{"id":829,"date":"2015-05-20T14:23:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T14:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jag-personal.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2015-05-28T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T10:35:18","slug":"the-two-edges-of-the-german-letter-of-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jag-personal.com\/en\/the-two-edges-of-the-german-letter-of-recommendation\/","title":{"rendered":"The two edges of the German letter of recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

\"Carta<\/a>Through the last weeks we have been sharing with all of you some posts<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in which we talked about important factors to find a job in Germany<\/a>, trying to contrast the possible existing differences between Germany and our country of origin when dealing with these issues.<\/p>\n

We want to talk today about one of the elements of the job application that least similarities keeps with its Spanish equivalent: the letter of recommendation<\/strong>, also called job certificate<\/strong> or Arbeitszeugnis<\/em><\/strong> in Germany.<\/p>\n

The Arbeitszeugnis<\/em> is a document that the employers in Germany have to give their employees once the employment relationship between both parts is terminated. This document can be of two different types: simple certificate<\/strong> (einfaches Zeugnis<\/em>), in which only the duration of the employment relation and the tasks of the employee are listed, or qualified certificate<\/strong> (qualifiziertes Zeugnis<\/em>). This second type of certificate describes in a more elaborate way the tasks the employee had had assigned and includes an evaluation of his performance. Generally, the following points are included in it:<\/p>\n