01 · Select with purpose
Needs analysis in your company, structured selection in Cameroon and Kenya: school records, motivation interviews, learning assessments, family conversations.
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Your partner for sustainable international talent acquisition in skilled trades, industry & care
Fill apprenticeships.Secure skilled workers.Integrate for good.
DK Zuvis wins young people from Cameroon and Kenya who have been trained to level B2 at our partner language school IVTIE and culturally prepared for Germany and supports you through to integration in your training company.
Own partner language school IVTIE in Cameroon since 2023 · Official certificates (Goethe/ÖSD/telc) · Employer pays: no costs for candidates
Network & partnerships
AHK Eastern Africa
Partnership with the Delegation of German Industry and Commerce for Eastern Africa in Nairobi
African Skills 4 Germany
AHK programme for skilled workers and apprentices from Kenya, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE)
IHK Nürnberg
Joint delegation trip to Nairobi, 2026
The starting point
69,400 unfilled apprenticeships. The gap runs right across Germany.
69,400
unfilled apprenticeship positions nationwide
54%
of the care training places offered in Germany were filled in 2023, only about half
340,000–470,000
more people leave the German labour market each year than join it
Sources: BIBB (2024) · BIBB care panel (2023) · VWT / Regional Directorate of the Federal Employment Agency (2024/25).
Sound familiar?
If you recognise any of these, you are in the right place:
- Positions stay unfilled
- Language level unclear
- Agencies disappear
- Drop-out in year 1
- Visa overwhelms
The DK Zuvis system
Four connected phases instead of one-off placements
Placement rarely fails at the selection stage, it fails through poor language quality, missing cultural preparation and missing support after arrival. That is why we work in four interlocking phases.
02 · Qualify linguistically & culturally
The heart of the system: our partner school IVTIE takes candidates from A1 to B2, with official exams, integration courses and trade-specific vocabulary.
About the school →03 · Place & relocate with legal certainty
Application management, training contract, visa under §16a AufenthG, coordination with authorities, with a clear timeline and status reports per candidate.
About the process →04 · Arrive & stay
Placement does not end at the airport: 12 months of structured integration support for apprentice and company, from the first week to the intermediate exam.
About integration →IVTIE, partner language school in Cameroon
Our candidates don't arrive with a language test. They arrive with two years of preparation.
A1 → B2 curriculum
Full-time language training from the very first German lesson to the advanced level, since October 2023.
Official exams
Goethe, ÖSD, telc, ECL, certificates instead of self-assessment, administered by experienced examiners.
Integration courses
Civic knowledge, authorities, work culture, vocational school system: Germany begins long before departure.
Trade-specific German
Construction, metal, electrical, care, vocabulary from real working life, not from a textbook.
How we work
Six steps, one point of contact
From the first conversation to well after arrival: you always know where your candidates stand and who is responsible.
Needs analysis
Which trades, how many positions, which training year, which requirements? We start in your company, not in a database.
Pre-selection
Structured selection on site in Cameroon and Kenya: records, motivation interviews, learning assessments, family conversations.
Language & cultural preparation
A1 to B2 at IVTIE, official certificate exams, integration courses and trade vocabulary, with progress reports to your company.
Application
Transparent candidate profiles with video introductions and a digital meeting between company and candidate, before any contract is signed.
Visa & arrival
Visa under §16a AufenthG, embassy appointments, translations, flight and arrival planning, coordinated with chamber and immigration office.
Integration support
12 months of structured support: first week, vocational school start, language coaching towards B2+, monthly check-ins with apprentice and company.
Result:
Sustainable employment instead of risky one-off placements.
Numbers, not adjectives
What you can measure us by
10/2023
IVTIE partner language school founded
2024
first placements to Germany
11/2025
DK Zuvis Consulting registered
6
steps, 1 point of contact
We publish retention rates and exam results as soon as they are reliable. We do not communicate blanket success rates without a data basis.
The difference
What DK Zuvis covers and where others stop
Each of these routes solves part of the problem. None solves all parts together. That gap is exactly what the DK Zuvis system closes.
Language school
- Language course up to B2
- —Trade-specific German
- —Cultural preparation in the country of origin
- —Video meetings & progress reports
- —Recruiting & pre-selection
- —Visa management §16a
- —Integration during training
- ~Continuous language coaching in Germany(partly)
Recruitment agency
- —Language course up to B2
- —Trade-specific German
- —Cultural preparation in the country of origin
- ~Video meetings & progress reports(partly)
- Recruiting & pre-selection
- ~Visa management §16a(partly)
- —Integration during training
- —Continuous language coaching in Germany
Funded programmes
- ~Language course up to B2(partly)
- —Trade-specific German
- ~Cultural preparation in the country of origin(partly)
- —Video meetings & progress reports
- ~Recruiting & pre-selection(partly)
- —Visa management §16a
- ~Integration during training(partly)
- —Continuous language coaching in Germany
Job boards
- —Language course up to B2
- —Trade-specific German
- —Cultural preparation in the country of origin
- —Video meetings & progress reports
- ~Recruiting & pre-selection(partly)
- —Visa management §16a
- —Integration during training
- —Continuous language coaching in Germany
Chambers
- —Language course up to B2
- —Trade-specific German
- —Cultural preparation in the country of origin
- —Video meetings & progress reports
- —Recruiting & pre-selection
- ~Visa management §16a(partly)
- ~Integration during training(partly)
- —Continuous language coaching in Germany
DK Zuvis
- Language course up to B2
- Trade-specific German
- Cultural preparation in the country of origin
- Video meetings & progress reports
- Recruiting & pre-selection
- Visa management §16a
- Integration during training
- Continuous language coaching in Germany
Today Douglas works in the kitchen at DEHOGA in Erfurt, his path there began with his first German lesson at IVTIE.
Best practice: Douglas, chef apprentice at DEHOGA Erfurt
Douglas's route: selection in Cameroon → IVTIE up to certificate → visa under §16a → apprenticeship start as a chef at DEHOGA in Erfurt.
Our projects
Two countries of origin, one system
Cameroonian apprentices for trades & industry
Young people with technical baccalaureate, trained at IVTIE from A1 to B2, for construction, metal, electrical and other trades across Germany.
Cameroon project →
Kenya: AHK partnership & CareBridge
Through the AHK programme African Skills 4 Germany: pre-qualified talent from Kenya for care, hospitality, IT and technical trades, for companies across Germany.
Explore the Kenya corridor →Transparent packages, no surprises
Three packages from pre-selection to full service with 12 months of integration support, employer pays without exception.
Let's talk about your open apprenticeships.
30 minutes, confidential, non-binding. We assess your situation and find possible solutions together.
Employer pays: no costs for candidates
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