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Labour market
Open jobs1.7M
Avg salary€51,900
Remote share24%
Unemployment5.9%
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Work-Contract Shield

Check the fine print of a German job offer against the law, convert Werkstudent hours into your 140-day budget, and find Dortmund employers who never post on the big job boards.

Contract check (before you sign)

Working days per week
Probation period (months)
Overtime clause in the contract
Fixed-term without stated reason (years)

Werkstudent → 140-day converter

Student permits allow 140 full working days per year (§ 16b Abs. 3). Two half-days (≤4h) count as one full day. See what a job offer really costs in days:

Contract autopsy

Paste your German employment contract — we flag clauses that may not be enforceable or are below market. Nothing is uploaded.

General information, not legal advice. For a binding opinion, consult a lawyer or a union (Gewerkschaft).

Top hiring employers in YOUR city (live)

Who is actually hiring right now? Aggregated nightly from the official federal job feed — enter any German city:

Dortmund's hidden employers (career pages, not job boards)

Large Dortmund-based employers hire continuously on their own career pages — often without posting on Indeed or StepStone. Apply where the queue is short. Links verified by EziLens:

Curated list — official career pages only. Tip: German applications through a company's own portal routinely beat job-board applications on response rate.

All checks are statutory arithmetic (BUrlG, BGB, TzBfG, AufenthG; as cited) — general information, not legal advice (§ 2 RDG).

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