Matching Week

Convince your next employer in a 1:1 online interview

02.12. - 04.12.2025
MATCHING WEEK

The Matching Week is an online career week especially for students and graduates of the Rhein-Main region with an intercultural profile or migration history.

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Get to know employers
The course of the Matching Week
  • Take the opportunity to apply with your CV in German or English
  • 06.10. - 24.10.2025: Take advantage of the application period
  • October 15, 2025: Preparation workshop for writing CVs
  • 24.10. - 31.10.2025: CV checks with individual feedback
  • 02.12. - 04.12.2025: Take part in the Matching Week
  • Explore your career opportunities in one-on-one interviews online (EN/DE)
  • Talk to employers about internships, student jobs or entry-level positions
  • If you and the employer are a good match, you can gain important professional experience during your studies.
For your personal preparation
Tips for your CV

Your CV provides an overview of your personal and professional career. It is a bullet-point list of your education, training and career stages as well as your skills and knowledge.

The resume should

  • comprise a maximum of 2 DIN A4 pages
  • be up-to-date, error-free, meaningful and without gaps
  • be prepared in tabular form. The tabular form has established itself as the standard in Germany.
  • be written anti-chronologically (start with the most recent activity)
  • be a perfect fit for the position in question. Above all, choose the qualifications, knowledge and professional experience that are relevant to the position.
  • be divided into thematic blocks by means of headings
  • Include information on language skills and other skills (IT, IT, driving license or soft skills).
    Rate your language skills with the levels "basic knowledge", "good", "fluent", "business fluent" and "native speaker" and your IT/programming skills with the levels "basic knowledge", "good", "very good" and "constantly in use".

Avoid exaggeration: only include competencies and skills where you have at least advanced beginner or intermediate level.

Formal criteria of a CV

Formal criteria (recommendation):

Font sizes:
Title & Name: 20Pt
Headings: 13Pt
Text: 11Pt
Date: 10Pt

Margins & line spacing
L Page margin: 2 to 2.5 cm
R margin: 1.5 to 2 cm
Top and bottom: 2 - 2.5 cm

EXTRAS:

  • Stays abroad (intercultural experience) as well as publications, references, scholarships or awards can be relevant for the position and should be listed.
  • Optionally, hobbies, personal interests or voluntary work can be listed. It is important that these activities are specified and include (social) skills that are relevant to the position. E.g. traveling to francophone countries to learn the language or volleyball with a coaching function in club xy.
How to deal with gaps in your CV
  • Longer gaps should be avoided, but they are generally unproblematic for a period of up to six months.
  • Longer breaks should be used sensibly, for example by acquiring specialist knowledge, taking language courses, volunteering or completing internships. Longer trips during which you get to know the language and culture of a country can also serve as a "gap filler". -
  • Longer periods of unemployment should be phrased positively, such as "vocational reorientation," "seeking work," or "educational travel"
  • If there is a longer gap in the CV due to a flight to Germany, this period can be stated in years, for example as "Flight from name of country & asylum procedure" including the integration or German courses attended during this time.

To the complete application guide (German)
To the complete application guide
(Engl.)

Online course: "Application is like cinema" (Self Service, German)

This online course compares the application process with the announcement of a blockbuster: Your cover letter teases the offer you are making to your desired employer. Your CV works like a trailer and conveys information about the setting and story in 2-3 minutes. Once interest has been aroused, it's time for the blogbuster moment - the interview.

Preparatory workshops in October

At the start of the semester, we focus our workshops and training courses on the topic of applications so that you are optimally prepared for Matching Week .

Counseling Day on 02.12.2025 (Online via Zoom)

Invited to the interview?

At the Career Counseling Day on Monday, 02.12.2025 you can clarify last questions between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. We offer you last-minute counselling in German and English via breakout rooms. You will receive the link by e-mail in good time. Just take a look.
Be there

Click here to register and apply for the 1:1 interviews with employers

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