Welcome to Jena:
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. The Welcome Center Jena team will be happy to provide you with personal advice.

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Junger Auszubildender inspiziert ein Messgerät — © JenaWirtschaft | Tina Peißker

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”.

Discover Jena

Menschen sitzen auf Wiese, im Hintergrund Bäume, dahinter Turm — © Stadt Jena | Jens Hauspurg

Blick auf die Innenstadt von Jena in der Dämmerung.

Welcome Blog

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

15.9.2023

Off to a promising start as a development engineer after studying in Jena

Anoop from India completed his Master’s degree at University of Applied Sciences Jena and now works as a development engineer. In the blog, he talk about how he achieved his goal despite the Corona pandemic and gives tips on the easiest way to make social connections in Jena.

07.7.2023

As as nurse to the City of Light – How Jose Christian Santos makes Jena his “home away from home”

Jose Christian Santos comes from the Philippines and now works as a nurse at Linimed GmbH. In the interview he tells us how he came to Jena, what made the city his “home away from home” and what his favourite place in Jena is.

12.6.2023

From Sarajevo to Jena – How Almedin Mujezinovic found his new home in Thuringia

35-year-old Almedin Mujezinovic comes from Bosnia and Herzegovina and now works as a bus driver for Jena’s public transport system. In the interview, he talks about the reason for his move to Jena, describes his path to the employment contract and explains how he copes with the Thuringian dialect.

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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.