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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.

junger Mann mit schwarzen Haaren, Brille, Oberlippenbart, im Hintergrund die Skyline der Stadt
31.3.2021

“People have always helped me.”

In the middle of the Corona pandemic, 26-year-old Hitesh Jayaprakash signed his employment contract in Jena. The Indian-born student had already moved to the city on the Saale three years earlier.
A woman sits at a desk and advises a second, male person who has his back turned to the camera.
01.3.2021

Is job hunting purely a matter of luck?

A recruiter sits in front of a huge pile of applications. He takes the first twenty and throws them in the bin, unseen. His reasoning: “They’re unlucky and we don’t need unlucky people.” As this little joke shows, the start of an application process is a bit of a challenge. What is luck in this? What is skill? What can I influence and what not?
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…

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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