Securing skilled labor and integration

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The BQ-Portal offers comprehensive information on recognition of foreign professional qualifications as well as on recruitment and integration of foreign skilled workers. Below you can see an overview of our central contents for companies.

Accompanying the recognition process

The section Accompanying the recognition process explains the recognition procedure in detail and its advantages. You will find information on steps and modules involved in the recognition process and on various offers of information and advice. Furthermore, you will find an overview of the costs of the recognition procedure and available funding options as well as answers to the frequently asked questions about professional recognition in this section.

Foreign Skilled Workers

Information on the Skilled Immigration Act, the recognition potentials of vocational diplomas from selected focus countries and contact points for companies are presented in the section Foreign Skilled Workers.

Refugee Qualifications

You can get an overview of the Qualifications of Refugees in Germany and information on different aspects of their integration in companies in this section. This section also contains our compact country overviews with information on vocational training in the main countries of origin of the refugees and an overview of the contact points for the integration of refugees in companies.

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Further initiatives to secure skilled workers and promote integration

German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ): The GIZ supports the German government in achieving its goals in international cooperation. One focus of its activities is on projects that help companies recruit foreign skilled workers.

My Way to Germany: The Goethe-Institut's web portal helps immigrants get their bearings in Germany. There you will find helpful information on everyday life and working in Germany in 27 languages. The service is supplemented by important addresses of authorities and advice centers.

Jobstarter—Shaping the future: This project promotes dual vocational training to strengthen small and medium-sized enterprises for the future. This also includes the Coordination Agency for Training and Migration (KAUSA). Its goals are: To attract self-employed people with a migrant background to vocational training and to increase the participation of young migrants and refugees in training. 32 KAUSA service centers offer local advice and support.

Success Factor Family: The “Success Factor Family” business network informs companies about family-friendly personnel policies and serves as a knowledge platform on topics such as working time arrangements, family-friendly management, and personnel marketing.

Initiative New Quality of Work (INQA): INQA makes work better! Under this motto, the Initiative New Quality of Work supports companies, administrations, and their employees in the changing world of work. It promotes a healthy, safe, and successful work culture that benefits both companies and employees alike.

unternehmensWert: Mensch: This nationwide program supports small and medium-sized enterprises in developing sustainable and employee-oriented human resources policies. To this end, it promotes consulting services in four areas: human resources management, equal opportunities and diversity, health, and knowledge and skills. In these areas, professional consultants work with company management and employees to develop customized concepts and measures for successful human resources policies.

Offensive Mittelstand- Gut für Deutschland: This initiative promotes conditions that enable small and medium-sized enterprises to operate, supports companies in increasing their competitiveness, and helps them to design their processes in an innovative and prevention-oriented manner. It contributes to coping with demographic change through concepts for successful personnel development, bundles energies for effective support of small and medium-sized enterprises, and underscores the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises as a driving force.