Care workers
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.
What you can do on the platform
Candidate databaseSearch candidate profiles 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
Why care employers recruit in the Western Balkans
DistributionThe 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.
What to look for in care candidates
ApplicationsThe four-year medical high school is the region's standard qualification — school type and graduation year are shown on the profile.
How hiring from the Western Balkans works
HiringSearch candidate profiles by profession, experience and language level – or publish a job ad and collect applications.
Contact and interview Work permit and visa Arrival and first day
Roles
Care roles employers hire
Medical-school graduates
Elderly-care staff
Support staff for care homes
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.
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
Want the whole thing handled?
From finding candidates to testing, documentation and the visa, Balkan Recruiters runs the full service. CandidateForce stays the platform; they do the hands-on work.
Talk to Balkan Recruiters
Start hiring from the Western Balkans.
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