Searching for jobs

You may use the free service provided by the EURES Network in your home country to search for jobs. Enquire at your employment office to speak with an EURES advisor and find out about job openings in Saxony ( EURES Network).

You can also travel to Saxony and register with the local office of the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Federal Labor Office, BAA) as an individual seeking employment (www.arbeitsagentur.de).

If you are registered as unemployed and receive unemployment compensation in your home country, you are free to travel to Saxony and continue receiving your benefits there for a certain period of time. If you wish to take advantage of this option, you must:

have been registered with the Arbeitsagentur for at least 4 weeks;
submit Form PD U2 to the appropriate local office of the Arbeitsagentur;
register with the appropriate local office of the Bundesagentur für Arbeit and submit Form PD U2 no later than 7 days after your arrival in Saxony. From that point on, you must remain available to the BAA for placement in the labor market.

If all requirements are met, the employment office in your home country will continue to pay your unemployment compensation for a period of 3 months from the date of your departure (to your account in your home country!). In certain cases, your entitlement to payments may be extended to 6 months. You will remain covered by health insurance in your home country as long as you continue to receive unemployment compensation payments. If you are already living and working in Saxony and wish (or are compelled) to seek other employment, you can register as unemployed or in search of employment with the appropriate local office of the BAA. To do so, simply make an appointment for counselling (Agentur für Arbeit) or look for a job yourself through the job exchange (Agentur für Arbeit).

Further information is provided at: Make it in Germany