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Introductions...
An avid writer and blogger (www.JobsInCH.com)
Long-time expat, including CH since 2007
Finance professionals with 15+ years of experienceHappily married, father of two wonderful boys
...it isn’t taught in colleges and universities and yet both are an essential life-skill
Job-Seeking Is Like Parenting...
...and both can be learned
Seven Audacious and Creative Ideas About Finding Work in
Switzerland
Idea 1Take a strategic view of your professional career in the context of expatriation to Switzerland:
Career Management = Strategic Marketing
Career and workFamily and personalPhysical and healthIntellectual and personal developmentFinancialLikes and dislikes
Work?Don’t Work?Continue Career?Change Career?
Idea 1 – cont.Instead of trying to get a job as a nuclear physicist (as you were in your home country) you may consider seeking teaching jobs in science for one of several international schools present in Switzerland…of course if this is something that interests you.
From Nuclear Physicist to a Teacher
Idea 2
Certain about what you want?
Gather Market Research
Your next step is to be unequivocally clear about your target market…and then research it to find out what is out there.
Involve friends and network contacts.
Remember that your research never stops, it is constant work-in-progress...
IndustryGeographyCompanies Language SpokenNGOsInterim / Temp Work
Idea 3
Try to define what your transferable and non-transferable skills are.
You = Product
Non-transferable: chemical engineer
Transferable: negotiator, resolves conflicts,
Then define your Unique Selling PointsPosition Yourself
Idea 4Get your «Communication Mix» perfect:
Communication = Promotion
Job ResumeCover LetterWork CertificatesJob ReferencesDegreesTraining Certificates
Be a «Polished Communicator»
Idea 4 – Cont.Present yourself through your accomplishments
Example: Writing Job-Resume
Avoid passive words and phrases“Responsible for the sales function”“Achieved 10% sales growth”
Idea 5
Placement is how you let employers know that you are there, potentially qualified and potentially fit to take the job.
Job-Searching = Placement
It is your distribution channel! And no business uses just one channel and neither should you!
NETWORKINGHead-huntersCold-callingCareer FairsJob-boards Direct-mailing
Idea 6Some estimate that 70% of jobs are filled in the invisible job-market
Network, Network, Network
Hitting the street is the only strategy to get hired fastYour goal is to get in front of the hiring managers even if there are no particular jobs on offer...
Networking is...
... trail of breadcrumbs that spread from one person to another where each new breadcrumb helps you move forward.
Idea 6
How Does It Work?
Identify hiring managersLeverage your networkCold-call the companiesUse «SimplyHired.com»
Write attention-grabbing letters / teasers and use your referals
Select target companiesGet yourself introduced...
Then wait....and follow up from time-to-time
Networking = Planning
Idea 7
Going To Interview?
Swiss employers go for traditional interviews...and this is Good News!Be enthusiastic and confident
Script your answersKnow everything you can about the job and the company
Have your questions
Exercise! Exercise! Exercise!
Just One More Idea
Psychology of Job-Hunting
Don’t just wish! Desire!
Cut procrastinationEliminate disempowering believesGet hold of your stressorsDon’t job-hunt from your kitchen. Have a proper job-office!Be positive
Goals = Control
Career Management Market ResearchCommunnication = Promotion
You= ProductInterviewing For SuccessNETWORKINGJob-Searching = Placement
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