Berufsstart

What Berufsstart does

Berufsstart is a German job portal (Jobbörse) operated by the private publishing entity Klaus Resch Verlag, headquartered in Wildeshausen, Germany, and founded in 1965. Its core product is a niche, two-sided marketplace focused exclusively on the transition from academic study into professional careers, serving students, recent graduates, interns, working students, and trainees seeking entry-level roles, internships, and thesis positions. The platform combines a structured job-board database, deep company-profile pages, a job-fair directory, and an extensive editorial content library covering application guidance, salary benchmarking, and career planning for the German market.

The technology stack is a traditional web-based portal (no native mobile app is documented), with an applicant database (Bewerberdatenbank) that supports both free and paid employer access tiers. Job seekers access listings, salary information, and content for free, while employers pay for job postings and database search/contact rights. The platform also runs a white-label "Jobportal-Netzwerk" partner program and a recurring newsletter subscription for partner job portal operators, indicating a B2B distribution layer beyond the main Berufsstart.de site. Aggregate scale signals include 443 participating companies, 2,324+ active job listings, and salary-survey coverage built from contributions by 15,999 companies — a sizeable proprietary dataset for entry-level and trainee compensation by field, industry, and region.

Commercially, Berufsstart operates within a single-country (Germany) market and competes in a segment dominated by generalist horizontal players (StepStone, Indeed, Xing), positioning itself through specialized editorial depth, granular academic-discipline taxonomy, and partner-network reach rather than technology differentiation or capital-intensive sales. The entity is independently owned, has no disclosed investors or subsidiaries, runs with 1-10 employees, and reports no funding activity — characterising it as a small, long-running publisher-business rather than a venture-backed scale platform. Enterprise employer logos (BMW, Allianz, Bundesbank, EnBW, Vattenfall, Cargill, FERCHAU, Voith, Computacenter) indicate credibility in the corporate segment even though no pricing or contract terms are publicly disclosed.

Name

Berufsstart

Legal name

Klaus Resch Verlag

Website

https://berufsstart.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1965

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Berufsstart is a German job portal operated by Klaus Resch Verlag that connects students, graduates, interns, and working students with employers offering internships, trainee programs, and entry-level roles, supported by editorial career guidance and aggregated salary data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Job Board / Recruitment Marketplace

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD)

Keywords

• Job marketplace
• Graduate recruitment
• Trainee programs
• Internship listings
• Career portal

Headquarters

HQ city

Großenkneten

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Job Posting Services for Employers: Companies pay to post job listings and access the candidate database through the Bewerberdatenbank (applicant database) feature. The platform offers both free and paid access areas for employers to search and contact potential candidates.
2. Newsletter Subscription for Job Portals: Monthly newsletter subscription service for job portal operators (Jobportal-Inhaber) providing updates and information about the job portal program.
3. Job Alert Email Subscriptions: Job seekers can subscribe to receive job offers via email based on their search criteria, with email addresses stored for delivery of matching opportunities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Berufsstart is a German job marketplace that connects students, graduates, interns, and working students with employers offering entry-level positions, internships, trainee programs, and part-time roles. The platform provides a job search engine, company profile pages, salary benchmarking data, application guidance content, and an applicant database that employers can access for recruitment purposes. The marketplace aggregates listings from 443 participating companies and serves as a specialized early-career recruitment resource across Germany.

Product overview

Berufsstart is a German job portal platform for students, graduates, interns, and working students seeking career entry opportunities. The core offering is the Berufsstart Jobbörse (job exchange), which aggregates job listings across disciplines including engineering, computer science, natural sciences, business studies, and humanities. The platform integrates a company profile database (Firmenprofile) where employers present their history, salaries, and opportunities. Supporting products include a job fair directory (Jobmessen), salary benchmarking data (Einstiegsgehalt), application guidance content (Bewerbung), a dedicated trainee program board (Trainee-Jobbörse), and internship/working student listings. An applicant database (Bewerberdatenbank) enables authorized companies to search for candidates. The platform also publishes editorial career guidance content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Berufsstart Jobbörse Online job portal connecting students, graduates, and interns with employers offering positions in Germany. The platform aggregates job listings across disciplines including engineering, computer science, natural sciences, business studies, and humanities, with 2,324+ active listings searchable by city, region, field, and industry.
• Firmenprofile (Company Profiles) Comprehensive company profile pages providing information on company history, salaries, application tips, and career opportunities for students and graduates researching potential employers.
• Jobmessen (Job Fairs) Job fair directory listing career events across German cities and federal states, with details on participating companies and disciplines.
• Einstiegsgehalt (Entry Salary Data) Salary database providing entry-level salary information by field of study, industry, city, and company size for graduates, sourced from approximately 15,999 companies.
• Trainee-Jobbörse (Trainee Job Board) Specialized job board for trainee programs, structured entry-level positions across industries and fields of study for graduates seeking structured career-launch programs.
• Praktikum & Werkstudent (Internship & Working Student) Job listings for internships and working student positions to gain practical experience during studies.
• Bewerberdatenbank (Applicant Database) Database allowing authorized companies to search and contact job seekers, with both free and paid access tiers for employers seeking to recruit early-career talent.
• Jobportal-Netzwerk Newsletter Subscription Monthly newsletter subscription service for job portal operators (Jobportal-Inhaber) providing updates and information about the Berufsstart job portal program.

Quantifiable outcome

• Survey data from 15,999 companies provides average starting salaries for Bachelor graduates of €37,756 per year
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Jobvector: German specialist job board for engineers, computer scientists, natural scientists and physicians. Adjacent rather than direct — same enterprise employer universe but technical-vertical focus rather than career-stage focus.
• Praktikum.info: Specialist German internship listing platform. Narrower vertical than Berufsstart (internships only) but directly addresses the same German student job-seeker audience and competes for the same search queries.

Broad incumbents

• Xing (New Work SE): Leading German professional network with integrated job marketplace. Serves the same employers and reaches graduates/young professionals, though as part of a much broader career platform portfolio.
• StepStone: One of Germany's largest horizontal job boards (Klingelnberg Group). Not specialized in early-career, but absorbs graduate and internship listings from many of the same enterprise employers, competing for the same job-seeker search queries at scale.
• Indeed Germany: Global horizontal job aggregator with strong German presence and significant share of entry-level and internship search traffic. Competes for the same SEO keywords and employer job-posting budgets.

Direct peers

• Jobstairs: German graduate and career-entry job platform operating with a similar marketplace model targeting students, graduates and young professionals. Closely comparable in target segments and employer base.
• Unicum: German career platform for students and graduates combining job listings, salary benchmarking and editorial content. Overlaps significantly in audience, content format and employer customers.
• Connecticum: German career platform combining a job board with one of the largest German job-fair circuits for students and graduates. Mirrors Berufsstart's blend of listings, career events, and editorial content for early-career candidates.
• Absolventa: German job portal focused specifically on graduates, interns, trainees and entry-level candidates. Directly overlaps with Berufsstart's core value proposition, employer audience (large German corporates), and freemium SEO-driven model.
• Trainee.de (Staufenbiel/Studiumplus): Specialist German trainee-program and graduate job platform owned by Staufenbiel. Directly comparable in trainee and entry-level job vertical and employer target list.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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