Quereinstieg Kompass
A career-pivot planner built specifically for German auto industry workers, translating 30 years of automotive skills into the language German employers in growth sectors actually search for.
Auto industry engineers, managers, and skilled workers in Baden-Württemberg and Wolfsburg facing layoffs or voluntary severance
- Skills translator that takes an automotive CV (e.g. 'Antriebssysteme-Entwickler bei Mercedes, 30 Jahre') and rewrites it for target industries like renewables, rail, medtech, or public education
- Personalised retraining pathway that maps your existing Bundesagentur and IHK entitlements onto the specific certificates you would need
- Realistic salary and timeline comparisons between staying in the auto industry and pivoting, including severance optimisation advice
- Local job matcher that surfaces openings in walking distance and flags which ones typically hire auto industry alumni
VDA projects 225,000 German auto jobs will vanish by 2035, and the SWR story about a 55-year-old ex-Mercedes manager finding satisfaction at a Volkshochschule is the template thousands of colleagues are about to follow.
VDA's May 2026 revised forecast of 225,000 lost auto jobs by 2035 is confirmed by multiple sources, Destatis reports -6.3% YoY employment in Q3 2025, and Stepstone says 64% of German employers now prioritize career changers.225.000 Jobs weg bis 2035: Autoindustrie korrigiert Stellenabbau-Prognose drastisch ↗Stellenabbau in der Automobilindustrie: 48 700 weniger Beschäftigte ↗
No automotive-vertical-specific AI pivot tool exists, but the lane is crowded: free reskillr Club, zvee.io, jobwechsel-ki.ch, plus heavy public infrastructure from Bundesagentur (free Qualifizierungschancengesetz funding), VDI Wissensforum, TAW, FORTBILDUNG24, and Transfer-X.reskillr Club - Die Community für Quereinstieg und Karrierewechsel ↗Karriere und Weiterbildung - Bundesagentur für Arbeit ↗
Weak willingness to pay: Bundesagentur für Arbeit provides free career counseling AND funds retraining via Qualifizierungschancengesetz, reskillr Club is free, and target users are precisely workers facing severance or layoffs — financially stressed. B2C price ceiling is low.Karriere und Weiterbildung - Bundesagentur für Arbeit ↗reskillr Club - Die Community für Quereinstieg und Karrierewechsel ↗
Structural transformation extends to 2035+ with EV shift, China competition, and multiple OEM/Zulieferer (Bosch, VW, Mercedes, Porsche) running multi-year reduction programs — a decade-long demand window, not a fad.VDA erwartet Abbau von 225.000 Stellen in der Autoindustrie bis 2035 ↗Wirtschaft in der Krise: Ungewisse Zukunft der Auto-Industrie - SWR Aktuell ↗
Buildable with LLM APIs plus an occupational/skills taxonomy (e.g., ESCO, WhISFR) and scraped job-ad data for growth sectors; main lift is curating an automotive-skill → target-skill translation graph, not novel AI.Transformation in der Automobilindustrie: Weiterbildungsbedarfe und ... ↗