I was wondering if there was anyone who could point me in the right direction with regards to job hunting in Switzerland.

I am moving out to Lausanne over the summer and looking for employment from September. I have 8 years secondary school teaching experience and I am currently Head of Design and Technology in the UK. I am interested in continuing to teach but I think that I am too late in looking for the next school year now so I am open to looking to try something different for a year or so in the meantime.

I'd be grateful if anyone can suggest any good recruitment agencies who might be able to connect me with work in a different field, or if anyone has any other suggestions of people/companies to contact to get me started.

Thank you in advance for any advice you might have.

You might want to look up the stickie on "english-speaking companies"? You could also contact recruitment companies.

Or do you speak French/German/Italian fluently?

Thanks Roegner.

I haven't used French since I was at school but I have enrolled on a 3 week French course at Lausanne University in July so hopefully I will be able to speak/understand a bit more after that. I dont speak Italian or German at all so I understand this might limit me somewhat.

Can you recommend any good recruitment agencies?

Not quite sure how you imagined to teach without speaking a local language - this would be kind of like the blind leading the blind. School-level French from years ago plus a few weeks of a summer course won't do. Classes are of course taught in the local language and even if you were to teach English, you'd still need a very decent grasp of French as obviously your students will be French-speaking.

The only option you have with English only are international schools. So best to start there, there are a few here and there in Lausanne.

For non-teaching English jobs, see roegner's reference above and a large number of threads in the forum on the same topic.

What are you looking to teach?

Tom

Ideally Design (product, resistant materials, graphics etc) but open to other subjects.

Thank you for your reply Samarie. I am only considering English speaking Internatiinal schools for those reasons.

I can search the internet for recruitment agencies but I was hoping for someone to be able to recommend ones that they have found particually good so if you know of any in Lausanne I'd be grateful for a recommendation.

Thanks again for your help Samarie

Sorry, the recruiters I use are often specialized in Finance. You can try the obvious one like MP, Adecco etc

Basel is the city with the most artistic and industrial design skills. Why do you choose Lausanne?

If you want to try teaching you could check out the College du Leman in Versoix. They have summer camps (I worked there in summer 2012), might be a good way to get your foot in the door. I have some names of people there if you want to PM me I can tell you to whom to direct your contact. Its probably too late - they usually find their teachers by February - but you never know, maybe someone dropped out.

I am confused. Do you have a residence permit?

In the process of arranging one. Thank you everyone for your advice.

How are you arranging a permit without a job? Are you getting married?

EU national, no problem.

Still you can't arrange one until you actually move here. Until you can present a rental contract - and an employment contract too if you have one by then - to the cantonal migration office you can't get a permit, simple as that.

No job, no permit. But often, no permit, no job.

What are you guys talking about???

She's an EU citizen. She doesn't need a job to get a permit.

I don't know if this would fall under design (I'm sorry I don't know much about your field), but I saw a posting at the Ecolint looking for a Teacher of Art https://www.ecolint.ch/job/teacher-art Some of the international schools do recruit locally a little bit later than might be expected. My husband was hired last year in the summer (to start in september). I would look directly on the international school websites (I made myself a list if you would like it, I can write it here)

And what permit would that be, with no job?

An L job seekers permit. Come on! This is beginner stuff.

Ah ok, I didn't think a permit was necessary as I thought one could come and look for work without one.

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