Come ogni studente, sono venuto qui con molte aspettative e sogno. Ma ora, sembra che tutto stia solo svanendo. Sto per completare la mia laurea in 5 mesi. Nessuno studente di lavoro, nessun lavoro assistente di ricerca, lavora come pilota solo negli ultimi 2,5 anni. Le persone con cattivo tedesco di me che ottengono più lavoro. Come? Ho il livello B1 del tedesco. Sono molto bravo nelle conversazioni. Solo il mio tedesco tecnico è cattivo. Ha fatto solo un’intervista con Audi nelle stesse parole tecniche tedesche. Qualche consiglio? O dovrei semplicemente accettare la mia fede o il mio destino e tornare nel mio Heimatland. Qualsiasi consiglio su quali abilità dovrei imparare sarebbe apprezzato 👍
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di Empty-Tea-9011
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Its an english cv. Do you send a german one for german job descriptions?
Hello mate, i would say maybe also highlight some soft skills that you have from previous employment and emphasis those a bit more as only seeing it mentioned in the 4th bullet point of the top job.
What kind of jobs are you searching for specifically and are you also sending cover letters?
You don’t want to hear it but it’s probably the german. It really limits you in this job market. 😔 keep trying and while you are waiting maybe take a B2 intensive?
2 points from me:
1- don’t use dots to measure your experience.
2- translate the cv in German.
Well, learn the technical language. There is no other way. If you know that is your weakness, then that’s what you need to work on. Also, translate your CV to German.
Three things come to mind when I look at your cv:
– the design looks like you used a template and isn’t very appealing
– your work experience doesn’t tell me what exactly you did. For example “created annual reports”: what exactly were your tasks? Did you gather the data, did you calculate anything?
– the focus of your studies is described in a very broad manner. Don’t just list all the subjects you had
Try to answer what problem you solved and how, that should help.
Best of luck!
For my personal preference its a bit loaded.
It just seem like a lot of text. Maybe shorteb your technical skulls a bit and shorten your work experience and specialise it for the exact application at any given time
Ok, first and biggest red flag — it is in English. Come one, use deepl, translate it into german, let somebody, even your teacher, check it out and you will have way better chances.
Avoid long sentences and KISS (keep it… you know). What does „deepened understanding…“ mean? Make it bullet points: CNC, … , drilling, milling. Setup, operation and maintenance of cooling towers and compressors.
And don‘t forget, the current situation is far from brilliant.
You should check if your CV is ATS compatible. You can use LaTeX CV templates which would make it look more professional. This one looks a bit fancy, use simpler CVs.
You masters focus sounds highly unfocused… Apart from that not to bad. What kind of work you are looking for?
I did not read a single word and did decide I don’t want to look at this, and now think about a recruiter that gets hundreds of these each week. It looks like every other cv. Maybe you can work on it to be unique
I remember a similar post a few months ago and one of the top comments was not to use these scales with dots.
Put professional experience before Education. As much companies value experience more than Education. And please get rid of the point system for language and technical skills. 4 of 5 points for Excel doesn’t make any sense.
“Just my technical German is bad.”
Isn’t that what you will need most?
Economy is doing bad right now and I’ve heard that the situation is even worse for mechanical engineers.
No dots.
It’s repetitive. You don’t need to mention Microsoft Office three times, plus Excel (which is part of Office) four times.
The “soft skills” are basically meaningless.
My wife got 60 rejections, the minute she mentioned on her CV that she has an Arbeitserlaubnis, she got 2 interviews. Put a German address and telephone number on it as well.
B1 might not be enough for employers, more over in specialized fields. We are in times of economic woes, so they might think that you can’t contribute with your „insufficient“ German. And be honest to yourself, you mentioned that your technical vocabulary leaves room for improvement , which means that work-related conversations with you might get harder for your partners.
Just by reading your CV, they might filter you out because of B1. Try to achieve B2 or C1. Looks much better in an application.
Good luck on your job hunt.
Some notes.
– 100 rejections is not terrible. The job market is tough right now and is common to go through a couple hundred of them, I certainly did. Keep at it, dedicate time to it. I know how exhausting it is.
– Drop these “modern” CV templates. The “dot” scales for your skills and languages look unprofessional, just list what you’re good at, no “scores”. Make sure to make your CV machine-readable, so that the automatic systems can easily find the important keywords. You can test for this online. Also, lead with your professional experience. It’s the most important part, put it on top. Drop Microsoft Office and Excel (which is part of Office) from your skills. Those are expected knowledge, putting them there looks like you’re padding out your CV, specially when you put them first. Also, drop the “soft skills” and “interests” section, they will skip past them in a heartbeat. Instead, add a personal statement, a small paragraph explaining who you are and why you’re adequate for the job “I am a graduate student of blah blah who works excellently in teams, I am reliable, and have experience in this and that…” etc. Also please don’t put “stress resistance” anywhere on your resume, that’s a terrible look.
– Research the companies you apply for before interviewing, and learn the domain language of the field you are working on. “knowing technical german” is a much taller order than “knowing automotive engineering terminology”, for example.
Technical Skills: Microsoft Office. If this is the best you got, i have bad news for you.
First of all nothing is wrong with you, finding a job can be challenging and a lengthy process.
For your CV, may I ask what your native language is? You put both English and German but you didn’t give yourself a “top” mark in either. Here I would usually put my native language or the languages I worked/ studied in higher. Perhaps be less humble here! Same for your skills, there should be 1-2 things you’re really confident in. In that case give yourself the top score there!
You could also write a small 2-3 sentence intro on the top, describing who you are as a person.
If you have work experience: re-structure the CV by putting your work experience on top, then projects and lastly education.
Good luck for your job search. A pro tip would also be to always slightly adjust your CV based on the job requirements. Sometimes you may use synonyms for the tools/ skills you have, so use the ones they say in the description.
Not sure about your pic but don’t use an ID photo.
Find smt. you wearing casual (fitting to the work) and looking professional.
Also add somewhere a text indicating you have a working permit if you have (yes or no or student-visa, not much detail).
Bad resume format (use single column) leads to lower ATS score.
Bad market. 100 rejections are rookie numbers.
Get that B1 to a B2 in the meantime. C1 if you can.
I only have an engineering bachelor’s but speak German fluently. Applied to about 20-25 jobs last year. Got called for an interview at 3, got a job at one of them
Break the description for your work experience and projects into smaller and crispier sentences…you have written a paragraph there.
I think you need to check if your cv is ATS readable. Most companies screen using tools nowadays. The two column templates usually aren’t ATS friendly.
1. You can run your CV through an ATS, this is what most employers receive. It’s an automated system that absolutely sucks but it tells you if the employer is receiving the information you want them to. As others have said, the dot system doesn’t transfer into the ATS system.
2. What is your mother tongue? My first impression is that you can speak English and German at an intermediate level, but you’ve grown up with some kind of language eh?
3. Tailor to the position, have different CVs for what the job is looking for (horrendous I know but it does help)
You currently only have a degree from your homecountry. Depending on where that is, potential employers might completely dismiss that. So you are an applicant with no proven qualifications and an okay level of German. That is okay for delivery jobs and maybe student jobs in your field, if you are very lucky. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
On top of that, the economic outlook is currently a bit uncertain, so few companies are hiring and generally they are not taking risks.
It might be a bit of a dry spell, but you’ll manage, like so many have managed before.
Your CV template is where you went wrong to begin with
B1 – that’s why.
Das größte Problem : diese Lebenslauf ist nicht auf Deutsch geschrieben.
You used to be a manager, you should’ve figured out why, no?
Today I had my 400th rejection; not even for high level jobs, literally anything. I don’t get accepted.
A tip from me: Most people in leadership positions in Germany are German boomers, and German boomers prefer speaking German. So, you should work on your German and speak as much German as possible. Even if it’s not perfect, you’re showing them that they don’t have to switch to English and can speak German instead.
1. When you state levels of language proficiency in GER-Levels (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2) the scale next to it is unnecessary.
2. If German is B1 and English C1, what’s your native language? Why us it not listed?
3. You state Microsoft Office as a different Skill than Excel when Excel is part of MS Office. Do you mean MS Word? Powerpoint? Outlook?
4. The soft-skills you name are basic necessities for human interaction. This is like an employer listing “punctual payment” as a job benefit.
5. How is it relevant to a job description that you like travelling, camping and sketching?
6. The descriptions of your jobs are repetitive and somewhat redundant. You list the tools you know on the left. No need to tell them that you used Excel during a specific job at some point.
7. Are you applying with this English CV to German positions?
8. If your technical German is bad, learn it.
9. How does your Anschreiben for your Applications look? That’s usually the first impression they get of you.
Maybe it’s because companies receive tons of CVs like yours.There are only 2 ways, you will keep applying till you got the job or you will put real effort to make your skills and your CV unique
So you went from internship straight to manager roll? As HR I would not buy this…so youu were a real manager, in charge of X number of people, earning 100k, 150k, 200k…?
You won’t even pass ATS with this. I guess you are using the same cv for every position?
For many anaemic jobs in Germany, C1 is required. Only B1 essentially means that you cannot read or write a professional document in German, nor can you follow and participate in an expert discussion in your field.
This limits your employment opportunities to the few German companies with English as main language. And there the competition is much stronger.
Might also be racism. As stupid as it is.
Stress Resistant – pls don’t do that. It just show to HR that you are not experience enough with work with people. It’s like a red flag.
if this fellas english is 4 dots good i dont wanna experience his 2 doted german.