Job ap­pli­ca­tion tips

If you have found a job vacancy at Saarland University that you are interested in, then why not apply? We'd love to hear from you!

Your application will give us a first impression of you as a potential employee. We will take a careful look at your application to see whether your knowledge, skills and experience fit well with the job you're applying for. Putting together a good job application takes time, but it's time well spent. 

We've put together a list of tips that will help you prepare a job application that gets you noticed and will help you make the best possible impression at interview. 

The very first thing you need to do is save a copy of the job listing because we remove them from the website once the application deadline has closed. You will probably want to refer to the original job advertisement when preparing for interview. 

Your application portfolio

Each job will have its own special requirements in terms of experience, knowledge and skills. But even if you don't match all the specified requirements exactly, you may still be the right person for that position. 

When we look at your application, we'll take your entire profile into account. Your work experience, professional skills and expertise are important, but so are your motivation and enthusiasm for the job being offered. To help you present yourself in the best possible light, we have compiled a list of the important components that you should include in your application. 

Important note: Please merge all your application documents into a single PDF file. This file must not exceed 20 MB in size, as this is the maximum email attachment size for many email programs. Free tools to merge several files into a single PDF document are available on the internet. To find them, simply type 'merge PDF' into your search engine. If the size of the merged file is greater than 20 MB (possibly because you made high-resolution scans of your documents), these PDF converter tools will usually allow you to compress the size of the merged file. 

The interview

We were impressed by your application and would now like to get to know you better by inviting you to interview. To give you a better idea of what the interview process involves, we've compiled some useful information on interview preparation, the structure of a typical interview and what happens afterwards.