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Job search services by labour offices

Responsibility: Central Government (Federal), Federal Labour Agency

Website: http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/

Description: The employment portal aims at connecting supply and demand on the training and job markets, promoting their transparency. It provides access to databases of job offers and of job seekers, and furthermore features an innovative matching application to help job seekers identify opportunities more easily.

Professional qualifications

Legal information system (incl. information on the regulated professions)

Responsibility: Centre for German Legal Information; Federal Foreign Office

Website: http://www.cgerli.org/

Description: This website offers a comprehensive and freely accessible database of electronic materials on German law. It brings together English translations of court decisions, legislation, articles and other law-related documents scattered over the internet and adds them to our own collection of German legal information.

Taxes, unemployment and benefits