Application coaching with AVGS: personal, online and funded

Raise it with your placement specialist at the Employment Agency or the Jobcenter, either at your appointment or in writing. Explain where you need support in your job search and name a suitable approved program, for example JobWeg (program approval Z-001366-3). If your Employment Agency or Jobcenter has no suitable program of its own, it can issue you an AVGS. You get the details of the provider and the program from us in the initial consultation.

Without an approved voucher, you bear the costs yourself. We do not state a fixed price here. Whether coaching as a self-payer makes sense for you and what it costs, we discuss in the free initial consultation. It is often worth talking to your placement specialist about an AVGS first.

JobWeg comprises 80 teaching units (UE) of one-to-one coaching. How you spread them over the weeks, we agree with you. Your voucher sets the framework: it states the number of teaching units and the period in which you can redeem it.

Yes. JobWeg is approved as a digital program and runs entirely online by video. All you need is a computer with a camera and a stable internet connection. As a side effect, you practise exactly the situation you will meet in many application processes: the video interview.

Yes. The AVGS entitles you to choose a provider whose approved program matches the goal and content of your voucher (§ 45 para. 4 SGB III). You can find suitable offers in the AVGS search of the Federal Employment Agency. The provider submits the voucher before the program begins; that is why your coaching only starts once everything has been settled.

Ask for the reason. It often helps to describe more precisely why your applications have not worked so far and what coaching should change. Sometimes the Employment Agency or the Jobcenter also offers a program of its own that suits you. If your situation changes, for example because the search takes longer than expected, you can raise the topic again later. If you receive a written decision, it states how you can challenge it.

Yes. In that case your Jobcenter is responsible. It can fund measures for activation and occupational integration under § 16 para. 1 SGB II, including with an AVGS. Here too: it is a discretionary benefit, and the coaching only begins after written approval.

As a rule, a cover letter that addresses the job, a complete and easy-to-read CV and your most important references. In Germany, a photo is optional. In the coaching we go through, job by job, what belongs in and what can go, and bring your profile on LinkedIn or XING up to the same standard.

We talk openly about the period in question and find a short, honest way to describe it. In the interview training, you practise saying it calmly and without lengthy justification. Often it turns out that there is more in the gap than you thought, such as caring for a relative, further training or volunteering.

No, nobody can promise that. Employers decide whom they hire. The coaching improves your starting position: documents that match the job, a focused search and more confidence in the interview.