FAQ

The selection process

CIM invites promising candidates to a personal interview. After this pre-selection process, we propose suitable applicants to the employer, who then decides on the basis of the application documents and CIM’s recommendation whether or not to hire the candidate.

Taking leave of absence from your current job

CIM welcomes applications from interested candidates in permanent positions who would like to take leave of absence for an assignment abroad. The decision about whether or not to grant leave must remain with your current employer, however.

Application forms

You are kindly asked to apply via the online application portal to submit an application for a specific position or a general speculative application. Please use only this procedure for your application. You will be asked for all of the data that are necessary about yourself and your qualifications. You also have the possibility of attaching documents for forwarding to CIM.

Application Portal

Technical requirements

Please note the following technical requirements for using for using the job market and online application procedure:

 

• Supported browsers: Internet Explorer 7 or höher and Mozilla Firefox 3 or higher. Problems may occur when using any other type of browser. 
• JavaScript activated
• Pop-up blocker de-activated
• Cookies enabled
• Screen resolution of at least 1024x768

 

"Vacancy expired"

If you receive this message after selecting a job offer, please deactivate Pop-up blockers and enable Cookies.

 

Login

Once you have registered, you will receive your password via email. If you copy your password from the email, make sure you don't copy any additional spaces. After the first registration you are asked to change your password. The password must be at least 6 characters long, and must contain at least one number.

 

Email has not arrived

Some email providers classify our job market emails as spam. Please check your email spam folder regularly to ensure you are always have up-to-date information on your applications.

 

Forgotten your password

Click on “Request new password” in the “Registered applicants” area of the screen, and enter the email address with which you registered.  Within a few minutes you will receive a new password, which you must change for security reasons next time you log on. 

 

Email address already registered

If this message appears, it means you have already registered with us using this email address. In this case, please go to the login area, click on “Request new password”, and request a password using your email address.

 

Uploading application documents

In addition to the fully completed online application form, we always require a covering letter, an up-to-date curriculum vitae, which you should upload via the application form as attachments.

You must observe the following restrictions when uploading documents:

+ You can only upload a total of 10 MB per application

+ Only the following file types are supported:
curriculum vitae, covering letter, other: doc, docx, pdf  and odt
photos: png, gif and jpg

+ We are unable to process zip files and any file formats not listed above

+ The following restrictions on file sizes must be observed:
covering letter and photo: 1 MB each
curriculum vitae and other: 2 MB each.

Applications that have been saved but not sent can be found on the status page under “Applications in progress”. For security reasons, any documents that have already been uploaded for applications in progress must be uploaded again before the application is sent. Applications that have been saved and sent can be found on the status page under “Applications sent”. In addition you will receive a confimation-message on your email-address.

 

Online application form

Take sufficient of time to fill in the online application form, and please answer all the questions fully and accurately. Have all the necessary documents ready (e.g. up-to-date CV and covering letter). Please also note the mandatory fields, which are indicated by an asterisk (*).Until you send it (by clicking on the “Confirm and send”-button),  it cannot be included in the job selection process. 

 

Sent applications

Once an application has been sent, you cannot subsequently change it. Please also note that once documents have been sent, they can no longer be corrected.

 

Interrupting an application and continuing at a later date

You can quit your application account at any time (by clicking on the “Confirm and close”-button), and continue filling it in at a later date.  The data you have saved so far can be accessed on the status page under “Applications in progress”. The data in your application account can only be seen by you. Neither this data nor the uploaded documents are transmitted to CIM until you have sent off your application.  

 

Receipt confirmation

After you have sent off your application, a confirmation will be sent to the email address you specified. This confirmation is automatically generated, and will reach you in only a few minutes. This indicates that your application has entered our application management system. If no email appears in your inbox, please check your spam inbox and also make sure you actually sent your application (by clicking the “Confirm and send”-button).

 

Job Minder

You can use the Job Minder function to store details of individual advertisements on the “Sent applications” page, and view them again even after the end of the publication period.  This gives you direct access at any time to advertisements that are of interest to you. Once publishing for applications has passed, you will be informed that applications are no longer possible.

 

Contact with applicants

We will make contact with you as quickly as possible if you have applied for a specific post. We may contact you by phone or by email. So please try to avoid contacting us before we have done so.

If you applied on your own initiative, we will establish active contact with you when we need to fill a specific post for which the job profile meets your qualifications. Please make shure that you filled in datas on "qualifactions" of the application form.

 

Data protection

Data protection is a high priority at CIM.  This applies particularly to the personal data of applicants and prospective employees. We do, of course, ensure that your data is transmitted securely as well as keyed and that data protection regulations are adhered to. In consultation with our data protection officer, we have implemented an authorization and data protection strategy. This means that only authorized people can access your data, and it is treated as strictly confidential. Find more information on data protection at the registration site.

 

Deleting your account

You can delete your profile and account via the menu path “Registered applicants” – “Log-in data” using the “Delete data” link.

 

Help with any other technical questions

If you have any further technical questions about your online application or registration that we have not been able to answer here, feel free to send an email to the following address:  webmaster-jobs@cimonline.de . Please send any queries in either English or German. You also may contact Ms Josefa Gomez via telephone: +49 (0)69 719121-29 during our operating hours Monday till Friday 09:00 h - 16:00 h.

Please note that we cannot accept applications or queries regarding applications at this email address or contact person.

Deadline for applications

You can apply for a vacant position for as long as it is posted on our Internet pages. There are no deadlines for applications. When a sufficient number of appropriate candidates have applied for a position, we remove it from our listings.

General applications

We are happy to consider speculative applications from suitable candidates. You will find the link to the online procedure in the right-hand navigation list. Please register and answer the series of questions in order to give us an idea of your career so far and your qualifications. More promising of success, however, are applications for specific positions that fit your particular profile. So please visit our job placement market regularly and make use of our online application portal.

Taking the family along

You may take your family along if local conditions permit. CIM pays a subsidy for school fees that may be necessary for school-age children.

Internships

CIM does not have an internship programme of its own. However, at the website of the working group “Lernen und Helfen in Übersee” (a network for recruitment for development cooperation, etc.) you will find a number of institutions that offer internships in development cooperation. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH – German Technical Cooperation – has its own programme for the coming generation of development workers.

Social security

CIM provides you with comprehensive advice and counselling concerning your social security situation during your assignment abroad. CIM provides subsidies for pensions, health insurance, insurance for reinstatement of health coverage, and nursing insurance.

Accommodation

You will want to look for accommodation that suits your personal needs. Your employer will usually help you find what you want.

Vacation and working hours

Your vacation time and working hours will conform to the standard in the partner country and will be defined in your contract. Minimum and maximum limits are specified, however, in accordance with German standards.

Early retirees and pensioners

The Senior Experts Service offers retired managers and technical experts (early retirees or pensioners) the possibility of accepting an assignment abroad as part of German Development Cooperation.

Further questions

Please bear in mind that many questions can be answered only in connection with the specific application. Following your application you will receive intensive support and counselling along with additional concrete information.