Curated students for 8 industries. We take care of scheduling, contracts, and payroll – you focus on operations.
Above-average pay from €17/hr, real contracts, 8 industries – you decide when you work.
2,000+ companies, 50,000+ students, AÜG licensed - AI-powered matches, human-controlled.
Since 2014, ucm.jobs has been connecting students with companies that need reliable, flexible staff. What began as a Berlin event agency is today Germany's leading AI-powered workforce platform.
ucm.jobs is a licensed staffing provider (AÜG-licensed) headquartered in Berlin with offices in Munich and Hamburg. The platform places students and flexible workers with over 2,000 companies throughout Germany - from DAX corporations to mid-sized event organisers.
What sets ucm apart from traditional temp agencies: all planning, booking and billing runs digitally through an app, fully automated, with a placement rate of over 98%.
The heart of the ucm platform is an AI-powered matching system. It takes into account qualifications, location, academic calendar, shift preferences and historical assignment ratings - and proposes suitable candidates within seconds. 85% of all processes run automatically.
The ucm matching system processes hundreds of parameters per candidate-assignment combination - a process that would take hours with manual planning runs in real time at ucm.
The principle behind it is what ucm itself calls "AI-powered matches, human-guided": algorithms handle the pre-selection, experienced account managers handle quality assurance.
ucm.jobs is active in eight sectors: retail, hospitality and catering, trade fairs and congresses, corporate events, festivals and cultural events, promotion and brand activation, airports (10 locations nationwide) and logistics and warehousing.
The client list includes companies such as Lufthansa Group, Tesla, KPMG, Estée Lauder and Deutsche Bahn as well as leading German airports. ucm delivers reliably not only for start-ups and mid-sized businesses but also for DAX corporations.
ucm is committed to fair wages as a central promise. The starting wage is 17 euros per hour. At airports, 17 to 22 euros is possible. Night and public holiday supplements can push the hourly rate up to 29.92 euros.
With over 30 million euros in student wages paid out, ucm is one of the largest private payers to students in Germany.
All assignments run with a genuine contract, socially compliant registration and punctual payment. Conditions are transparently visible before each assignment.
ucm was founded in 2014 in Berlin. What began as a specialised event agency developed through consistent use of technology into a nationwide workforce platform. Today ucm is headquartered in Berlin (Heidestr. 46-52, 10557) and operates further offices in Munich and Hamburg.
Traditional staffing is slow, expensive and often opaque. ucm solves exactly these problems: placement within 24 to 48 hours instead of weeks, a digital booking process without email ping-pong, pre-vetted and rated candidates with complete profiles, and transparent hourly billing without hidden costs. The no-show rate is below 1%.
Companies that need flexible staff will find at ucm.jobs a plannable, reliable alternative to traditional temp work. And students looking for reliable shifts, fair pay and a genuine contract register at ucm.jobs.
Getting started with ucm is deliberately kept simple. Students download the ucm app, verify their enrolment certificate and set their availability and preferred areas of deployment. The profile is reviewed internally - usually within 24 hours. Suitable shifts then appear directly in the app feed, sorted by location, hourly rate and sector.
Confirmed shifts run automatically through ucm as the employer. This means: no undeclared work, full social insurance coverage, correct income tax. For students who need to keep an eye on the mini-job threshold (556 euros/month, as of 2025) or the annual earnings ceiling, the app displays the current earnings status transparently. Those who want more control over their side job can find a filtered overview of all open assignments under available positions.
For most assignments, a well-groomed appearance, reliability and communicative German skills suffice. Sectors such as logistics or airport services require additional documentation - for example a valid photo ID for security zones or a background check under § 7 LuftSiG for airport assignments. ucm guides students through this process. At airport locations, experience shows that three to five working days should be allowed for accreditation.
Companies book staff via the ucm dashboard - either themselves via ucm Direct or through a dedicated account manager in the Managed model. The request covers assignment date, hours, qualification requirements and location. The system proposes suitable candidates within minutes and sends booking confirmations.
In the event of short-notice cancellations, the ucm backup system kicks in automatically: the system notifies backup candidates with matching qualifications and a similar assignment history. The no-show rate below 1% is no coincidence - it results from this three-stage safeguard: matching, confirmation and automatic backup. For major events such as trade fairs and congresses, ucm can at short notice coordinate teams of up to 200 people per shift.
Every assignment is recorded to the minute. Time tracking runs via the app - with digital check-in and check-out confirmed on site by the company representative via QR code. Billing appears monthly as a digital collective invoice, broken down by assignment, employee and hours. For the logistics sector, where assignments often take place overnight and on Sundays and public holidays, the system calculates supplements fully automatically in accordance with the statutory requirements of the AÜG (Temporary Employment Act).
Under § 1 Para. 1 AÜG, ucm.jobs operates as a licensed lender. Client companies bear no employer responsibility - this remains entirely with ucm. This significantly reduces the administrative burden on the company side.
Numbers speak louder than image brochures. On the references pages, ucm documents concrete project results - including major deployments at Fraport (Frankfurt Airport), MUC (Munich), the ESMO Congress and Ritter Sport. These projects show that the platform works under real-world conditions with varying demand volumes, strict compliance requirements and multi-day assignment periods.
Those who want to see the performance data collected in one place will find all key indicators on the Facts page: fill rates, customer satisfaction scores, sector figures and geographic reach. It also transparently shows how the platform has developed since 2014 - from a regional event agency to a nationally scalable workforce infrastructure.
For companies that have not yet had their own experience with ucm: the barrier to entry is low. A first assignment can be booked within 48 hours, without minimum volume or long-term contractual commitment. The next step is a staffing request directly on the platform - with concrete feedback within one working day.
ucm is not merely an intermediary - ucm is the official employer of all deployed students. This has far-reaching consequences: ucm bears full employer responsibility, registers all workers with the social insurance authorities, remits income tax and issues payslips. Client companies receive only the labour - without the bureaucratic overhead that accompanies conventional employment relationships.
This approach protects both sides. Students are clearly employed, not engaged as bogus self-employed workers, and receive confirmation of their employment relationship as needed for BAföG applications, health insurance queries or tax returns. Companies are protected against liability risks from illegal temporary employment - a point that is particularly relevant during commercial inspections by customs and the Financial Control of Undeclared Work (FKS).
All personnel data is processed on German servers and is subject to the GDPR. Candidate profiles are only passed on to companies when a specific booking request is made. Applicants can have their data deleted at any time. The same principle applies to business clients: booking histories, billing data and employee ratings remain visible exclusively to the respective company and are not sold on or used for external profiling purposes.
Many students don't need more money - they need predictability. Those who juggle changing exam periods, seminar blocks and assessment deadlines during the semester cannot afford rigid working hours. ucm solves this problem structurally: the app displays shifts at least 48 to 72 hours in advance, allowing students to plan their assignments around the university timetable. During lecture-free periods, shifts can be accumulated - during exam stress, simply skipped, without consequences.
This is what fundamentally differentiates ucm from classic mini-jobs in bars, supermarkets or call centres, where fixed weekly hours and short-notice cancellations lead to conflicts. Those who wish to can work through ucm in a completely self-determined way - only when it suits, to the extent that fits the semester. With an hourly rate from 17 euros, typical living costs in German cities can be covered even at a moderate work pace.
According to the German National Union of Students, around 68% of all students in Germany worked alongside their studies in 2022. The most common wish: flexible scheduling without minimum hour guarantees (Source: DSW Social Survey 2022).
Those who want to know specifically which assignments are currently available in their federal state can find a current, filtered job overview at ucm.jobs/studierende/jobs. Those interested in airports can find all relevant location information and entry requirements at ucm.jobs/studierende/jobs/flughafen. Those who register now can, with matching availability, be scheduled for their first assignment within the first week.
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