Understanding one’s strengths and potential helps in creating a personalized applicant profile. It is also helpful to include the individual’s non-work-related interests and activities. If necessary, a migration-specific skills assessment can help identify informal competencies.
To integrate immigrants into training and the workforce, it can therefore be helpful to first talk with them about their strengths. To this end, the Research Institute for Corporate Training (f-bb) gGmbH, in collaboration with the Bertelsmann Foundation and seven social welfare organizations, has developed competency cards tailored to the needs of both migrants and counselors. They visualize clients’ competencies and form a foundation for the further counseling process. The competency terms have been translated into seven languages.