Alexander Vitanyi

I'm the founder of JACVault, an AI application builder made specifically for the German job market.

I spent several years working abroad — and applying for jobs there — which is where I ran into, first-hand, how different the German and international job markets really are. What reads as a strong application in one place quietly signals “outsider” in the other.

For over 15 years I've worked closely with HR, and been on the other side of the table as an applicant. That showed me a real tension: companies want a personal, tailored application for every role — yet an applicant sends out many, and genuinely tailoring each one to that standard isn't humanly feasible. HR teams know this too; they also have their own targets to meet.

At the same time, I watched applicant tracking systems (ATS) take hold in Germany. The result is that capable people get filtered out before a human ever sees them. The specialist teams and HR often know it happens — sometimes they can pull a good candidate back into the process, and sometimes the system simply won't allow it. That worst case — strong people rejected on a technicality — is what I set out to fix.

That's why I built JACVault. It isn't about misrepresenting anyone to an employer. It's about presenting a person in their best, truthful light — optimized to the skills they actually have, so an ATS immediately understands how well they fit the role, and personalized enough that the HR person behind it understands why they fit the company.

And because application data is about as personal as it gets, all of it is handled to GDPR standards and stays with you, the applicant. No one — not even me — can look at it.

These guides come from all of that: the day-to-day specifics of how German (and DACH) applications actually work, kept current and cross-checked against official sources. General information, not legal advice — where something is a legal entitlement or a formal norm, I link the source so you can check it yourself.

If anything here is unclear or out of date, tell me — [email protected].