Au-pair and her host family receive award from pme
Parent & Child

Au-pair the year 2025 is Brenda from Mexico

Brenda Jiménez from Mexico was Familienservice Au-pair Year 2025 by her host family and pme Familienservice . She settled in quickly in Pfronten, at the foot of the Allgäu Alps: "She walks through the mountains with the boys, discovers local markets, and diligently practices German to communicate even better with us," says host mother Lea. 

Brenda enchants the Allgäu region  

Since August 2025, Brenda Jiménez has been the "bright star" of the Trenkle family. After just a short time, she has enriched family life in the Allgäu region for Leo (1), Charlie (3), and parents Lea and Kilian – with empathy, initiative, humor, and her warmth. Within a few months, Brenda has become deeply rooted in everyday German life, making friends and bringing new cultures and languages together. 

"With her loving, positive, and humorous nature, she brings laughter and warmth to our everyday lives—the children simply adore her and love it when she tells stories from Mexico or romps with them through the alpine meadows." – The Trenkle family 

Warmth that goes through the stomach 

"Brenda goes above and beyond," her host family writes. She impresses not only with her warm care, but also with her cooking skills. Once a week, she serves Mexican specialties such as fresh tacos or enchiladas – a highlight for the whole family. 

With her keen intuition, Brenda is always there when needed—whether picking up the children or preparing dinner. Her dedication and energy make the Trenkle family's life both varied and relaxed. 

"Their energy and commitment turn our hectic family life into a real adventure, but also bring deceleration and relaxation into it!" says the Trenkle family.

What is an "Au-pair Year" at pme Familienservice? 

Since 2013, pme Familienservice has been awarding Familienservice "Au-pair " prize to young people from abroad who enrich families in Germany with their commitment, openness, and sense of responsibility.

Host families nominate their Au-pair a personal testimonial, such as the Trenkle family nominating Brenda for her exceptional commitment.

Au-pair with pme Familienservice 

With over 30 years of experience, pme Familienservice is Familienservice strong partner for secure and certified Au-pair in Germany. Families and au pairs benefit from comprehensive information, qualified advice, and reliable support throughout the entire stay.  

Would you like Au-pair an Au-pair as a host family? Find out what requirements must be met. 

Would you like to becomeAu-pair Germany? Create your profile for free and find your host family. 

zero pme and Generation Ü: From retirement to working life

Retiree partial retirement
Leadership & HR

pme and Generation Ü: From retirement to working life

By 2030, over eight million people will be of working age. Only around 5.5 million workers will join the labor market. Many companies are already feeling the effects of this huge skills gap. In order to anticipate this development at an early stage, the pme Familienservice Group is deliberately focusing on new ways of recruiting through a partnership with the "Generation Ü" job agency.

For some time now, pme Familienservice has been committed to keeping team members in employment - at their own request - after they retire. At the beginning of March, pme Familienservice launched a partnership with the job placement agency "Generation Ü", which helps to recruit people with extensive work experience. In future, the focus will be on more than 90 childcare and educational institutions across Germany.

Silver worker: From retirement to working life

At the 30 pme locations throughout Germany, Generation Ü will search for and place suitable "Üs" as a job placement service for retirement. Üs are women and men, generally between their late 50s and early 70s, who want to remain active towards the end of their working life or in retirement.

"Through the partnership with Generation Ü, pme Familienservice wants to focus even more strongly than before on the experience and motivation of older generations. This is an important component of our diversity strategy and should also help to counter the increasing shortage of skilled workers," says Alexa Ahmad, CEO of the pme Familienservice Group.

Who is Generation Ü?

Ü founder and former State Secretary Christian Ege says: "Generation Ü brings companies and Üs into contact and organizes the cooperation, hand-mediated and with an internal IT platform in which over 1200 Üs are currently registered".

Generation Ü offers SMEs and public employers in particular many advantages and credibility in the search, placement and recruitment of skilled workers over 55. Whether in the office, childcare, classroom, accounting, as a driver, in sales, production, technology or a doctor's surgery: the Üs fulfill many tasks and important projects reliably, with knowledge, drive and many years of experience in a wide variety of professions and areas. Just in a slightly different way than in conventional working life.