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The focus of this chapter is on the occupational development of skilled workers and academics who graduated from vocational education and training or from a university either in 1985 or 1990. Comparisons are made between the older cohort entering employment under socialist conditions and the younger under labour-market conditions after German reunification. Data was collected through a longitudinal study of the transition of individuals from education to employment and their subsequent occupational careers in order to examine the extent occupational mobility and success or failure depend on: the level of education; cohort; gender; labour-market segment; occupation; personnel management by private and public employers in expanding/shrinking new and old industries; and on biographical coping strategies.