Vocational Training for Administrative Specialists in Labour Market Services

Each apprentice typically attends five vocational school blocks of 7 to 9 weeks each over the course of the three-year program.

Enrolment usually takes place after the autumn holidays, allowing apprentices to first gain initial experience at their workplace and complete basic internal training sessions.

Your first day at school

The first day of school is designated as a “form teacher day”, during which students spend the day with their designated class teacher.

This day serves two purposes:

To provide apprentices — who often come from different companies — the opportunity to get to know one another and become familiar with the school setting.

To convey important organisational information: block schedules, class and break times, exams, grading, absence regulations, and shared behavioural expectations (see “Our School”).

Your training company will inform you about the exact start time. We recommend arriving 15 minutes early to get oriented.

The training follows the official Training Framework and Curriculum Guidelines for the profession.

The vocational school provides around 1,440 hours of instruction over the course of three years, distributed weekly as follows:

Vocational training is divided into five blocks over three years.

Social Insurance: You will need a copy of the German Social Code (SGB), also used at your training company.

Accounting: The school provides the textbook for the duration of the program.

Books must be returned in reusable condition; otherwise, the replacement cost must be covered!

You work with the following book:

Legal Studies: Apprentices are required to bring their own copy of the German Civil Code (BGB).
The German Civil Code will not be provided by the school!!

Midterm Exam
Conducted halfway through the program (typically October of the 2nd year), the midterm examination consists of a written and a subsequent oral component approximately two months later.

Final Examination
The final exams take place between May 10 and July 31 of the third year. They include written and oral components.
Subject matter and duration of the written final examination (lt. § 15 der Prüfungsordnung für die Durchführung von Abschlussprüfungen im Ausbildungsberuf zur/zum Fachangestellten für Arbeitsmarktdienstleistungen):

The oral exam will be held as a simulation of a professional conversation followed by a subject-specific discussion (maximum duration: 20 minutes; preparation time: 10 minutes).

Early Final Exam
If training is shortened, written exams are held in January, before the fifth school block (January–March), meaning apprentices must study the content of this block independently.

Training companies are responsible for registering apprentices for school.

Please register your apprentices in a timely manner — ideally by the summer holidays — using our registration form.

Entschuldigungsverfahren Sozialversicherung

For students in the Social Insurance Department, absences due to illness must be excused via the training company using the school’s excuse form.

The signed form must be submitted to the class teacher immediately upon recovery.

For absences due to other reasons, prior written approval must be obtained from the school.