“I had three half-finished certificates and no idea which one German workshops actually cared about. The session sorted that before I wasted another year.”— Marco K., Career Transition Consultation · metalwork to industrial maintenance, Magdeburg area
Evidence
Client stories from the shop floor up
Names used with permission. Details trimmed where they would identify a current employer.
“The Anerkennung checklist alone saved me from translating a stack of pages nobody asked for. I still had to wait on the chamber — that part is slow — but at least I was waiting on the right desk.”— Ivana S., Qualification Recognition Guidance · electrician credentials from abroad
“My first Anschreiben sounded like I was apologising for leaving Schichtarbeit. After coaching it read like someone who could still cover peaks but needed Tagearbeit to stay in the trade. Two interviews followed; one offer.”— Tobias R., Trades Application Coaching
“Helpful on the Umschulung timeline, though I wished we had spent even longer on funding forms. I finished those with the Arbeitsagentur afterwards. The Betriebsuche plan was the piece I could not have written alone.”— Sabine W., Apprenticeship Re-entry Planning · mild reservation noted
“We rehearsed the Sicherheitsfragen the Meister actually asked. I still stumbled once on a machine I had not touched in five years, but the rest of the visit felt like work talk instead of an exam.”— Daniel P., Employer Introduction Session
Extended story: from press-line operator to Instandhaltung
Marco arrived with a nearly complete Industriemechaniker path interrupted by a plant restructuring, plus two short Weiterbildung certificates that looked impressive on paper and meant little to local workshops. In the Career Transition Consultation we ranked credentials by employer demand in the Magdeburg commuting radius, dropped one course from his narrative, and timed applications around his remaining Kündigungsfrist.
Eight weeks later he held a befristeter Vertrag in industrial maintenance. The plan did not invent experience he lacked; it stopped him leading with the wrong certificate.
Extended story: adult return to Heizungsbau Ausbildung
Sabine had left an unfinished apprenticeship a decade earlier for family reasons and now wanted Heizungsbau. The re-entry session compared finishing vs. starting Umschulung, mapped application months for Ausbildungsbetriebe near the Harz, and drafted how to speak about the gap without oversharing. She secured a trial week at a Meisterbetrieb; the formal Lehrvertrag followed after funding confirmation from the agency — a step outside our scope but prepared for in the written plan.