Thanks Bluemoon! Do you work in IT? Just to know... =P Another cuestion, just to know... i speak english and spanish, a little bit of italian and french... im planning to learn some german... in the IT area, if you know english you can get a job? or you must know some local language in order to get a job? Actually i dont have an IT Engneer, i have the ISTQB and a couple more certification, plus experience... =)


Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I worked in an International Company in my home country - then I applied for an internal certification, who interviewed for this Certification was a Swiss.

After a couple of month they posted a job ad. I applied and got the job after 1 year and 3 month from applying !

So, you get the job 1 year and 3 months later than you applied? OMG...

THIS, was helpful information. THANK YOU!! and best of luck to all of us job hunting.

Wow!!! thanks a lot!!!

I actually got hired here by mistake.

I've been holidaying in Switzerland for years, since the 'seventies in fact. Never thought of working here though. I left the UK and started travelling around, financed by IT contracting. Did this for a few years and inevitably got to know a lot of people.

One day, I was sitting stuck in traffic in a rainy, grid-locked. Warsaw suberb trying to find the place where Roger Waters was going to play. Then the phone rang. It was a guy I used to drink with in Brussels who had seemingly mistaken me for someone else and asked me if I wanted to come and help manage this major multi-million project with him for six months. As I had been out of work for a while, and the Warsaw trip representing a last splash of my available funds before re-entering the UK-style poverty from whence I came, I took the job. What else was I going to do?

After about six months they sacked me, essentially invalidating my pre-bilateral L, and I returned home to celebrate what I regarded as a wholly successful six months. That celebration ended up in hospital, and one thing leading to another, I took another temporary job in Schwyz a year later. That one ended up pretty much the same way, except that any putative celebration had to be cancelled after my car blew up on the way back home, and in my letter-box was a bill from my landlord demanding the 36-months rent arrears I owed him.

Undeterred, I came back for a third attempt. I've now got my C, and through a number of well-timed resignations and staged walk-outs, have evened the score on the falling out with employers front.

But wait, now you have a job? what is your area (I mean, what kind of jobs do you do)?

Really interesting!

Please pm me.
Thank you!

You want me to pm you? or was for kirstyjayne?

i spoke to a recruiting agent and told him i wanted a job in switzerland. he called back a week later and i moved 3 months after that. was relatively straight forward - though my gf and relatives were a bit surprised by the sudden move

But you were in Switzerland when you contacted to a recruiting? or you were in other country? can you pass me by pm that recruiting?

Thanks!!!

I spoke to my former boss in Silicon Valley and told her that I wanted to go on a temporary assignment in Europe (1 year or so), to be closer to my family and to build up a professional network there. I said I really wanted to go to Germany, since I love the country. She told me in plain English forget it, you can't go if you don't speak German at least at an intermediate level. She then told me that I could:

1) strengthen and consolidate what I already knew and move to a big, established market, similar to the US (in our field) - then, barring Germany, the natural choice would be the UK;

2) go to a new and developing market (in our field) but a relatively “easier” environment (in terms of language, proximity to family, etc.) – then the natural choices would be Ireland, Spain, or Italy;

3) be fearless and go in a totally different market, with totally different regulations, doing a type of work I had never really done before, and a “more difficult” place (for language, differences in way of living, etc.) – the two main options would be Switzerland and the Netherlands.

What to do?

Of course I picked option 3: I emailed the head offices of Zurich and Amsterdam to inquire whether they welcomed a new temporary addition to their teams, the Swiss replied, the Dutch didn’t, and so the issue was settled: it was going to be Switzerland. And Switzerland it was.

In the meantime, the "temporary assignment" turned into "my indefinite residence", but that is another story...

My job was offered to my brother, but he didn't want to leave the UK, so he passed it on to me - we both have PhD's in physical chemistry... Since my wife was born in Chamonix, a job in Geneva was perfect for all concerned.

Is that the attitude you have to find a job?! wake up

Why don't you PM her? You can be waiting for years for an answer as Kirsty post is from 2008.

Moving to a job in Switzerland started as a joke. A U.S. based former colleague sent me an email one day telling me of an opportunity to have a free paid vacation in Switzerland if I express my interest to an open position in Switzerland, then if the interest is mutual I will get invited to a paid three day trip to switzerland for personal interview and a tour of the local offices and a glimpse of life in the city and nearby attractions. At the end of the tour I could simply say No Thanks but I still prefer to float on crisis proof oil in the UAE. Nothing to lose.

1 month after I sent my CV, I asked when will be my Interview trip. I was told that this part of the process was skipped, the employment contract with links to a secure part of the company website has been sent and all I have to do is sign the contract and show up here. This was followed by 7 months of sleepless nights, contemplating, digging into the EF - the ultimate reference for CH - until I finally took the plunge.. pressing the undo button did not immediately take effect...