Your Final Year!

During the winter semester, a mandatory information meeting will be organised providing information and guidance for the application process. You will be informed about the date.

Slides from the information meeting students

Checklist

1. Preparation Steps

• Attend mandatory information meeting
• Fulfil prerequisites for admission
• Find industrial company
• Find academic supervisor

2. Application for Admission via Form Sheet

• Fill-in section with your personal data of the form sheet.
• Fill-in section with company data and duration of the internship and sign it.
• Get signature from your academic supervisor
• Submit your form sheet to the MSE examination office
• Your internship will be registered in my.h-da
• Get confirmation that the prerequisites are fulfilled from the MSE examination office
• If required by the company, request the mandatory internship certificate here:
  https://form.jotform.com/240441310923040

3. Execution

• Execute your BPP internship in the company.

4. Acknowledgement of the Internship

• Submit your internship report to your academic supervisor. Here you find a guideline for internship reports.
• Submit a certificate of you company to your academic supervisor.
• Your academic supervisor will acknowledge your successful execution of the BPP internship

You may use the following starting points to find open positions:

• Joboffers received at the faculty can be found https://eit.h-da.de/studium/studienbetrieb/stellenangebote/
• Companies jobportals - especially bigger companies will offer this service
• The H-DA job portal
• The following portal especially for master thesis: www.die-masterarbeit.de
• General job portal like Stepstone or Monster (sometimes the offers are not up to date, unfortunately)

And last but not least every student has the option to look for international positions, e.g. in your home country.

Although there is no "the one and only right way" on how to write an application, there are many mistakes which should be avoided when applying at a German company.

The most important rule is: Be specific.

• Why do you want to work for THIS company.
• Why should the company select YOU.

Inform yourself upfront about the company and the position. Try to meet the company representatives. Pick up the phone and try to talk to them before you apply. Avoid flowery statements in the cover letter and mention only those aspects which are relevant for this position. Never copy and paste application letters, every letter has to be unique! The letter is a buisiness letter, format it accordingly. Avoid spelling and grammar mistakes.

Some useful documents:

Training Material from the Intercultural Forum

Applying for an Internship

Recommendations on Writing the Application Letter

Recommendations on Writing the CV

The report for the BPS and Master Thesis are official examination documents and therefore should be written with the same care. Please read the following guideline document carefully before starting to write your report.

 Guidelines for BPP Report and Master Thesis

Both, the BPP internship and the master thesis are mandatory components of the study program and therefore are not considered as work ("Erwerbstätigkeit"). This means, that any working limitation (typically 120 days per year) is not considered for the BPP and master thesis.

Please requests confirmations for the foreigners office at the SSC international@h-da.de

Additional information can be found here:

• DAAD Info Erwerbstätigkeit
• Verordnung über die Beschäftigung von Ausländerinnen und Ausländern, Teil 3 § 15