About this site
Jobs without German lists openings in Germany, Austria and the German-speaking part of Switzerland that don't require German.
If you have moved here, or want to, you already know the problem. There are jobs. Plenty of companies in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg work entirely in English. But finding those jobs means opening advert after advert, reading to the bottom, and discovering verhandlungssicheres Deutsch in the requirements. Again.
This site does that reading for you. Every listing carries one of three labels:
- English is the working language — the advert says so outright.
- No German asked for — the advert is in English and does not ask for German anywhere in it, but does not say what language the work happens in either.
- English works, German helps — advertised in English, with German mentioned as an advantage rather than a requirement.
Anything asking for fluent or business-level German is dropped before it reaches the site. That is the entire point.
Those labels describe the advert, not the job. An advert that says nothing about language is not the same as an employer promising none is needed, and we try never to blur the two. How we label German explains exactly what each label is based on, and where the labelling is still imperfect.
How it works
Listings come from employers' own public job boards — the same feeds companies publish so that job sites can carry their vacancies — and from employers who send them to us directly. Nothing here is copied from StepStone, Indeed, LinkedIn or Xing.
Software reads each advert, drops anything that asks for German, and keeps a short extract of the rest. Every listing then links to the employer's own page. You apply there, with them. We are not a recruiter, not an agency, and never involved in the hiring.
Because a machine does the reading, it will sometimes get one wrong. If you find a listing that asks for German, or a label that does not match the advert, please tell us — that is the mistake worth fixing above all others.
What this is
A personal project, run in evenings and weekends by one person who arrived in Germany and found this harder than it needed to be. There is nothing to pay and nothing to sign, for jobseekers or for employers.
No adverts are shown on this site at present, and it earns nothing. Google's ad script is loaded on every page all the same, because it is what shows you Google's own question about ads — the privacy page explains what that script does and how to say no. If an advert is ever shown here it will be marked Advertisements, sit after the page's own content, never among the listings, and be chosen by Google, not by us; no advert has any say over which jobs appear here or what label a job gets. No listing is sponsored or placed in return for anything.
Who runs it
Valentine Pereira, in Munich.
Email: info@jobswithoutgerman.de Instagram: @jobswithoutgerman LinkedIn: Jobs Without German
The full legal details are on the Impressum.
Where we're listed
The University of Graz Career Center lists this site on its page of job sites, under "Jobs without German Knowledge".
Guides
Four to start with, written in plain English — every guide is listed on the guides page:
- Visas and work permits — whether you need permission to work, and which route fits
- Applying in Germany — the CV, the cover letter, and what to expect
- Where the jobs are — by industry, company type and city
- After you arrive — Anmeldung, tax ID, health insurance, in order
For employers
If you hire in English in Germany, Austria or German-speaking Switzerland and want your roles listed, see for employers. It takes one link to your own careers page.
What we leave off
Several hundred adverts a night are read and not published — talent pools, speculative-application forms, roles posted twice, work that turns out to be somewhere else. How this list is made counts every one of them, by reason, and is recounted every night.
Auf Deutsch
Jobs in Deutschland ohne Deutschkenntnisse — diese Seite auf Deutsch erklärt.