Have you come to study at JGU from abroad or do you have an intercultural or migratory background?
Mainz University’s Career Service wants to help you enter the German job market – whether you’re exploring career options, reflecting on your professional profile, searching for internships or part-time jobs, or navigating the job search and application process to work in Germany after graduation. Feel free to take full advantage of the Career Service’s resources.
In addition, we have services created specifically for you.
We also offer opportunities for JGU students to find out about internships abroad or to study with students from universities abroad and acquire new skills.
That’s how we make career orientation international!
Find out about upcoming events in our Career Center and register directly there. With the Career Center newsletter, you will never miss an event again!
We are happy to advise you in English in our individual advising sessions. In addition, we regularly offer selected lectures, workshops, and events in English. Our Career Center website, with its information, newsletter, events, and job advertisements is also available in English.
The International Career Service Rhein-Main (ICS RM), a cooperation between the Career Services of the Rhine-Main region, primarily aims to support international students and students with a migratory background in discovering job opportunities in the Rhine-Main region and help them start a career in our region after graduation.
JGU’s Career Service is an associated member and participates in the wide range of free online and offline events on the topics of
- Career advising
- Transitioning to a profession
- Entrepreneurship
For example, there are various courses for supplementary qualifications and soft skills, job application training, expert lectures, or events such as Matching Week, where you can meet potential employers.
Participating higher education institutions
- Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
- Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
- Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
- Technical University of Darmstadt
- Hochschule RheinMain
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
(associated partner)
The FORTHEM alliance brings the students, teaching staff, researchers, and employees of nine European universities together to collaborate across languages, borders, and disciplines and facilitate European mobility in a wide variety of ways.
The offers for students include:
- ERASMUS+ funding for semesters abroad at one of the FORTHEM universities & the FORTHEM campus
- Individual short stays abroad, summer schools, or project weeks at one of the FORTHEM universities
- Digital Academy with innovative learning options and online courses on different topics
- Multicultural and multilingual learning in the Europe Forum
- International internships at the FORTHEM universities
- StartUp Day and offers on entrepreneurship
- FORTHEM labs – job experience through collaborations between teaching staff, students, and experts from the working world
- Civic engagement – projects for volunteer work and service-learning
- Course offer for supplementary qualifications, soft skills, and communication skills
Partner universities
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany (JGU)
- Jyväskylän yliopisto, Finland (JYU)
- Université Bourgogne Europe, France (uB)
- Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy (UniPa)
- Latvijas Universitāte, Latvia (LU)
- Universitetet i Agder, Norway (UiA)
- Uniwersytet Opolski, Poland (UO)
- Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu, Romania (ULBS)
- Universitat de València, Spain (UV)
Find out about upcoming events in our Career Center and register directly there. With the Career Center newsletter, you will never miss an event again!
Would you prefer to explore a new country and culture through a stay abroad or gain professional experience and insight into a field of work through an internship? Why not both?
Our digital fair “Praktika Welt-offen” is all about internships abroad. Here, you can learn more about the internships offered by various institutions. After a short presentation where all participating companies and organizations introduce themselves and their offerings, you will have the opportunity to interact directly with the exhibitors and ask any questions you may have. This will bring you one step closer to an internship in your dream country!
Find out about upcoming events in our Career Center and register directly there. With the Career Center newsletter, you will never miss an event again!
JGU’s International Office supports students in all matters related to stays abroad.
In addition to information and support for traditional study abroad programs or a semester abroad, the International Office also offers information about funding programs and options for internships abroad through the EU-ServicePoint. This lets you combine the experience of living in another country and getting to know another culture and language with valuable work experience.
JGU’s International Office advises on all matters related to stays abroad. It also provides many support services for international students
The team for university students and graduates of the Agentur für Arbeit also aims to help international students enter the German job market with support offers in English such as the Bleib! (Stay!) project.
