Professional Measures - Education Vouchers

Professional Measures at LANES in Duisburg and Düsseldorf serves professional integration or reintegration. Professional measures are taking place according to § 45 third book of Sozialgesetzbuch namely SGB II .The term professional measure originates from the German employment promotion law.

The Education Vouchers "Bildungsgutschein" are issued by the Agentur für Arbeit. The aim of Vouchers is to train people with new skills in order to find a new career path or job. If you're unemployed (or soon to be), you may be eligible to receive one. Once you’re issued with the voucher, you’ll need to take the course within the timeframe specified.

This term refers to a program for people who are unemployed and need help with integration or reintegration in the employment market . Depending on the individual requirements, the measure is financially supported or remunerated by the Job Center namely Employment Agency. Persons who are registered as unemployed with the Employment Agency can apply for an Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein / Bildungsgutschein (AVGS) at the Employment Agency or the Job Center. With this voucher you can use the services of private employment agencies. Furthermore, this measure also offers the option for people who can lose their job in near future and also for people who are in search for an apprenticeship position. Professional Measures are pursuing the aim to prepare the participants in the best possible way for german Job market. Often the participants are very uncertain due to personal difficulties and do not have the strength to take care of their Occupation Independently in the German employment market.

Methods and Opportunities of the professional measures

This measure uses numerous methods to adequately support participants in their individual needs, talents and interests. With the help of these employment market policy the chances of the individual participant in the job market should be encouraged.Participants will be educated about their opportunities in the employment market and they can prepare for forthcoming job searches within this measures. For example, the participants prepares his all application Documents with the help of the trained specialist staff and can train their behavior in upcoming job interviews.The various funding instruments include qualification measures, which serves as promotion for further vocational training.

In addition,instruments for the promotion of private placement, individual development planning within the scope of placement budget and training measures can be used.

Thereby there is not only one model but variety of them, where each of which is tailored according to the different requirements of the participants.