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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.

Why choose Jena

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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”.

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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.

lächelnde Frau sitzt an Tisch mit Tablet in der Hand
12.1.2021

Career meeting for job seekers

Careers don’t just happen, they are made. Why can a good career plan be useful, when is the best time for it? Which steps are important and how do you set realistic goals? We give tips.

A man wearing a black T-shirt is sitting at a desk working on a computer.
13.1.2021

i-work applicants 2020 – Kostiantyn

This year, eleven great applications from companies in Jena and the region were received for the intercultural business award. The series presents all the candidates and shows how intercultural openness in business…

4 Frauen stehen nebeneinander auf großem Platz, halten Buchstaben in der Hand, im Hintergund Gebäude und Parkplatz
15.12.2020

A place of welcome

Enabling barrier-free access The relevant information can be found here: school and university graduates, employees and skilled workers, scientists from Jena and the region, other federal states and also from abroad. Of…

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.

We are happy to assist you!

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.

Monday9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Leutragraben 2-4
07743 Jena

Telephone: +49 3641 8730030
E-mail: jenawirtschaft@jena.de

 

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