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**Rod924** · 25-04-2012, 21:12

My daughter recently moved back to Germany in order to find work and sort her life out. However, she is struggling to get the correct translation for her schooling and qualifications, and, as she informs me, without them she can`t apply for jobs!!! Erm, really???

Anyway, she is bi-lingual in German/English. Has 11 GCE`s (2 a stars, 3 a`s, 3 b`s and 3 c grades) and 3 A Levels (German A, English B and French C)

So how do these translate in the German Employment market. How is it phrased on her CV (zeugnis) and what else is needed???

Someone out there knows having been through this so your help and guidance is most welcome.

**spannermonkey** · 25-04-2012, 21:25

Check your pm's

**Negligent-Discharge** · 25-04-2012, 21:44

If memory serves CV is Lebenslauf.

**ECE-Tech** · 25-04-2012, 21:45

Left the army in 2007 after 22 years service and settled in Germany.
I have not yet got my educational certificates and qualifications translated and certified and it hasn´t stopped me getting a job in a german company.
I am the highest earning person in my dept at 19 Euros an hour. The next highest gets 15 and he is beurocratically my senior. Luckily he has the sense to realise I could do his job but he cannot do mine, and he leaves me alone to get on with it.
At a larger firm where Unions have more of a say, it could be a problem but at the smaller firms, the employers are interested in what a person can "do" and not what their paper "qualifications" say they can "do".

Nothing is stopping her from applying for jobs. How succesful she is depends on how she applies herself.

**Brotherton Lad** · 25-04-2012, 21:50

Start here for mapping qualifications. Haven't served in Germany for almost 20 years, so am out of date myself:

European Commission - The European Qualifications Framework (EQF)

page 29 here

http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelo...kreport_en.pdf

gives an overview of GCSE and A level grades (I'm assuming your daughter went through the English system, not Scottish).

**Rod924** · 25-04-2012, 21:55

Originally Posted by ECE-Tech:4363134

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I too worked in Germany for 3 years with an Oil and Gas company but I was older and employed. So it would appear very relevant for someone with no work experience. But I do concur with the points you have made. Thanks

PrinceAlbert · 25-04-2012, 21:57

A = A
B = B
C = C

It's just the pronunciation that changes.

Glad to have helped.

**Rod924** · 25-04-2012, 21:58

Originally Posted by Brotherton Lad:4363140

Start here for mapping qualifications. Haven't served in Germany for almost 20 years, so am out of date myself:

European Commission - The European Qualifications Framework (EQF)

I did research this, but unless it has been updated, only translates like for like at HND and above. Thanks anyway for your post