So as we exit the financial meltdown it becomes time to focus upon jobs in Switzerland the creation of Swiss recruitment mandates.
It seems the market for Swiss jobs has remained stable and can only improve from here. A key problem is not the actual volume of new positions, but persuading the ever risk averse Swiss professional to consider a career change at what is still a time of uncertainty. Like Swiss recruitment industry heavy weight, Berner Zeitung said in a recent survey, he conducted:
"Those who would like a new Swiss banking job has already made the move"
This was confirmed by fellow Swiss head hunter and search & selection guru, Raymond Känel. He explained:
"Even after the almost total collapse of the worlds banking systems there are many vacancies. Its finding quality candidates that remains, and always is the problem."
The Banking, real estate and the trust industries are finding that quality workers are scarce. Even the Swiss arm of recruitment giant Manpower agrees:
"We lack people with technical training and multilingual candidates"
So why is it that so few people today want to change Swiss job? Other Swiss recruitment consultants claim they seeing many employees who have a "huge uncertainty" and don’t want to "risk anything by moving"
It should be noted at the upper end of the employment scale, at management level, there are currently fewer vacancies than before: People looking for a well paid Swiss job, need a little more patience than before. The reasons is that companies coming out of the crisis, but filling of job posts more cautiously, i.e. the decision-making process is taking two to four weeks longer than in the boom years.