Financial center surprising: These are the most advertised professions in Switzerland

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There’s an extra week of vacation, a free fitness subscription, in-house day care, and half a ticket on top of that: Job postings for nursing professionals read like a showcase for employee benefits. No wonder: there is no other profession in Switzerland with so many vacancies.

Analytics firm x28’s job radar counted nearly 6,400 job openings for nursing professionals in the fourth quarter of 2023. A second profession in the healthcare industry, healthcare professionals (FaGe), ranked in the top 10 most frequently advertised jobs.

Companies need help recruiting

A total of a quarter of a million jobs were advertised in Switzerland in the fourth quarter. Compared to previous quarters, it was slightly less at the end of the year. However, this does not mean that tensions in the labor market will ease. This also shows that around half of the positions are advertised by staffing service providers, not employers. It is a sign that companies are unsuccessful in their search for employees and are forced to resort to the help of human resources agencies.

The largest job deficit in the fourth quarter was seen in the canton of Zurich (55,000), the economic locomotive of Switzerland. Behind these are the cantons of Bern (38,000) and Aargau (20,000). x28 uses so-called web crawling for the survey: company websites, job exchanges and homepages of personnel service providers are automatically searched and evaluated on a daily basis.

In addition to healthcare, there is also a focus on retail and the construction industry. But here’s what’s surprising, given the final decision at Credit Suisse and UBS: There are still plenty of job openings in the financial hub. In the study, 5,600 postings were placed in the professional finance jobs group, and at least 1,300 of them were classic banking jobs. But be careful: Because these figures cover many occupations, they’re not directly comparable to the 6,400 advertised nursing positions.

These employers are adding staff

It also examined which employers are currently hiring particularly large numbers of staff. The survey calculates the average number of job postings posted daily on that employer’s website and compares them to the previous quarter.

Many retailers are at the forefront: Coop, Otto’s and Manor are on the podium. And once again: The big bank UBS is also in the top 15, despite its merger with CS and thousands of layoffs. Many healthcare providers, such as the Insel Group in Bern and the Aargau Psychiatric Services, are also represented among these banks. most active employers

Because despite free public transport subscriptions or additional holidays, you can rarely avoid night and weekend services in the healthcare system. This is causing many staff to flee and will ensure that nurses will continue to be particularly sought after in the job market in the future.

Source :Blick