Presentation:
“IN A Nutshell – FACTS ON GERMANY FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES“
In cooperation with
Basic data on Germany I
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81m population, #age 46, 353.000 km²,
Member of EU
Largest economy in Europe
No. 4 in the world
Export World Champion
Basic data on Germany II
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16 federal states
Capital Berlin
Languages spoken
Dramatic demographic situation
Weather / green
German Politics
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Parliamentary democracy
Main parties: CDU, SPD, Green, Left, Liberals, AfD
Chancellor Merkel (CDU)
Recent migration crisis
German Culture
• How do Germans do the things they do?
• Direct, open, honest (usually), hard/strict, uncompromising on
principles
• Brain over heart
• German decision makers (esp. In health services)
Short history of Ph-Ge labor
• Many Ph nurses came in the 70s – big success story
• Triple win project
• Currently 200.000 Filipinos living in Germany
German immigration policy
• To counteract the demographic crisis Germany needs
workers (huge numbers)
• First try EU
• Now open for skilled workers from all over the world
• Difference – you can stay for good and family is
welcome
• System: whitelist + soon to be added to whitelist
professions
German labour relations
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Usually harmonious
Legal system strongly favours employee side
No unequal pay for Filipinos possible (up and down)
Legal system and union framework agreements
Social welfare system
Debts can be reliably collected
Workplaces for nurses
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Hospitals
Mobile health care/nursing home services
Homes for the elderly
NOT individual care/yaya/nanny
Salaries and benefits for nurses
• Initial gross salary between 2200 – 2500 EUR (1 EUR =
53php)
• Net salary ca. 70.000-75.000 php
• Lots of social security included (20-30 free days, health
insurance, unemployment insurance etc.)
• Childrens` money (200EUR per child)
Certification process
• Slightly different for each state
• All require the following
- Registered nurse
- B2 (B1) language certificate
- Additional training in Germany
- translations of documents done by translator certified
in Germany*
*IMPORTANT: Recommendation by the German
Embassy has no legal value in Germany itself.
Learning German
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Common frame of reference A1-C2
Nurses require B2 (B1)
4 levels / 6 weeks intensive course / 20h per week
At the end final B2 exam (external)
Telc / Goethe
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