Do you want to start an Ausbildung (apprenticeship) in Berlin? Here you can find important tips, Voraussetzungen (requirements), and support services.
Which apprenticeship is right for me?
There are 16 different occupational fields in Germany and more than 300 apprenticeship professions. If you are not yet sure which apprenticeship suits you, you can take a career orientation test at Test zur Berufsorientierung or find information online at Berufe.net.
Before deciding on an apprenticeship , you can also do an internship to get to know the profession better.
What language level do I need for an apprenticeship?
For most apprenticeships , there is no fixed language level you must have. However, classes at the Berufsschule (OSZ) (vocational school) are taught in German. To understand the lessons and pass the exams, a minimum level of B2 is recommended. For school-based apprenticeships , a higher language level may sometimes be required.
If you want to enter the country with a visa for an apprenticeship , you usually need a B1 Sprachniveau (level of language proficiency).
Which apprenticeships can I do without a school-leaving certificate?
You can find out which school-leaving qualification is recommended for a profession on Ausbildung.de. Click on an apprenticeship profession and check the section “Empf. Schulabschluss” (recommended school-leaving certificate).
There are only a few apprenticeships for which a school-leaving certificate is required — for example, many school-based apprenticeships . For the Berufsschule (OSZ) (vocational school), you will still need basic skills in math, German, English and other subjects.
Your application will have better chances if you obtained your school-leaving certificate in Germany, or if your certificate from another country has been officially recognized in Berlin.
Do you want to get a school-leaving certificate in Berlin later?
There are many counseling centers in Berlin that can support you. Here you can find suitable contacts.
Does an apprenticeship help secure my residence status?
Yes, there are several ways to secure your residence status while doing an apprenticeship . Whether this is possible for you depends on your individual situation.
Get counselling to find out which options apply to your specific case.
When can I start an apprenticeship?
In Berlin, most apprenticeships begin on 1 August or 1 September. Some Berufsschulen (OSZ) (vocational schools) also offer an additional start date in spring. However, you should start your application earlier, as companies often choose their apprentices several months before the official start.
If you missed the beginning of the apprenticeship period, you can still use the time until the next start date in a meaningful way. For example, you can do an Einstiegsqualifizierung (EQ) (entry-level vocational qualification) or an internship .
How do I apply for an apprenticeship?
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For a company-based apprenticeship
You apply directly to a company for the apprenticeship . If you receive an acceptance, the company will register you at the Berufsschule (OSZ) (vocational school). Depending on the profession, there is a specific school that matches your field.
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For a school-based apprenticeship
You register directly at the Berufsfachschule (technical vocational school ) for the apprenticeship . Most schools have contact persons or information days for interested applicants. This is a good opportunity to ask questions about the school and the registration process.
You can find more information about the application process here: So bewirbst du dich auf eine Ausbildung | Bundesagentur für Arbeit
Locations in this map
Willkommenszentrum Berlin
Show on mapThe Counselling Centre for Migrants, which has existed since 1981, and the Welcome Centre Berlin, which was founded in 2016, were merged in April 2021.
People with a history of migration and their relatives continue to receive competent advice on all questions of migration as well as arrival and advancement from a single source. The grown team of the Welcome Center and the cooperation partners, including the networks Integration through Qualification (IQ) and bridge, inform, advise and support individually and multilingually.
The following concerns are covered by the Welcome Centre - Counselling Centre of the Integration Officers:
- Legal advice in migration law
- Hardship counselling
- social counselling
- Advice on the recognition of professional qualifications from abroad
- Advice on training and further education, German courses and job search - Advice on setting up a business
- Advice on labour law
Language overview: https://www.berlin.de/willkommenszentrum/ueber-uns/unsere-partner/
Consulting hours of the partners: https://www.berlin.de/willkommenszentrum/ueber-uns/unsere-partner
Potsdamer Str. 61
10785 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Our consulting takes place on site, by telephone and digitally.
Opening hours:
Mon 9:00-13:00
Tue 9:00-13:00 + 15:00-18:00
Wed 9:00-13:00
Thu 9:00-13:00 + 15:00-18:00
Consultation by e-mail and arrangement of consultation appointments: beratung@intmig.berlin.de
Appointments for consultation by phone:
Mon, Wed, Fri 10:00-12:00 at (030) 9017-23172.
Personal consultation in Ukrainian and Russian
Monday 09 - 13 h
Tuesday 09 to 13 h, 15 to 18 h
Thursday 09 to 13 h, 15 to 18 h
Beratung Bildung & Beruf
Show on mapDo you want to continue your professional training?
- You would like to (re)orientate yourself professionally?
- You would like to apply for a job or are looking for one?
- You would like to study or are looking for an apprenticeship?
- Do you want to learn German or improve your foreign
improve your foreign language skills? - You don't know how to finance your education or further training?
- You would like to catch up on a vocational or school qualification?
- You would like to receive an education premium?
Fischerinsel 3
10179 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Advice on education and careers in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg:
Zossener Straße 36 | 10961 Berlin
Mon. to Fri. 09.00 to 17.00 hrs.
and by appointment
Advice on education and career in Mitte:
Kurfürstenstrasse 131 | 10785 Berlin
by appointment only.
BERATUNG Bildung & Beruf
Show on mapSilbersteinstr. 29
12051 Berlin
Germany
BERATUNG Bildung & Beruf
Show on map- Counselling on career change or reorientation, education and training and re-entry.
*Counselling on general education and learning opportunities
*Advice on financing possibilities for education
*Application check, application workshops, support in preparing application documents
*Information on job offers
*Educational counselling for refugees
Carl-Schurz-Straße 35
13597 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Monday - Friday 9-17
BERATUNG Bildung & Beruf
Show on map[DeepL:] Our advisory services and key topics:
- Advice on (initial and further) training
- Advice on professional (re)orientation and CVs
- Advice on career prospects and access to employment (career path, professional development, application strategy, etc.)
- Advice on employment and qualification (job situation, company qualification and career development and flexibility)
- Advice on learning, forms of learning and learning strategies
- Advice on funding, financing and its conditions
- Mobile advice for refugees and immigrants
Scharnweberstr. 138
13405 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Monday to Friday: 09.00 - 19.00 hrs
BERATUNG Bildung & Beruf
Show on map[DeepL:] Our advisory services and key topics:
- Advice on (initial and further) training
- Advice on professional (re)orientation and CVs
- Advice on career prospects and access to employment (career path, professional development, application strategy, etc.)
- Advice on employment and qualification (job situation, company qualification and career development and flexibility)
- Advice on learning, forms of learning and learning strategies
- Advice on funding, financing and its conditions
- Mobile advice for refugees and immigrants
Storkower Str. 158 (5. OG.)
10407 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Monday to Friday: 09.00 - 19.00 hrs
BERATUNG Bildung & Beruf
Show on map[DeepL:] We offer you individual advice on the various routes to a vocational qualification and on qualification-oriented training. One focus of our advice is modular post-qualification. It offers you the opportunity to acquire a vocational qualification step by step via partial qualifications and to shorten the qualification period if previous vocational experience is recognized.
Advice on offer
- Individual specialist advice on acquiring vocational qualifications, partial qualifications that can be combined with vocational qualifications and advanced training.
- "Vocational orientation workshop" - Are you looking for a career change and not yet sure where you want to go professionally and where your strengths lie? In the workshop, we help you to identify your career-related skills and potential and to develop your career prospects.
- Information events and (group) consultations for participants in the "Qualification before employment" program
Salzburger Straße 15
10825 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00
BERATUNG Bildung & Beruf
Show on mapGutsmuthsstr. 23
12163 Berlin
Germany
BERATUNG Bildung & Beruf
Show on map- Advice on career change or reorientation, education and training and re-entry.
- Advice on general education and learning opportunities
- Advice on financing opportunities for education
- Application check, application workshops, support in the preparation of application documents
- Information on job offers
- Educational counselling for refugees
Karl-Marx-Straße 131
12043 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Neukölln location:
Monday to Friday
09.00 - 17.00
We are always closed on Wednesdays between 13:00 and 15:00.
Open consultation hours without appointment:
Wednesdays, at 9 a.m.
Wednesdays, 3-5 p.m. (Ukrainian)
Treptow-Köpenick location (Oberschöneweide):
Tuesday and Friday
09.00 - 17.00 with appointment
BERATUNG Bildung & Beruf
Show on map[DeepL:] Advice on the following topics:
- Training and further education
- Studies
- Internship, compulsory internship
- professional reorientation and reorientation, career entry and CV
- Individual location and skills analyses
- Professional integration of refugees and immigrants
- Recognition of foreign educational qualifications
- Funding, financing and help with applications (BAföG, upgrading BAföG, education bonus, etc)
- Career prospects and access to employment (career path, professional development, application strategy, etc.)
- Employment and qualification (job situation, company qualification and career development as well as flexibility)
- Catching up on a vocational qualification
- Voluntary services (FSJ, FÖJ, voluntary work, etc)
- Language acquisition and improvement
- Learning, learning methods and strategies
- Referral of specific advice requests to specialist institutions and bodies
Appointments by appointment also in and other locations (see website):
Herzbergstr. 33/34, House 3, 10365 Berlin
Wolfener Str. 32-34, House O, 12681 Berlin
Bernhard-Bästlein-Str. 3
10367 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Lichtenberg location:
Monday: 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
09.00 - 17.00
Thursday: 16.00 - 17.00
(by arrangement)
Friday: 09.00 - 17.00 hrs
Locations Marzahn and Hellersdorf:
Appointments by appointment
BERATUNG Bildung & Beruf
Show on map[DeepL:] Advice on education and careers for all people, including further education, educational opportunities, financing education, career guidance and development
Further focal points:
- Advice also for students, in the event of dropping out of university and/or professional reorientation
- Qualification advice also for companies/institutions in the health, care and social sector
Ziegelstraße 30
10117 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Appointments by arrangement
BERATUNG Bildung & Beruf
Show on map[DeepL:] The target groups are:
- Entrepreneurs and employees of SMEs
- HR and training managers in SMEs
- Representatives of interests in companies
- The professional public
The advisory service includes:
- Advice on further training needs and qualifications for company employees (workplace situation, in-company qualification)
- Advice on possible vocational qualifications (individual company retraining, post-qualification, modular qualification with the aim of obtaining a vocational qualification while working)
- Advice on current funding opportunities, financing and their conditions
- Advice on the implementation of company training objectives, training needs analysis, further training strategy
- Advice on setting up and optimizing the "personnel and further training" management process
- Sensitization of companies for low-skilled and older employees as well as company health management
Karl-Marx-Str. 122
12043 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] On-site consultations throughout Berlin
in companies by appointment
Telephone advice for SMEs
Tel: 030 - 203 89 94 33
BERATUNG Bildung & Beruf
Show on map- Counselling on career change or reorientation, education and training and re-entry.
*Counselling on general education and learning opportunities
*Advice on financing possibilities for education
*Application check, application workshops, support in the preparation of application documents
*Information on job offers
*Educational counselling for refugees
Brandenburgische Straße 86/87
10713 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Mon. 12:00 to 17:00
Tue.-Fri. 9:00 to 17:00 (or by appointment)
bridge – Berliner Netzwerk für Bleiberecht
Show on mapBridge Vocational Guidance at Work and Education includes the following services:
- Vocational orientation
- Career planning
- Referral counselling
Kurfürstenstraße 131
10785 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Appointment by arrangement
bridge – Berliner Netzwerk für Bleiberecht
Show on map[DeepL:] bridge supports asylum seekers, tolerated persons and refugees with temporary residence permits by providing practical assistance in finding work and training and in catching up on school qualifications.
The aim of the network is to sustainably improve the employment opportunities of refugees and to secure their legal residence situation in the long term.
Services:
- Advice for refugees from Ukraine on labor market integration, in Russian and Ukrainian, family counseling.
- Advice on professional orientation, career planning Support in the search for training and jobs, in the application process, etc.
- Placement in various advisory programs in Club Dialog, offers from the network partners of the "bridge" program
- Placement in training, work or measures to catch up on school-leaving qualifications or approach the job market through placement in (practical vocational) language courses, qualification offers
- Regular group information events on the following topics: Structure of the German labor market in contrast to the Ukrainian one, types of employment, professions in Germany, etc.
Lindower Str. 18
13347 Berlin
Germany
bridge – Berliner Netzwerke für Bleiberecht
Show on mapThe bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.
Offers at the Centre for Survival:
- Vocational and training preparation in the commercial, industrial-technical and gastronomic fields.
- Placement in training and work
- Counselling for university graduates with foreign degrees
- Advice on residence law
- Implementation of training courses
- Psychological support/coaching
Turmstraße 21
10559 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Mon 13-15 h
Fri 13-15 h
bridge – Berliner Netzwerke für Bleiberecht
Show on mapThe bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.
Offers of the BBZ:
- Support in the search for a school place, training and studies.
- Counselling and support during training
- tutoring and preparation for exams
Stromstraße 47
10551 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Appointments via e-mail or telephone consultation hours
Open consultation hours for initial consultations and emergencies without an appointment:
Tuesday from 10:30 a.m.
Telephone consultation hours:
Thursday 13:00 - 16:00
bridge – Berliner Netzwerke für Bleiberecht
Show on mapThe bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.
Offers of the Paulo Freire:
- Vocational field counselling
- Carrying out basic nursing courses and training preparation
- Placement in work and training in the occupational field of health/nursing/social work
- Training in the occupational field of health/nursing/social care
Turmstraße 21
10559 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Open Counseling:
Tue 9-11am
Thu 14.30-16.30
bridge – Berliner Netzwerke für Bleiberecht
Show on mapThe bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.
The services of the ARRIVO contact office include:
- Counselling, preparation and placement of refugees seeking training and employment.
- Employer acquisition
- Advice and preparation of companies for the employment of refugees in training and jobs.
Schlesische Straße 27b
10997 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Appointment by arrangement
bridge – Berliner Netzwerke für Bleiberecht
Show on mapThe bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.
Offers of the GFBM:
- counselling and placement in German courses
- Qualification, training and employment courses
- language assessment
Colditzstraße 34-36
12099 Berlin
Germany
[DeepL:] Appointments by appointment
Open consultation:
Wed 10:00-12:00
Thu 13:00-16:00
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