Pablo works with the Helferei They've been together since the beginning of 2025. Having just arrived in Germany on a working holiday visa , he immediately joined the Helferei He registered and created a tradesman profile. He originally comes from Argentina, where he completed an apprenticeship as a construction technician and a degree in industrial mechanics. However, neither qualification could be directly recognized in Germany. Therefore, he found the trade-related jobs that customers often requested during the... Helferei book now, very convenient at the beginning.
Thanks to his Working Holiday visa, Pablo also had the legal basis to do so: The visa offers young people from various countries the opportunity to live in Germany for a year and support themselves through flexible jobs while exploring the country.
For Pablo, starting in Germany also meant a significant adjustment: He had previously owned his own craft business in Argentina. Team management, customer relations, and finances were central to his daily work. In Germany, however, he had to dust off his old toolbox.
We quickly realized that Pablo had lost none of his skills: satisfied customers and really good reviews followed.
But Pablo has another mission as well. Through his Instagram account , he documents his journey and wants to show people from Latin America: You can make it in Germany! Anyone who wants, can.
And in fact, several other workers on our platform learned about Helferei through Pablo. Thanks to his content, they are now following a similar path.
Now that his Working Holiday visa has expired, Pablo has joined forces with the Smart Cooperative, a cooperative for self-employed individuals. The cooperative aims to improve working conditions for the self-employed as a whole while promoting social justice. People who are:
Employees can become employees of Smart after an individual review. This allows them to continue fulfilling orders for various clients in their field and effectively work like freelancers. However, the cooperative issues their invoices and covers their social security contributions from the cooperative's solidarity-based membership fees.
This path has also enabled Pablo to continue taking on handyman and trades-related jobs through Helferei and elsewhere, even after his Working Holiday visa expired, while he waits for his academic credentials to be recognized. As his experience in Germany grows, his assignments are becoming increasingly challenging, which in turn has a positive impact on his earnings.
Oh, and by the way: Through a client of Helferei, he even found an apartment for a while and, as he himself says, got to know a lot of very amazing people in the process.
Are you – like Pablo – from Argentina, from Chile, or another country with a working holiday program, and looking for flexible jobs in Germany?
Then take a look at the Helferei Register your profile for free . If everything checks out, we'll activate it, you'll get access to our app and can select suitable jobs in your area.
We're not just looking for tradespeople , but also people with skills for housekeeping and cleaning – with increasing experience, very well-paid jobs are possible here as well. You can also help with removals and carrying heavy items , offer babysitting and childcare , or use your IT skills to help people with computer and technical issues .
In our help center for helpers, we explain step by step how to create your profile correctly . and about the Helferei You'll find jobs.
We are already looking forward to working with you!
