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Anton Trukhanenok2014-02-18 10:55:50
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Anton Trukhanenok, 2014-02-18 10:55:50

How to find a job as a requirements analyst in Germany without knowledge of German?

My profile : 6 years of experience as a business systems analyst, mostly in large Moscow companies; the last 2 years - I work remotely and as a freelancer, I am looking for clients through acquaintances in Moscow and through oDesk.
Task : emigrate to Germany.
Theoretical possibility : under the Blue Card program (Blau Karte) they give a work visa, over time - a residence permit and citizenship. It is only necessary to find a job from 40,000 EUR per year before taxes and that the employer is ready to participate a little in the bureaucratic procedure.
Practical problemencountered: almost all vacancies require fluency in German. I have only basic knowledge of German, but I am fluent in English. They have a rather closed country in terms of language, like Russia: English is not very well known, they speak German, unlike the Netherlands, Sweden and some others, where everyone speaks English tolerably. Why the analogy with Russia: when looking for a job in Moscow, they usually ask for "knowledge of English at the upper-intermediate level", but in practice the language is rarely used, everything is in Russian. It's not like that everywhere, but it usually was.
Everything is pretty well written on the tupa-germania blog , but still
How I looked for a job :
1. Started an informative profile on LinkedIn and Xing .
Many of my friends who left (to Germany and the USA) were simply found by recruiters themselves, thanks to their LinkedIn profile. Sometimes they write to me, but it always turns out to be a mass mailing, they don’t really read my profile and write non-personalized messages, as a result - zero output.
2. I wrote to e-mails like [email protected]
It's clear that spam and whatever is pouring into these boxes, it's hard to be noticed in this noise; anyway, nothing.
Such searches, of varying degrees of intensity, have so far led to zero results. I went to Germany for a visit, lived there for several months last year, but, oddly enough, even learning the language there turned out to be less effective due to the slow Internet, there was not much to communicate with neighbors - rich pensioners. I will clarify that I lived in a small resort town at a great distance from large cities (200 km from Frankfurt, 100 km from Kassel). In other words, the stereotype that one learns the language better on the spot and finds a job more easily does not always work.
I work as a remote worker - freelancer, I left Moscow for my native Minsk, where life is a little more comfortable and a little cheaper, but here I just don't like it less than in Moscow, I don't want to live here. I see the path of freelancing as a dead end both in terms of development and in terms of income, but I don’t want to get a permanent job, because. income there is even less, but in terms of development is also doubtful. In other words, I consider my "freelancing" as a temporary measure.
Ready to answer the question: "Why Germany?" So far, this is the country where I feel most comfortable.
So what do I want?Maybe I missed some option and you can tell me the right way. Or make sure that the direction is wrong and you need, for example, to develop yourself towards a developer (I once worked as a Java Developer for 3 years, after which I switched to analytics, but that was a long time ago and not true, now I can only write simple code and I don't know libraries. Or go to another country :)
Sorry if the question is not specific enough, I'm looking for ideas and opportunities. Thank you for your responses!

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enoizze, 2015-02-05
@enoizze

Anton, I believe that for a requirements analyst, the ability to communicate with business users is a key competency, and without fluency in the language it will be extremely difficult.
I think that in your case, you need to work hard on the level of German and try to gain experience working with German projects specifically so that you can bring artifacts in German in your resume. Or try to apply yourself in English-speaking countries (for example, in the same Holland they speak English more).
Definitely, it is much easier for a developer to find a job, since he has an order of magnitude less communication.

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Sergei Nedder, 2014-05-08
@Nedder

There is only one answer - learn German.
Without knowledge of the language, they can take it (or rather, with knowledge of only English), if you are some kind of very cool specialist. In addition, for Blau Karte you need a specialized technical education - i.e. some kind of crust of a TECHNICAL university in the CIS. If not, chances are minimal.
German can be learned to an acceptable level in a year. In the age of the Internet, youtube and torrents are a sea of ​​information. Uploaded books to a tablet, audio files to a phone/MP3 player, teach on the go.
I started learning German when it didn't exist, writing down ten words a day in a notebook and cramming / cramming. There is always free time, in transport, in the morning to get up an hour earlier, etc.

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