Our approach
We started in 2008 with the placement of young adults into an apprenticeship. In our JOBLINGE program, which lasts a maximum of six months, participants learn important social and job skills in group projects, receive guidance on their own strengths and suitable professions before gaining practical experience in JOBLINGE partner companies.
In addition to constantly striving to expand and update our program, we are always interested in working with all stakeholders in the transition from school to work to shape innovations, strengthen knowledge transfer and thus increase our impact. Two of our highlight projects in recent years are the JOBLINGE Hybrid Project and the Innovation Club by JOBLINGE & Teach First Deutschland – an innovation format that deals with the success factors of programs and initiatives at the transition from school to work. Get involved and use the toolbox we have developed here to implement the Innovation Club in your region.
We take participants in the JOBLINGE program seriously. We look at their skills. We are looking to their future. Not deficit-oriented with a view to possible below-average references, but with active confidence in the motivation and skills that each individual person brings into the mix. Since 2008, we have been proving how scalable, measurable, transparent and sustainable work in the transition system works. With a strong network in the industry, rooted in the region through non-profit stock corporations. “Placement” is JOBLINGE’s core business. 80 percent of all participants in the JOBLINGE program throughout Germany make the step into an apprenticeship, and thus the step towards a more self-determined life.
New Success Factors
JOBLINGE deliberately breaks new ground in order to solve the challenges of the transition from school to work in dialog with business, the public sector and the target group itself. Through interdisciplinary innovation processes, we develop approaches that are transferable and can therefore also be used by other stakeholders. The projects range from innovative ideas for cross-jurisdictional cooperation at the transition to an innovative design of training placement through the direct involvement of the target group itself.
In this process, we must consciously set aside our own assumptions and conjectures.
These principles characterize the development of new JOBLINGE approaches nationwide.Because we don’t just want to be effective where we have fixed locations, we use the “Mission Day” format to enter into discussions with other important stakeholders in the school-to-work transition.At Mission Day, representatives from youth employment agencies, companies, educational institutions and young adults themselves work on how best to establish contact with young people in the transition system
This is because it is important for us not to blindly follow our assumptions about the target group of young people and, in the worst case, to plan without taking needs into account.Instead, we ask about needs and act on these findings.
Partner public sector
