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Employment

Employers, Agencies & Placement Services 
Au-Pair Agency Anette B. Wandres
Au-Pair Agency Angela Greis - Places boys and girls in au pair jobs with families across Germany. You must be between 18 and 24 years old, and must have experience with working with children. There are no fees for au pairs and wages are between 205 and 250 Euro.
Aupair-Service "DesCadeaux" - Au pairs to Germany and German au pairs to EU countries.
Au-Pair-Vermittlung Reinhard Krohn - Au pair jobs around Germany.
Aupair Worldwide - An international German Aupair Agency placing foreign girls and boys as au pairs all over Germany. Free registration for au pairs.
Earlyclick Agency - German au pair agency offering a free service for au pairs.
Europa Park - Theme park with 1,860 seasonal employees. There is no information for potential employees on the site but their clientele is predominantly German, French and Swiss. An ability to communicate to these races in their own language would be an advantage. 
Link2gether Au-Pair Agency - An agency that places girls and boys between 18 and 24 years from every part of the world into host families in Germany. If you have any questions about the rights and duties for au pairs in Germany or if you need more information about the au-pair program in Germany, do not hesitate to contact them. Site is in German.
PerfectPartners - Au pair agency.
Robert Walters - Temp and permanent vacancies in banking and finance, accountancy, secretarial and call centres. Offices also in Australia, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Holland, the UK and the USA.

Employment Resources
Advice & Useful Sites for Finding Work 
Ada Abroad: Living and Working in Germany - An online journal recording two years spent as a Fulbright/Pedagogical Exchange Service Teaching Assistant at secondary schools in Germany.
English in Dresden - Where to learn, speak, watch, read, eat and teach English in Dresden.
The German Wine Page - Though this site is for wine drinkers rather than fruit pickers, it does include a guide and map to the German wine regions.
Munich Found Online - Travel and job information in Munich is available at  We found TEFL and childcare jobs posted when we last looked.
TaxBack.com - Organises tax back for people of all ages and sectors who have worked in Germany. 
Young Germany - Career services, information and insider tips for your life in Germany.

Gap Year & Voluntary Work
Unpaid Positions & Adventure
Bundestag Internship Program - A fully funded fellowship for an academic year during which participants spend one semester studying at the Humboldt University in Berlin and one semester as an intern in the office of a member of the German Parliament. Internships available to the French, East Europeans and Americans.
Council on International Educational Exchange - Exchange programmes.
Euro Practice - Internships, language courses, work and study programmes and au pair positions for European students. Offices in France, England, Germany and Spain.
IBG - German workcamps.
Pro International - International workcamps arranged in Europe and Africa between March and November for volunteers aged 16 to 26.
Working Holidays - Jobs available all the year round in Germany. Enjoy life in the country, on farms or in country hotels, living with the family, looking after children and/or horses, farm animals. The project Happy Hands is suitable for gap year students from England, and all students from EU countries wishing to perfect their knowledge of the German language and help the families. However they do not accept unemployed people receiving unemployment benefits or stays for less than two months. Preferably 3-6 months is ideal. Accomodation, meals and pocket money provided. 
Youth For Understanding (YFU) - A non-profit educational organization which offers opportunities for young people around the world to spend a summer, semester or year with a host family in another culture.

Living in Germany
Real Estate and Resources for Staying Long Term
Auf Weidersehn Net - For the British expat living in Germany.
How to Germany - An information resource for expatriates in Germany:
The German Way - Daily life and customs in German speaking Europe.

Travelling in Germany
Accommodation & Getting Around
Deutsche Bahn - German Railways.
Germany Online - Lots of useful information for travellers and students provided by the German Embassy and the German Information Center.
Lufthansa
Munich Airport
Munich Tourist Office

Other
Culture, News...
The Berlin Wall 1961-1989
Fireball - Search engine.
German Embassy, London
German Language Course - Cactus Language offers a wide range of destinations to take up German Language Courses in Germany. Courses are available for all levels and all ages.
German News Magazine - Quarterly guide to travel in Germany.
The Goethe Institut - A worldwide, non-profit, organization promoting the German language and culture. There are 135 Goethe-Institutes in 76 countries.
The Lederhosenmuseum - View pictures and chat about short leather trousers.
94,3 r.s.2 - Berlin radio station.
RTL Deutschland - TV station. In German.
Sprachcaffe - Learn German in Germany.
TANDEM Munich - German language courses in Munich.
THESALCON - Study German in Vienna. Beside theory and communication training in class you will experience Vienna by various interactive learning actions.
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