You have to make your professional recognition step by step and in the right order.
My name is Gaurav Kumar and I’m a motor vehicle mechatronics technician.
I’ve learned the profession in India. But Germany is famous for its cars.
To work here and to improve myself: That was my dream.
I looked for an employer in Germany and applied for recognition.
Unfortunately I only received partial recognition.
I asked ProRecognition what I could do with that.
We’re from the Indian ProRecognition team and are based at the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce in Pune.
From here we advise skilled workers on all questions relating to recognition ...
and we support them as they go through the process of migrating to Germany.
For Mr Kumar, we identified he had to do refresher training.
A four-month placement at a business in Germany.
I thought to myself, no problem. After all, I’m good at my job.
We then advised Mr Kumar and his employer on preparing a training plan ...
and helped with the visa application.
I totally underestimated the problem with the language.
With the visa, I travelled to Germany immediately. It’ll all work out, I thought to myself.
Unfortunately it didn't. Without the language skills, it’s hard to work here.
So I returned to India but I did not want to give up.
I knew I had to learn German. That’s what ProRecognition had recommended.
Gaurav Kumar had shown me he was really interested in Scania. And that he had a plan.
We had a look. Did we want to support him in his endeavours? We decided we did.
Everything did work out second time round. And we’re pleased too.
I’ve now been at Scania for one year.
I got the recognition and I have a permanent contract.
He’s integrated really well and is part of the team.
We’re impressed with every aspect of his assembly work. We’re very happy with him.
The people here love their work and the teamwork is great.
And my teammates really support me a lot.
I made things harder for myself than they needed to be.
My tip for anyone wanting to apply for recognition:
Definitely get advice first before you start recognition!
And start to learn German! Then, everything becomes possible.