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Some input by anyone that is or has been involved in the hiring process when it included the submission of a resume would be greatly appreciated. I am recently retired from the military and am living and working in Germany as a Personal Trainer. I'm doing very well being self employed but am strongly considering putting myself on the market and sending out a bunch of resume's to the many spa's and health club's located in the Southern Germany, Austrian, and Swizterland area's. I speak great conversational and business German, having spent many years stationed here and being married to a German woman. Many German's with whom I speak have no idea that I am not German and my son's, who are in their 20's and have never left Germany say I speak German very well but if they didn't know me would think that I am just less than fully educated. Should I have a translator type up my resume and explain the circumstances during the interview or should I just do it myself?

Answer:
If your wife is from Germany and your adult sons speak flawless german, ask one of them to do it. They should be able to write it with proficiency and without the problems of literal translation. If it comes up in the interview, answer the interviewers questions with brevity. I would be curious to know how they feel about American ausnehmer. Viel Gluck.

If you need to travel from one place to another, will it matter much what car it is? Whether it is Mercedes or Ford, it will hardly matter as long as it can deliver. (In fact some times Ford stands better chances as a foreign product). Particularly the market you are targeting may have better use of you as a non German. What you think as a disadvantage is many a times your advantage. Your strengths are your weaknesses and your weaknesses are your strengths, if you know them.

You obviously know a lot of 'spoken' German, but are feeling 'less than good' at your 'written German' ... so I think that you should write your resume in English then ask three different people (who don't even know each other) to 'translate it' for you ... then take the three 'translations' and 'read them aloud' to yourself and choose 'the best way to make each statement' and put that in German in your 'final' resume.
Since English is your 'first language' there should be something in your resume saying that ... and you should also say that your 'spoken German' is 'as good as a native-born speaker of German.'

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