Career advisor

A career advisor (until 2012 military service advisor, WehrDstBer) is a contact person in the German armed forces for unused and re- employers for questions about military service and a career in the armed forces in the military and civilian sector.

Area of responsibility

Career advisors are the point of contact for initial information, advice and applications in the armed forces up to the point at which they start their service. It is also their job to give lectures on military service and career paths and career opportunities in the Bundeswehr in schools and educational institutions as well as in front of multipliers from politics and business.

Career counselors have no technical influence on the use. You can only advise, up to and including legal advice in the event of contradictions. Furthermore, they presented the various requirements for employment, to which certain criteria such as athleticism, mental and personal suitability correspond. These were for teams and officers in one of the eight career center of the Bundeswehr (KarrC Bw) with Assessment (AC), for officer candidate centrally at the assessment center for managers of the Bundeswehr in the Mudra-Kaserne in Cologne (formerly Offizierbewerberprüfzentrale, OPZ) tested.

While career advisors promote service in the Bundeswehr, among other things, by giving lectures, youth officers impart knowledge about the security and defense policy of Germany. Career advice is not one of their duties.

reachability

Nordsee-Zeitung (1969)

In the future, career advisors will be located in five large career centers of the Bundeswehr with assessment, three regionally subordinate career centers with assessment, 13 further career centers without assessment (also subordinate regionally). The currently 110 career advisory offices (KarrBB) and 86 location teams of the vocational advancement service (BFD) are to be combined in 113 advisory offices in the new structure of the Bundeswehr personnel recruitment organization. Some of the career advice offices are currently located in rented offices of the employment agencies . The former military service advisers were mostly in the district military replacement offices .

Use as a career advisor

A career counseling office has a different number of career counselors depending on the catchment area. These are generally one officer and two to four sergeants with portepee , but also civil career advisors. In addition to knowledge of the uses in the armed forces and everyday work, they should have pedagogical skills (“explain and inspire”) and at the same time be able to realistically assess applicants in order to avoid hopeless applications or incorrect planning.

Web links

Bundeswehr career website. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
Tobias Kliesing: At the career advisor : The application. In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de/ . November 19, 2018, accessed September 6, 2019 .

Christian Minaty / Frank Bötel: New career centers: nationwide looking for personnel. In: https://www.bundeswehr.de/ . December 15, 2017, accessed September 6, 2019 .

Individual evidence

^ Information from the Commissioner for the Armed Forces - Annual Report 2018 (60th report). In: http://dip21.bundestag.de/ . Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag , January 29, 2019, accessed on September 6, 2019 .

↑ Irina Jenrich: Desired career advisor . In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de/ . December 22, 2016, accessed September 6, 2019 .

[1] Information from the Commissioner for the Armed Forces - Annual Report 2018 (60th report). In: http://dip21.bundestag.de/ . Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag , January 29, 2019, accessed on September 6, 2019 .