Bundesagentur für Arbeit

We are your competent partner for job and training placement. Every day, we advise people on topics related to their careers. On a daily basis, we support citizens with financial benefits such as unemployment benefits and child benefits. We focus on people.

Our working world is changing — and with it, the way we work for you. We are responding to the challenges of the future with our Strategy 2025.

Specialists for companies

There will be significantly fewer workers available in the next 10 to 20 years: Many people will retire — at the same time, not enough younger employees are moving in. We are responding to demographic change by Intensive support for employers Train or attract skilled workers — domestically and, where necessary, abroad.

Networked advice for young people

For young people, the transition from school to work should be as smooth as possible. To help them do so, we are networking even more intensively with schools and companies. Anyone who wants to complete an apprenticeship should receive expert advice as early as possible. This is done, for example, by the youth employment agencies that we introduced a few years ago. We are constantly expanding this range of services.

Good advice throughout a professional life

Developments in society as a whole, such as digitalization or the effects of demographic change with an aging population, are changing the working life of every individual.

Occupational requirements are changing, new occupations are emerging and others are disappearing. Workers change jobs or jobs more frequently than before. That is why we are increasingly focusing on a individual career guidance, Which, in addition to unemployment, all other phases of working life covers.