Top jobs for German work visa

Germany is facing labour shortage challenges as the country has about 1.98 million job vacancies, according to the Institute for Employment Research.

Earlier this year, German parliament approved a new immigration law that would make it easier for skilled foreign workers and refugees to access Europe’s biggest economy and help address labor shortages in growing number of professions.

Despite the changes, the nation is still struggling to meet its skilled labour demand in specific fields.

To work in Germany, non-German citizens require visa but citizens of European Union member states do not require visa. Whereas nationals of Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, USA, and South Korea can enter the country with a passport but they must apply for a residence permit upon their arrival.

Investogist gathered that the areas with high demand of skilled workers are as follows in alphabetical order:

1. Automation
2. Bus and tram drivers
3. Drivers for earthmoving and related machinery
4. Forestry
5. Freight forwarding and logistics
6. Glazing
7. Horticulture
8. Interior construction and dry walling
9. Livestock farming
10. Metalworking
11. Monitoring and maintenance of railway infrastructure
12. Pharmaceutical technical assistants
13. Pipeline construction
14. Plant, container and apparatus construction
15. Sales
16. Sales (furniture, fittings)
17. Surveying, scaffolding
18. System catering
19. Tyre and vulcanisation technology
20. Wood, furnishing, interior fitting

Ifunanya Ikueze

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