Germany needs skilled workers, yet only 7 percent of refugees who arrived between 2013 and 2019 were employed after a year in the country. This DW film follows the programs trying to close that gap and the bureaucratic maze causing it: work bans, slow asylum processing, unrecognized qualifications, and language barriers. At the ReDI School of Digital Integration in Munich, volunteer instructors like IT consultant Michael Maag teach free programming courses to refugees and underprivileged locals, with graduates often hired before their paperwork clears and most finding jobs within 18 months. Nadiia Andrushchenko, a Ukrainian lawyer whose law credentials mean nothing in Germany, describes how the school helped her find work anyway. In Saarbrücken, Stefanie Valcic-Manstein runs Perspektive Neustart, a one-year program guiding migrants toward self-employment through business coaching, paperwork navigation, and introductions to customers and investors. The film moves between classrooms, job interviews, and one-on-one mentoring sessions to show what it actually takes, person by person, to turn a labor shortage into a hiring pipeline.