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Working and living in the City of Light.

The perfect mix: Jena offers exciting career prospects and an optimal work-life balance. Here you will find all information about working and living in the City of Light.

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Working in Jena

No matter whether you come to Jena as a future trainee, young professional, competent specialist or manager: Jena offers varied perspectives for your own career path. The location scores with fast-growing, diverse companies, high esteem of the resident companies for their employees and exciting jobs with a future.

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Living in Jena

Jena is young, colourful and diverse. In addition to exciting tasks in diverse companies, you will find a young cultural scene, varied leisure activities and beautiful nature in Jena. Here you can not only work well, but also live wonderfully. Jena is cosmopolitan, family-friendly and offers a high quality of life. Not for nothing does the city on the Saale river bears the nickname “Paradise” – derived from the inner-city “Paradise Park”.

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Menschen sitzen auf Wiese, im Hintergrund Bäume, dahinter Turm
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Blick auf die Innenstadt von Jena in der Dämmerung.

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Here you will find individual success stories about working in Jena, arriving in the city, Jena with a family, and much more.

Mann sitzt in Bürostuhl dem Betrachter zugewandt, im Hintergund Lapto, Tastatur und Bildschirm auf einem Schreibtisch
29.11.2021

Examples for an international Jena: Oleksandr Volynets and Salesforce.com Germany GmbH

Oleksandr Volynets stammt ursprünglich aus der Ukraine und arbeitet nun als Leitender technischer Angestellter bei der Salesforce.com Germany GmbH in Jena. Er berichtet uns, wie Salesforce internationalen Mitarbeitenden den Start im neuen Job und das Einleben in Jena erleichtert.
zwei Männer verputzen eine Wand, Mann im Vordergrund blickt in die Kamera und lächelt
29.11.2021

Examples for an international Jena: Sherwan Shokri und Dunkel, Veit & Heppner GmbH

How people and companies in Jena live interculturality Every year, the i-work Business Award recognises companies in Jena that are exemplary in promoting intercultural openness in the business environment. The many practical…
Eine vierköpfige Familie posiert vor einer weißen Tür
07.10.2021

When good conditions meet difficult situations

Ravi Srivastava from Malaysia tried to settle down in Jena with his family in the middle of the Corona crisis. In addition to the new culture and foreign surroundings, the lockdown presented the family with major challenges in arriving in the City of Light. In particular, the difficult conditions for his teenage children make Srivastava decide to shift the centre of his life back. He tells his story and whether it was worth coming to Jena in the blog post.
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Jena – a paradise for skilled workers.

Never been to Jena? Then it’s about time! We invite you to get to know Jena as a wonderful city to work and live in. Our work-in-jena film will give you a first overview.

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Welcome Center Jena

We are available as your contact partner for all issues relating to working and living in Jena. We are looking forward to your call at 03641 – 87 300 43 or your e-mail to welcomecenter@jena.de.

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