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Bilingual candidates
Reach bilingual candidates in Germany
Publish your job ad where bilingual candidates are actually looking: CandidateForce reaches candidates from the Western Balkans who are learning or already speak German – and filters profiles by language level.
Platform
What you can do on the platform
Post jobs and collect applications
Manage the hiring pipeline
Message candidates directly
Message candidates in their language (auto-translated)
Schedule and run interviews
Track status from first contact to start
Roles
Language combinations you can reach
German + Bosnian/Croatian/SerbianGerman + AlbanianGerman + MacedonianGerman + English
In detail
Where to publish your job ad
Classic job boards only reach people who are actively searching – and rarely filter by language. A candidate platform with language levels in the profile turns that around: on CandidateForce, candidates from the Western Balkans state their language skills in a structured way, from German (A1–C1) to English. Your job ad reaches exactly the people who connect your customers' language with your team's language.
Bilingual employees are especially valuable when your company already employs colleagues from the Balkans, serves international customers or regularly onboards new workers: they translate day to day, shorten onboarding and hold the team together. Publish your job – or search the database directly by profession plus language combination.
Registered on regional portals
Workers create their profiles on connected Western Balkan job portals, not scraped from elsewhere.
Complete profiles only
Candidates appear once their profile reaches the required completeness, so the data is usable.
Experience and qualifications
Work history, language level, driving licences and certificates are visible on each profile.
Process
How hiring from the Western Balkans works
- 1
Search or post a job
Search candidate profiles by profession, experience and language level – or publish a job ad and collect applications.
- 2
Contact and interview
Message candidates directly. Chat translation bridges language barriers, and you schedule interviews right from the platform.
- 3
Work permit and visa
After the offer you provide the employment contract and, if needed, pre-approval from the Federal Employment Agency; the candidate applies for the visa.
- 4
Arrival and first day
Once the visa is issued the candidate relocates. Plan a realistic 3–6 months from first contact to the first day of work.
Work permit
The Western Balkans Regulation: the simplest route to a work permit
The Western Balkans Regulation (§ 26 (2) BeschV) opens the German labour market to citizens of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania for any job – no formal recognition of qualifications required. What is needed is a concrete job offer and approval from the Federal Employment Agency; currently 50,000 approvals are available per year.
As the employer you provide the job offer and the employment contract; the candidate applies for the visa at the German embassy in their country. For professions with recognised qualifications, the skilled-worker visa or the EU Blue Card are alternatives. You can run the visa process yourself – or hand it over to our partner Balkan Recruiters.
See visa process supportFAQ
Common questions
On CandidateForce you publish your job ad for free and reach candidates from the Western Balkans who are learning or already speak German. You can also use candidate search to filter profiles by profession and language level (e.g. German B1 + Bosnian).
Managed recruitment
Talk to Balkan Recruiters Prefer not to recruit yourself?
Our partner Balkan Recruiters can handle sourcing, pre-selection and the visa process for you.
Start hiring from the Western Balkans.
Search candidates and post your job on CandidateForce, free to start.