{"id":660405,"date":"2025-12-29T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660405\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:19:11","slug":"indian-woman-shares-how-she-landed-job-in-germany-after-being-laid-off-in-us-divine-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660405\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian woman shares how she landed job in Germany after being laid off in US: ‘Divine intervention’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Indian woman who earlier documented her months-long job hunt and eventual move out of the United States has now shared how she has secured a biotech job in Germany. In a new Instagram video, content creator Ananya Joshi<\/a> detailed the series of events that led to the offer, calling it nothing short of \u201cdivine intervention\u201d. \u201cYou\u2019re not unworthy, you\u2019re simply in the wrong place\u2026 I don\u2019t speak German, I was hired anyway,\u201d she wrote in the caption of her post.<\/p>\n

\"In In the video, Ananya detailed the series of events that led to the job offer. (Instagram\/@ananyastruggles) <\/p>\n

In the video, Ananya said she came across the job posting on May 14 – the same day she was laid off in the US. \u201cWhen I saw the job, I didn\u2019t know I was about to get laid off the same day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She added that she routinely reads about companies working in her field and happened to look up the German firm on LinkedIn, where she saw a posting for a bioprocess scientist uploaded just 2 hours earlier. \u201cAnd guess what? I was a bioprocess scientist,\u201d she said, adding that she applied immediately.<\/p>\n

Later that day, she said that she lost her job in the US. So, after returning home, she wrote directly to the company\u2019s CEO and CTO and to her surprise, they replied the next morning and invited her for interviews.<\/p>\n

Watch the video below: From layoff to job offer<\/p>\n

Ananya said that the company asked her to prepare a 20-minute presentation on her past projects, along with slides about herself and her hobbies. She shared that the first interview took place in May, and a second round was scheduled for July, for which she was invited on an all-expenses-paid trip to Germany.<\/p>\n

However, she said that because she was simultaneously job-hunting in the US and international travel was risky at the time, she opted to attend virtually. She said that the second round lasted 4-5 hours, with multiple team members interviewing her.<\/p>\n

At the end, Ananya said that she was told the round had been a \u201cformality\u201d and that the job was hers. She said that the offer came at a crucial time as her F-1 Optional Practical Training (OPT) had expired, her grace period in the US was ending in September, and her role in Germany was expected to begin in October. Although the company later requested she start in January 2026 due to fundraising delays, she said that she accepted the adjusted timeline and kept interviewing elsewhere until her visa process began.<\/p>\n

Social media reactions<\/p>\n

Her post received a lot of love, with many users congratulating her.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations sweetie! Landing a job in Germany while the economy looks like this is already a struggle but you have made it,\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are giving me some hope,\u201d commented another.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuperb ! God bless and all the best ! Inspiration for those who need to believe in themselves!\u201d wrote a third user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Indian woman who earlier documented her months-long job hunt and eventual move out of the United States…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[201876,201877,201875,2000,299,1824,151014,201878],"class_list":{"0":"post-660405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-ananya-joshi","9":"tag-bioprocess-scientist","10":"tag-biotech-job","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-job-hunt","15":"tag-job-offer-in-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115803295801966096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}