations – Social Act

6. Seite 5 § 33 Berufsorientierung The PES (Agentur für Arbeit) is forced to provide orientation regarding professions in order to ▬ prepare young people and adults for their occupational choice ▬ inform those looking for vocational trainings or employment and those who would like to change their career too ▬ inform employers as well Professional Orientation should provide thorough and detailed information on requirements and prospects of occupations and and the latest labor market trends. Rules and Regulations - Professional Orientation

7. Seite 6 Career counselling usually takes place ▬ in one-on-one meetings with a person in search of advice and the careers advisor in the local Job Center ▬ in events organised for groups of students at schools, high schools and universities ▬ during career fairs nationwide ▬ by conversation over the telephone or by using video chats with clients career counselling Additionally there is a lot of information regarding professions and the labor market which is provided online and spread by brochures available at information centers of each local job center (BIZ).

8. Seite 7 Information and advice through careers advisors in the ZAV is provided ▬ to Germans who would like to work abroad (OUTGOING) ▬ to citizens of foreign countries who are looking for work in Germany or intend to apply for a dual training (INCOMING) career counselling within the ZAV