Your start into professional life at the city of Hilden!
With our diverse and varied range of tasks, we open up a wide spectrum of opportunities for you and you will find the training profession and course of study that suits you:
Would you like to be in close contact with people every day in the citizens' office or the library? Or does the challenge of demonstrating your analytical thinking in the application of legislation in various offices appeal to you? Perhaps you would also like to handle complex IT projects in the information technology department or contribute your commitment to the fire and rescue service to save lives and put out fires?
We offer exciting career fields in the areas of administration, social services and education as well as technology - matching your interests and skills!
The application deadlines for the 2025 recruitment year run until December 2024.
But you do not want to do without your own income?
Do you like to organize and want a versatile job that never gets monotonous?
In addition, you are outgoing and want to bring your social skills into your professional activities?
Then the dual Bachelor of Laws degree program is just right for you!
During and after the dual study program, you will have the opportunity to actively shape the future of our city, to take on responsibility and to contribute your ideas and skills. We offer a crisis-proof professional perspective in which you can take on specialist and later even management tasks in a wide range of areas and offices on your own responsibility as an expert in the field of law.
Even during the dual study program, you will enjoy all the advantages of an appointment as a civil servant with revocable status as well as the benefits of paid studies in the course network at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration (location: Duisburg).
You will complete the varied practical phases during your dual study program in the areas of personnel & organization, finance, order & safety, and social affairs, among others, and thus get to know the city of Hilden in all its different facets.
The dual study program begins on September 1 and lasts three years.
For additional information about the Bachelor of Laws program and the course of study, please visit www.hspv.nrw.de.
Salaries of candidates:
Remuneration is paid in the form of a candidate's salary. These currently amount to around € 1,555 gross per month. Low taxes are payable; civil servants are exempt from social security contributions.
You must have the prerequisites for the dual study program:
High school diploma or full technical college entrance qualification (theoretical and practical part)
German citizenship or citizenship of an EU member state
At the end of the training, the applicant must not have reached the age of 42 in accordance with § 14 LBG NRW (the age of 45 applies to severely disabled applicants or their equals).
After successful participation in the selection process, we check your health suitability (within the framework of an official medical report) as well as your criminal record (on the basis of the certificate of good conduct).
But you do not want to do without your own income?
Do you like to plan and organize , are you good with numbers and can you imagine working on challenging and complex business issues?
Then the dual Bachelor of Arts degree program is just right for you!
During and after the dual study program, you will have the opportunity to actively shape the future of our city, to take on responsibility and to contribute your ideas and skills. We offer a crisis-proof professional perspective in which you can take on specialist and later even management tasks in a wide range of areas and offices on your own responsibility as an expert in the field of administrative business administration.
Even during the dual study program, you will enjoy all the benefits of an appointment as a civil servant on a revocable basis as well as the advantages of paid studies in the course network at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration (location: Duisburg).
You will complete the varied practical phases during your dual study program in the Main and Personnel Office, the Office for Financial Services, the Office for Social Affairs and Housing, and for example also at the Central Construction Yard (cost accounting) and thus get to know the City of Hilden in all its different facets.
The apprenticeship starts on 01 September each year and lasts three years.
For additional information about the Bachelor of Arts program and the course of study, please visit www.hspv.nrw.de.
Salaries of candidates:
Remuneration is paid in the form of a candidate's salary. These currently amount to around € 1,555 gross per month. Low taxes are payable; civil servants are exempt from social security contributions.
You must meet the formal requirements for the dual study program:
High school diploma or full technical college entrance qualification (theoretical and practical part)
German citizenship or citizenship of an EU member state
At the end of the training, the applicant must not have reached the age of 42 in accordance with § 14 LBG NRW (the age of 45 applies to severely disabled applicants or their equals).
After successful participation in the selection process, we check your health suitability (within the framework of an official medical report) as well as your criminal record (on the basis of the certificate of good conduct).
Do you want to learn a profession that can lead you into a variety of professional fields after your training?
Are you interested in legal contexts and working with laws?
Would you like to get in direct contact with our citizens and be helpful to them?
Then an apprenticeship as an administrative clerk (city secretary candidate) is just the right thing for you!
During your training, you will pass through a wide variety of offices and thus be confronted with new tasks every day.
These tasks include processing applications, consulting with citizens and processing payment transactions. The necessary specialist knowledge is taught in blocks at the Studieninstitut in Düsseldorf.
This perfect match between theory and practice opens up a wide range of opportunities and fields of activity in almost all areas of public administration for you after completing your vocational training. During and after your training, you will have the opportunity to actively shape the future of our city, to take on responsibility and to contribute your ideas and skills.
During your training, you will already enjoy all the benefits of an appointment as a civil servant on a revocable basis.
The apprenticeship starts on September 1 and lasts two years - perfect for a quick and solid start to your career.
Salaries of candidates:
Remuneration is paid in the form of a candidate's salary. These currently amount to around € 1,500 gross per month. Low taxes are payable; civil servants are exempt from social security contributions.
You must meet these formal requirements:
At least secondary technical school leaving certificate
German citizenship or citizenship of an EU member state
At the end of the training, the applicant must not have reached the age of 42 in accordance with § 14 LBG NRW (the age of 45 applies to severely disabled applicants or their equals).
After successful participation in the selection process, we check your health suitability (drawn up as part of an official medical report) as well as your criminal record (based on your certificate of good conduct).
Do you have technical and manual skills and enjoy working in a team?
You are physically fit and able to work under pressure and have a quick grasp?
Then the training to become a fire chief is just right for you!
The profession of fire chief / fire officer in the fire department of the city of Hilden offers a versatile, varied and exciting job with special challenges.
The city of Hilden has a volunteer fire department with over 100 volunteers and 70 full-time firefighters, as well as 12 rescue workers. It consists of two watch departments, each of which is on duty in 24-hour shifts.
The classic tasks of the fire department include fire prevention and technical assistance. Furthermore, the Hilden fire department is also responsible for providing rescue services. In addition to the diverse operations, the maintenance, testing, care and upkeep of the equipment and vehicles as well as training and sports are part of the everyday service.
In the course of the training you will deal with the following topics: General and subject-related basics (e.g. civil service law, organization of the fire department, basics of physics, extinguishing agents, construction), vehicle and equipment knowledge, respiratory protection, operational theory (fire fighting, technical assistance), and preventive fire protection. In addition, you will be trained as a radio operator, engine operator and paramedic.
Training to become a fire officer takes 18 months; a new training year starts every six months. The basic training takes place at the district fire brigade school in Mettmann. The subsequent practical training takes place at the Hilden fire station.
The training takes place in the civil service relationship for revocation.
Salaries of candidates:
The candidate salary is currently around €1,500 gross per month. You will also receive a special supplement of approx. 1,350 euros/month (gross).
You must meet these formal requirements:
The age limits under career law apply in accordance with § 14 of the State Civil Service Law for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (i.e. unless an exception applies, you must not have reached the age of 42 before the end of the training period).
At least secondary school leaving certificate after grade 10
Successful completion of a journeyman's examination in a craft suitable for firefighting service or a correspondingly conducive completed training course (e.g. state-certified paramedic or emergency paramedic).
Possession of German citizenship or citizenship of an EU member state
Possession of driving license class B (formerly 3)
Desirable in addition:
possession of the driving license class C1 or C (formerly 3 or 2, respectively)
participation in a volunteer fire department or other aid organization
After successful participation in the selection process, we check your health suitability for the fire and rescue service (prepared as part of an official medical report) and your criminal record (based on the certificate of good conduct).
You have empathy, flexibility and the ability to work in a team?
Then become an emergency par amedic with the city of Hilden and make our team complete!
The main task of the emergency paramedic is to determine the patient's state of health by acting independently at the scene of the emergency, to carry out situational medical measures at the scene and to maintain vital bodily functions until a doctor arrives.
The training lasts three years and, in addition to emergency medicine, includes an increased focus on social skills. The theoretical content is taught in block units at the Mettmann Training Academy; practical training takes place in the Hilden training rescue station and in the hospital. The working hours during the training include shift work and, if necessary, night duty.
Due to the contact with people with serious illnesses and injuries, sometimes with fatal outcome, a physical and mental resilience must be present. Due to the irregular assignment or break times, a high degree of flexibility and motivation is essential.
During and after your training, you will have the opportunity to take on a responsible task with a lot of variety and to contribute your social skills in contact with the citizens as well as in the team.
The training allowance is based on the TVAöD - Pflege and currently amounts to:
1st year of training: 1,340.69 euros (gross)
2nd year of training: 1,402.07 euros (gross)
3rd year of training: 1,503.38 euros (gross)
Additional services:
Capital-forming benefits in the amount of 6.65 euros
Final bonus of 400.00 euros for passing the final exam at the first attempt
You must meet these formal requirements:
Reaching the age of majority in the month of the start of training
School education: At least secondary technical school leaving certificate
Good grades in the subjects German, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology are desired
Good knowledge of German
Health suitability for the activity in the rescue service
Possession of driving license class B
Desirable in addition:
Possession of driving license class C1 or C (formerly 3 or 2, respectively).
Participation in a volunteer fire department or other auxiliary organization
After successful participation in the selection process, we check your health suitability for the fire and rescue service (prepared as part of an official medical report) and your criminal record (based on the certificate of good conduct).
With empathy and curiosity for the smallest in our city:
Would you like to accompany children gently and appreciatively on theirdevelopmental path?
Are you motivated to join a team and work together to encourage children to take ownership of their world?
Do you want to learn the pedagogical basics for valuable work with children?
Then you have decided on a lively and responsible profession and the only thing missing is a practical partner: decide on an integrated training position as an educator with the city of Hilden!
The practical training takes place in one of our municipal family centers or our municipal day care centers.
During the training you will learn under supervision the responsible and lively tasks of working with children.
The school education takes place at the vocational college of your choice; you must apply for a school place independently and separately from the application procedure with the city of Hilden.
The vocational schools / vocational colleges will conduct an admission interview with you, check the admission requirements and issue you with a certificate of this. The admission requirements are:
A technical secondary school leaving certificate and at least two years of relevant vocational training or
Advanced technical college entrance qualification in the field of social and health care or
Complete entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences and a relevant professional activity of at least one year in an institution suitable for the course or
University entrance qualification (e.g. general higher education entrance qualification) or non-relevant vocational training and a relevant internship with at least 240 working hours (e.g. in a daycare center) and
Confirmation of admission to the vocational college
The training allowance is based on the TVAöD - Pflege and currently amounts to:
1st year of training: 1,340.69 euros (gross)
2nd year of training: 1,402.07 euros (gross)
3rd year of training: 1,503.38 euros (gross)
Additional services:
Capital-forming benefits in the amount of 6.65 euros
Final bonus of 400.00 euros for passing the final exam at the first attempt
You must meet these formal requirements:
Certificate of admission from the vocational college (initially a provisional certificate of admission is sufficient, the final certificate of admission must be available at the start of training)
Proof of required measles vaccinations or measles immunity.
After successful participation in the selection process, we also check your health suitability (as part of a company medical examination) and your criminal record (based on your certificate of good conduct).
It was clear to me a long time ago that I wanted to become an educator. In the past, I always enjoyed looking after my neighbors' children and family members. I also completed many different internships in various educational institutions during my school years. This made me realize that working with children gives me great pleasure and that I would like to train to become an educator. Through this profession, you get to know many families with different social and cultural backgrounds and work with them in partnership. I find this very interesting and a lot of fun. I was also fascinated by the fact that I would be a part of the children's future and would actively help shape it.
I attend the Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Schule and complete my practice-integrated training as a state-certified educator there. The training usually lasts three years. In the first year of training, you spend three days at school and two days in practice. In the last two years of training, you only spend two days in school and three days in practice. There are four teacher visits per training year, where the teachers come to the facility to participate in projects, educational activities, etc. and evaluate them.
Training with the city of Hilden gives me a lot of pleasure. The city of Hilden is a secure employer and offers many reasons to start training with it. Equal opportunities and diversity, a wide range of development opportunities and the possibility of being taken on were decisive factors in my decision to apply. Travel costs to school are also covered. Once a year, there is a company outing in which all employees of the city of Hilden take part.
I am completing my training at the Kunterbunt Municipal Family Center. The daycare center works according to the open concept, which gives me the opportunity to test myself in different functional areas, to further my education and to directly apply learned knowledge. I have the chance to plan and implement projects as well as direct and indirect offers. My colleagues are always at my side with their pedagogical expertise.
I feel very secure in the team and have been warmly welcomed. Under these circumstances, it's easier for me to develop and learn new things.
After I graduated from high school, at least one rough direction was clear: university. During my first degree, however, I realized that I was not the type of person for full-time study. I often lacked the clear direction, the course community and the good accessibility of teachers that I had enjoyed in school and now missed in university studies.
So I started looking around for something new. My strengths are in office work and organization. I like to analyze things and at the same time I would describe myself as outgoing and sociable.
I wanted to learn a profession that would keep all doors open for me, as I don't see myself in the same place for the next 40 years, but which would also offer me a lot of security in the future. During my search, I then found the dual study program "Bachelor of Laws" with the local authorities.
The more I got involved, the more enthusiastic I became about the dual study program. Combining theory and practice, being a civil servant while still in training, receiving generous salaries as a candidate, and studying in a fixed, small group of courses at a university where the course of study is clearly defined?
This fulfilled all my wishes for a course of study and also for my professional future. I applied and to my delight I was allowed to start the dual study program at the city of Hilden.
The course of study takes place in four blocks at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration. The four practical phases in the individual offices are spent at the Hilden city administration. The individual modules of the program focus on public law, but economics and social sciences are also covered. Almost every module ends with an examination (written exam, professional discussion, term paper).
The block model allows you to concentrate on the theoretical content and exams during the study phases and fully on the work during the practical phases. I think the alternation of theory and practice is great, because it's never too much of one.
During the varied practical phases in the various departments of the Hilden municipal administration, you can test out which areas of responsibility suit you and which do not. This is a good way to decide which direction to take after graduation.
What also convinced me about the dual study program is that you don't have to commit to one department for the future. I can later start in the finance department, move to the human resources office or the public order office and many other offices. The opportunities for advancement are also great, because experts are needed in practically every department. So the prospects for the future are good, and they convinced me personally.
As part of my second year of studies, an exciting opportunity arose for me to complete an internship in our twin city Nové Město nad Metují from June 26 to July 04, 2023. I had already previously expressed my interest in this opportunity, as the importance of the partnership is clearly felt both through regular exchanges and the presence of Nove Mesto Square in Hilden.
Before I left, I found out about the size of the twin town and learned that compared to Hilden with its 58,100 inhabitants, Nové Město nad Metují is significantly smaller with 9,500 inhabitants. This difference is also reflected in the number of municipal employees. While Hilden has 1,019 employees, Nové Město nad Metují only has around 130 employees, including the technical relief organization and the municipal police.
During my stay, I got to know not only the administration, its employees, but also the way they work. Every day I was assigned to a new department and went through their classic work assignment with them. Thus, for me, every day was marked by uniqueness and incredible variety.
One of my personal highlights was accompanying the city police. I was picked up by them in the morning and was allowed to accompany them on their inspection tour. In the process, I had the chance not only to visit the schools, but also to get to know a homeless shelter in the forest and talk to the three residents. On another day, I accompanied the social welfare office to a refugee home for Ukrainian women and children, where both gratitude and emotionality were palpable. The latter was especially palpable through the vast quantities of cleaned food cans. The cans are collected by the women and processed into candles with the help of cardboard, wax and wood. On the already finished candles one could see pictures and sayings painted by the children. The candles are picked up at regular intervals by a volunteer, who in turn takes the candles to the war front and thus to the husbands and fathers. I was also particularly fascinated by Nové Město nad Metují's commitment to sustainability, which is also due to its limited financial resources. At the technical relief organization, comparable to our building yard, I got to know a garden facility where flowers are grown from seeds or cuttings in greenhouses and beds. The flowers were not only found in the flower boxes of the town hall, but also in the famous flower clock, of which, by the way, there are only two in the whole Czech Republic.
During my stay, I got used not only to the Czech serenity, but also to the extraordinary hospitality. The employees enthusiastically told me about their work and, despite the language barrier, were always eager to explain everything to me and involve me. It was extremely interesting to learn how the administration in Hilden and Nové Město nad Metují are similar in their joint efforts to ensure efficient and transparent administrative processes despite their differences, such as the election of the mayor and his deputy.
The internship gave me a new administrative perspective and deepened my knowledge of the twin town. I am very grateful to Hilden and Nové Město nad Metují for the valuable experience and the encounters with the committed local people. The internship has broadened my horizons and strengthened my belief that the exchange between the cities is of great importance. I very much hope that the partnership will continue to grow and persist through such internship opportunities to promote cooperation and cultural exchange.
Internship
Would you like to get to know the tasks and areas of the city of Hilden as part of the career exploration days, a student internship or a voluntary internship? Then send an e-mail with a brief introduction of yourself, the period and desired location to bewerbung@hilden.de.
