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Hire care workers from the Western Balkans
Care homes and services across Germany are short of staff. In the Western Balkans, experienced care workers and medical-school graduates are actively looking for employers — on CandidateForce you reach them directly.
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
Care roles employers hire
Care assistantsMedical-school graduatesElderly-care staffSupport staff for care homes
In detail
Why care employers recruit in the Western Balkans
The region has a dense network of four-year medical high schools whose graduates often cannot find stable healthcare jobs at home — a rare combination of formal medical education and genuine motivation to relocate. Cultural closeness and existing diaspora communities make onboarding noticeably easier.
Assistant positions can be filled via the Western Balkans Regulation without a recognition procedure — so the time to the first working day is far shorter than the classic nurse-recruitment route. Many employers combine both: start as a care assistant, complete recognition to licensed staff on the job.
Qualifications
What to look for in care candidates
Education
The four-year medical high school is the region's standard qualification — school type and graduation year are shown on the profile.
Language level
For assistant roles A2–B1 is a workable start; licensed positions need B1–B2. Verify it in chat — you write German, the candidate reads their own language.
Experience & motivation
Hospital, care-home or home-care experience counts — and so does the reason for moving. Availability and family situation on the profile show how quickly a start is realistic.
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.
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Common questions
Typically graduates of four-year medical high schools, experienced care assistants, and staff with hospital or care-home experience in the region or the EU. Education, experience and certificates are shown on the profile.
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.
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