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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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