Germany’s largest open-air job and career fair
Our jobwalk fairs 2024 in Jena, Erlangen, Leipzig and Regensburg
The jobwalk is Germany’s largest open-air job and career fair. At jobwalk, your potential applicants don’t have to come to an exhibition hall on the outskirts of town or a stuffy triple gymnasium.
At jobwalk, you meet your candidates in the open air in a central square in the city center. At the jobwalk, you meet your audience where they naturally spend their time: On a Saturday in summer in the heart of the city center in the open air. Use the jobwalk to meet employees who are latently willing to change jobs. As you stroll around and apply for jobs, you will not only meet candidates who are willing to apply and who have already come to the jobwalk as a result of our extensive advertising measures, but also those who are „latent job changers“.
These people are in the city on a summer Saturday – for shopping, a coffee or just a stroll through the city. Thanks to the central location of the jobwalk locations, these visitors become interested parties or even applicants, people who spontaneously take the opportunity to get to know your company and are often open to accepting a new challenge. They meet trainees, students and experienced professionals in a relaxed atmosphere in which it is possible to get to know each other in a relaxed manner and at eye level.
Would you like to get to know the atmosphere of a jobwalk? Then visit our„video library“ or our photo gallery and see for yourself what exhibitors and visitors have to say about this new and successful recruitment format.
Cost reduction in human resources, improved customer satisfaction and, last but not least, an increase in business results due to the higher motivation of employees – the effects of employer branding are enormous and go far beyond simply attracting and retaining employees.
How a company can identify its employer brand, how to uncover weaknesses and find out its strengths, how to differentiate itself clearly from the competition and how to define the right target groups – this practical guide by Peter Böttger explains in simple steps how you can become a successful and attractive employer.
jobwalk Jena on June 14, 2025 on the market square
Jena City of Light, the cradle of the European optics and photonics industry, is characterized by international high-tech corporations, innovative start-ups and a significant proportion of broad-based small and medium-sized enterprises. Jena is a leading high-tech center in Thuringia and Central Germany. Around a third of all employees here have a university degree, which is well above the national average of 17 percent. Well over 50 percent of exhibitors in Jena employ fewer than 250 people. Thanks to the innovative fee concept of the jobwalk, these companies can also present themselves as attractive employers to a broad target group at reasonable conditions.
jobwalk Erlangen on May 24, 2025 on the Schloßplatz
The university city of Erlangen is the birthplace of the jobwalk. Our pilot event for Germany’s largest open-air job and career fair took place here in June 2018. Due to the ban on events in 2020 and 2021, jobwalk 2025 will take place for the 6th time in the heart of Erlangen. Germany’s smallest major city has an excellent corporate structure, one of the best universities in Germany and is ranked by the Prognos Institute for years as one of the cities with the absolute best future prospects and was ranked second among the regions with the best future prospects in Germany in 2022, even ahead of Munich and Ingolstadt. Erlangen is even Germany’s leading city in terms of the best opportunities in the labor market.
jobwalk Leipzig on May 03, 2025 on the market square
The city of the „peaceful revolution“ passed the 600,000 population mark in early 2022. Leipzig is home to a total of 14 universities and one university-like educational institution (six state and nine private). A total of seven of these are based in Leipzig. Around 40,000 students study in Leipzig, which corresponds to a share of around seven percent. The jobwalk is coming to Leipzig for the second time in 2025. After a successful start for many exhibitors on August 24, 2024 on Augustusplatz, the jobwalk is now coming to Marktplatz on May 3. In an absolutely central location, up to 120 companies can present themselves to interested visitors under the motto „Stroll & Apply“. Leipzig, now disreputable as the better Berlin, looks back on a long and historically valuable history.
Over 1,000 years ago, the city began to exist at the intersection of the most important trade routes. Many important events will always be associated with the name Leipzig.
Today’s Leipzig presents itself as a dynamic economic and cultural metropolis in Central Germany. In 2022, more than 46,000 companies (IHK) with almost 300,000 employees were located in Leipzig. Despite the strong economy, almost 40,000 people capable of work are in the care of the Jobcenter. According to the job exchange Indeed, there are currently 18,800 vacancies.
jobwalk Regensburg on May 10, 2025 at Neupfarrplatz
Regensburg’s job engines – global players as well as small and medium-sized companies – ensure that the city has as many jobs as inhabitants. Qualified full employment has prevailed in Regensburg for more than 10 years.
This situation attracts many capable people. The high quality of life in Regensburg attracts numerous trainees and students to the cathedral city. Regensburg’s universities, with around 33,000 students, and the extracurricular „MINT labs“ in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology for young people at RUBINA, the House for Environment, Education, Innovation and Sustainability, are important institutions for attracting the skilled workers of the future to Regensburg. Nevertheless, around 30,000 vacancies were registered with the job centers in the Regensburg region at the end of 2024.
The patronage of Regensburg’s Lord Mayor Getrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer further underlined the importance of the jobwalk as an event to combat the tight labor market.
The jobwalk was also a magnet for small and medium-sized companies in Regensburg. Around two thirds of the exhibitors had 250 or fewer employees.
