7 Reasons Why AVGS Vouchers are a Game-Changer for Job Seekers in Germany
Recently, I have heard many of my friends and past colleagues talk about the increasing pressure from the internet and tech companies.
As the job market becomes increasingly competitive, job seekers are looking for ways to stand out and increase their chances of landing their dream job.
One solution that is not being well advertised in Germany is the use of AVGS (Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein) vouchers.
These vouchers, issued by the German Federal Employment Agency, offer current unemployed and job seekers access to training programs, job coaching, leadership coaching, and other resources to help them build their skills and improve their employability.
In this article, we want to share 7 reasons why you should request AVGS voucher and how did we help our clients to achieve their goals with those 7 scenarios.
Help you to secure your next job opportunity
AVGS Job Coaching provides a lot of opportunities for anyone who is currently going through a career transition.
How do we help our client with this?
We have worked with so many clients such as software engineers, data analysts, data engineers, product designers, and UX/UI designers, supporting them to land the job they desired. Before they joined the coaching, very often they have already finished their Bootcamp in a few months to a year. Yes, looking for a job for over a year is not easy, they have already lost motivation when they came to coaching, but we helped them to regain their motivation back.
Gain clarity for your next career chapter
Sometimes after a few years of working, you can feel lost, if your current career path is really what that brine the most potential out of you, or if it is what makes you feel impactful, or if you simply just grow out of your current job after years of working.
With the current technology, we can access all the information and knowledge so easily, and it seems they are always a lot of opportunities, sometimes you just need to take a step back to see what is next in your career.
How do we help our clients with this?
We help our clients to re-assess their skills, strengths, and values to transit from the academy field to the tech field.
Build an impact-driven, value-driven career plan
How do we help our clients with this?
The clients that we work with or chose to work with usually have one common sign, they all have an impact and value-driven mindset. After working with so many clients and I watched them struggle to find a value-aligned career, at the end of coaching, they walked out with a sense of fulfillment, motivation, and clarity with the plan full of personal growth and social impact.
Establish the leadership mindset with coaching technique
If you think AVGS coaching is only for people who are early in their careers or who would like to change their job direction, then you are wrong.
Why it is important to establish a leadership mindset with coaching techniques? It can improve self-awareness, enhance emotional intelligence, increase accountability, identify areas for improvement, and develop strategies for addressing them, leading to greater accountability and improved performance. Develop critical thinking skills, and understand your communication style to become more effective at sharing information, building relationships, and resolving conflicts.
How do we help our client with this?
We had worked with one client who was inspired to become a leadership coach after our sessions together. With her past work and team-leading experiences, she knew where she wanted to go, but she needed an accountability partner to push her forward.
Build a solid business plan that gets your business off the ground
A business plan helps to define and clarify your business vision.
If you are looking to build your own business, having a business plan allows you to articulate your goals, objectives, and strategies for achieving them. In the meanwhile, it also serves the purpose of risk and opportunities assessment and financial projection and a detailed budget and you can make informed decisions about your cash flow, expenses, and revenue growth.
How do we help our client with this?
I have worked with one client via our Founders Coaching program who was drafting her business plan for the investment, over the course of the time we worked together, I challenged her to build a business plan that could receive funding by knowing her number inside out of her business model.
Developing a business plan involves a comprehensive analysis of your industry, competitors, and target market. This analysis can help you identify potential risks and opportunities, allowing you to take proactive steps to mitigate risks and capitalize on opportunities.
Learn the techniques and tools to self-evaluate and unblock yourself to move forward
Working with a career coach can help you to be more self-reflective, and assessments, goal-setting strategies, mindset-shifting techniques, and guidance on effective networking and job search strategies.
Self-reflection: Career coaches often encourage individuals to engage in self-reflection exercises to gain clarity on their values, strengths, and goals.
Mindset shifting: Career coaches may use techniques to help individuals shift their mindset and overcome limiting beliefs that may be holding them back. This may involve reframing negative self-talk, developing a growth mindset, or practicing self-compassion.
How do we help our client with this?
Each one of our clients had to evaluate their self-awareness and mindset-shifting skills after finishing the coaching, and the result always surprised us with exponential growth after coaching. What we do find out that really made the biggest shifts are these two skills.
Secure your next opportunity with a digital mindset
Digitalization is not just about a tool you choose to use, it is also about the mindset and how to implement the digital mindset in the digital era. It is valuable to take training to gain skills in data and programming. However, understanding how to implement a new way of work is also important.
How do we help our client with this?
One of our clients was about to finish her UX&UI Designer Bootcamp, although she had completed her courses, she was still struggling to implement a digital mindset into her past work experiences, she previously worked in customer service for a retail shop. She had never worked in the digital sector, so it was hard for her to combine her challenges in customer service with the digital solution that she could potentially build with her new UX&UI design skills. We assisted her to implement the digital mindset and that helped her to land a junior job at B2B startup in just 6 weeks after finishing her courses.