About 8% of young people in Germany have problems entering the labour market. JOBLINGE – initiated by The Boston Consulting Group GmbH und die Eberhard von Kuenheim Stiftung der BMW AG – brings together stakeholders from the public and the private sector as well as civil society in order to help these young people to integrate into the labour market.
In the six months JOBLINGE programme, young people acquire key competences in on-the- job trainings. They are accompanied by the JOBLINGE staff and voluntary trained mentors. 65 % of the young people find an employment or enter an unsubsidized vocational training programme within a company after they finish the JOBLINGE programme. JOBLINGE is organised through local charitable limited companies (gemeinnützige Aktiengesellschaften – gAGs). Shareholders are companies, the public sector, foundations and individuals. The local charitable company (gAG) is managed by a social entrepreneur and controlled by the Supervisory Board members of the participating companies. All those involved use their networks in order to establish cooperations with companies which are ready to take on JOBLINGE participants as apprentices or employees.
Richard Gaul, Honorary Board of Joblinge, is the owner of Zehle-Gaul-Communications. Between 1985 and 2006, he was head of communications and head of public affairs at BMW.