The Stuttgart Job Center

Equal opportunities and equal participation in working life are statutory cross-cutting goals that the Job Center strives to achieve in all areas and fields of activity. This does not only concern the equality of women and men. Neither ethnic nor social origin, gender or age may be decisive for a person's educational and participation opportunities. The Job Center's Equal Employment Opportunity  Officer (BCA) advises and supports both benefit recipients and employers as well as cooperation partners on issues of gender equality in basic benefits for jobseekers and the advancement of women. The representative for equal opportunities on the labor market will also be happy to help you.

The job center accompanies and supports jobseekers in Stuttgart on their way to a permanent job. One example: Anastasia Popovidou always wanted a real job instead of just jobs. The married woman and mother of two has been fighting for this ever since she came to Stuttgart from Greece ten years ago. With success! After part-time training, she has now arrived in professional life and found a permanent job as a forwarding agent.

The Jobcenter provides services that are existential for many citizens of Stuttgart and contribute to the social security of a society worth living in. In order to do even better justice to its responsibility to the people, the Jobcenter attaches great importance to the issue of quality management. It regularly faces up to internal and external auditors and examination procedures. Since 2017, the Jobcenter Stuttgart has been certified as a service provider in accordance with the Accreditation and Approval Regulation for Employment Promotion (AZAV).

The mission statement of the Stuttgart Job Center was developed participatively with all employees in 2015 as part of an open-space event and published at the turn of the year 2016.

Young people between the ages of 15 and 24 are at the beginning of their career planning. Many of them need orientation and support. The Stuttgart Job Center therefore focuses not only on sustainable integration into training or work, but also on creating and improving the training ability and training maturity of young people. The strategy "training before work" (standardized by law since the end of 2016) is the guiding principle of the Jobcenter Stuttgart.

Youth and career working alliance
In order to organize vocational integration processes in a needs-based, systematic and follow-up-oriented manner, it is necessary to bundle and coordinate offers in the transition from school to work. This is where the Stuttgart Youth and Career Alliance comes in.

The alliance is an alliance of the Job Center, the Employment Agency, the Youth Welfare Office and the State Education Authority with the aim of opening up a rapid transition to further education and vocational training for disadvantaged young people in particular by exploiting all their potential. To this end, better coordination is being established at the municipal level between the players involved. Coordinated planning of services in the school-to-work transition will initiate individually tailored services for young people and avoid duplication of structures as far as possible. Instead of divided responsibilities, the idea is to think and act in terms of joint responsibility. In a joint specialist office, employees from the three legal areas and the State Education Authority advise specialists on the (further) development of measures, support operational networking and identify current needs with the aim of opening up the fastest possible and most qualified support for young people.

The Jobcenter Stuttgart is represented as a set member in the various committees of the working alliance. Current developments and topics are discussed and worked on across the legal boundaries.
The contact person at the Jobcenter is:

Ms. Wolloner
Jobcenter Stuttgart
Planning U25, Youth and Career
E-mail: Sabine.Wollonerstuttgartde
Phone: +49 711 216-97042

The landscape of offers in the school-to-work transition system is characterized by a multitude of projects, initiatives and measures. The Stuttgart Youth and Career Alliance has therefore developed various tools for orientation, e.g.:

• The information portal with current offers on the topic of transition from school to work in Stuttgart:  Online-Service (opens in a new tab) Übergang Schule-Beruf bundles various offers that are available to support vocational perspectives.

Templates for voucher offers

As a municipal job center, we offer training providers and educational institutions our own templates on topics relating to voucher measures such as the activation and placement voucher (AVGS) and the education voucher (BGS).

Applications for the allocation of a measure number (AVGS/BGS):

If you redeem a voucher from the Stuttgart Jobcenter for an AZAV-certified offer, apply for the measure number at the Stuttgart Jobcenter using the following templates. The measure number issued by us is only valid for customers of the Jobcenter Stuttgart.

If you already have redeemed vouchers from customers of the Federal Employment Agency and the Jobcenter Stuttgart, please apply for the measure number at the Federal Employment Agency. The measure number issued by the Federal Employment Agency can also be used for customers of the Jobcenter Stuttgart.

Reporting absences

For all participants in voucher measures, days of absence must be reported every calendar month in accordance with § 61 Para. 2 S. 2 SGB II. Our templates are available for this purpose. If you already have tried and tested reporting procedures, you can use your own templates for reporting absences, taking into account the information relevant to us.