At 9 am in the morning, Jamila (not her real name) begins her work. Three weeks ago she began her vocational training at the "Joel" hair and comestics salon in Bonn's "Bad Godesberg" district. Jamila arrived in Germany with her family two and a half years ago from Iraq. She worked as an accountant there, but it’s not easy to enter this profession in Germany, because it demands a very high level of German. The obstacles of the foreign language did not stop Jamila from working in Germany.  Despite her being preoccupied with language learning courses, she continued looking for a job to break into the German labor market. At the end, she found a trainee position in a field far from her area of specialization back home - hair styling.  "I would’ve loved working as a hairdresser in Iraq but I wasn’t able to do so. I am glad to have this training opportunity here in Germany," she told Infomigrants. Sometimes attempts result in failure The hair styling profession is one of the most sought after professions in Germany and slots for trainees in the field are limited. "I  tried to look for a place in many salons but until I found the Joel salon, all of my attempts wound up in failure," Jamila said. Nariman, a Syrian immigrant and the owner of the salon knows how difficult it is to obtain an apprenticeship in the hair styling field - especially for refugees. This led her to help newcomers by opening up two spots for refugees in her salon every month.  She has lived in Germany since 2004 and despite her vast expertise in hair styling that she brought with her from Syria, it was not easy to find a job in the field when she arrived in Europe. It took Nariman seven years  to be able to open up her own salon in Germany and she remembered the challenges she faced in the beginning. "I have worked in the hair styling profession since 1987 but because I hadn’t mastered the language in the beginning, many salons rejected me as a trainee," she told Infomigrants. Raw talent isn’t all that matters Nariman told Infomigrants that an apprenticeship at her hair salon lasts between four to six weeks and at the end, the apprentice receives a certificate saying that she is qualified to work in the field. Nariman also indicated that just raw talent doesn’t suffice, adding,  "There are vast differences between my country and Germany in the hair styling products being used and the way of dealing with clients." She also says that "In Germany, hair stylists have to know how the chemicals in hair products could affect the client’s health, while this isn’t taken into consideration as much in Syria." Nariman doesn’t require her apprentices to have a high level in German, but they need to know the basic terms in the fields such as "clean up the eyebrows"  or "asking how or if they want their hair to be layered." Nariman definitely tries to help her trainees get to know the German work atmosphere and the Germans themselves, but the one important piece of advice she would like to give to all newcomers is : "perfecting the language is the essential key to working in Germany."