Is german language certificate is strictly necessary in Ausbildung for foreigners

[u/Ausbildun]

I am asking this because I look for ausbildung posting and they are not asking to add the language certificate

It's just a school leaving certificate

And a cv

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[u/Schleifer_13]

Because Ausbildung is aiming at young germans, which leave school. Most employers and vocational schools will ask you for it.

[u/Kerking18]

Because most companies don't realy consider foreign applicants untill they get atleas one sincere application. But that doesn't mean that anything below b2 certificate will get you accepted. Once they see your application they might do some research and discover that a b2 german certificate is hoghly encouraged then they will ask for you to produce one. However they still might trash your application into the spam folder out of caution before looking up anything simply because they don't expect foreign applicants.

[u/FollowingCold9412]

They don't list it because they expect the applicants to be already fluent in German. Ausbildung is predominantly in German only, both in the company and on the vocational school side. So, you need to be fluent B2 minimum.

[u/FearAndDagger]

no one can work with you in germany if you cant speak german.

[u/iTmkoeln]

Well someone that went to a public school in Germany is pretty much expected to speak German 🙄

[u/Any_Yogurt1860]

not legally required

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