In Germany, about 20% of all HEI graduates have a migration background. This target group faces particular challenges in integrating into the labour market. These mainly concern legal, linguistic and cultural aspects, prejudices on the part of employers as well as individual uncer-tainties regarding the further career. In a current empirical study, the previous counselling of-fers for the target group in their studies and in the transition were analysed. The following results seem particularly important:
• The transition counselling must already begin during the study programme.
• From the point of view of the universities, there are gaps in specific offers. It is also critically noted that the responsibility for counselling services within the university is not always clearly regulated.
• The existing offers are not always transparent for students with a migration background. The target group also shows passive behaviour when using these services.
• For this target group, professional counselling during the transition often does not take place, due to weak counselling competencies of staff members and not detailed knowledge related to the labour market conditions.
• Another striking feature is the frequently mentioned lack of networking between counsel-ling services, both inside and outside the university, e.g. with companies and public em-ployment services.
