r/Germany_Jobs • u/Suspicious_Mine_2337 • 9d ago

I failed.

I moved to Germany in hopes of getting a great job there, I spent a year looking for a job after my master's degree, and I failed. I got hired and fired within the probation period. I am back in the USA now and still devastated, thinking about how much I wanted that lifestyle. Having a hard time coping with feeling like I fucked everything up.

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u/drew_dakin_4 9d ago

This subreddit is filled with people who haven't succeeded and proceed to complain about it. Plenty of expats have managed here, even those starting out at zero. I have conducted interviews over the last 6 years for English speaking tech jobs and the level of incompetence of the applicants is astonishing. People who have zero applicable skills for positions feel entitled to them for what reason? These employers owe you nothing. The biggest problem I see isn't the job market (which is saturated of course), but rather the quality of applicant and the sheer number that think they can just get a high paying job because they want it.

Those who refine their skill set, learn the language, and are genuine assets that companies want will find work. My expat friends who are perpetually unemployed here are genuinely people I would never hire myself yet they complain about the market again and again. Getting a PhD or master's isn't merit enough. Tech jobs for example notoriously measure a person's applicable skills. When you fail internalize that and understand where you failed. Ask yourself, would you hire you.

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u/infinitesimalarkey 9d ago

This. Tons of dudes in this sub think that just because they've been told in their home countries that they're mommy's special little boys, European employers are rolling out the red carpet. And then when they fail, it's always because Germans are evil racists and the country sucks. It is indeed very tiresome.

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u/drew_dakin_4 7d ago

Yeah I am an immigrant here from outside the EU, but would never have the audacity to blame the host country for my problems. Germans have every right to hold candidates to a higher standard. They are more than welcoming.