Jobradar shows: These companies are both laying off people and looking for staff

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Imagine you receive a notice of termination and at the same time your employer hires new staff on a piece-rate basis. This is very frustrating. This is the reality in many companies, as the new edition of the job radar from Swiss labor market analysis company x28 shows.

Job radar reveals how many positions have been advertised in Switzerland in the first quarter of 2024 – around a quarter of a million. 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.

Teacher shortage attracts attention

On the one hand, it examines which professions are particularly popular in the labor market. As in the last quarter, nurses are at the forefront this quarter. A second profession in the healthcare industry, Healthcare Professionals (FaGe), is among the top 10 most frequently advertised positions.

Even though software developers remain among the most sought-after workers: The IT industry overall is posting far fewer jobs than it did two years ago. This is due, among other things, to a global wave of layoffs at major technology companies.

Teachers are new to the top 25. This is because the new school year is slowly unfolding. Schools looking for reinforcements for the new school year that will start in the summer are advised to make early warnings: there is a serious shortage of teachers.

Job radar examines the most sought-after occupations, as well as which employers are currently hiring the most staff. The survey calculates the average number of job postings posted daily on that employer’s website and compares them to the previous quarter.

Compared to the previous quarter, schools in the canton of Schaffhausen (+389 percent) and St. Schools in the canton of St. Gallen (+118 percent) were particularly active in advertising vacancies. They helped teachers become one of the top 25 most sought-after careers.

Internal mobility doesn’t work very well

Striking: Among employers who have increased job postings especially sharply, there are several companies where large-scale layoffs are taking place at the same time. Among them, St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital (+69 percent of advertised positions). St. Gallen hospitals are currently laying off 440 people; The lion’s share of these is in St. Gallen at the Cantonal Hospital.

Also among the most active employers is the Migros Zurich cooperative (+84 percent). At the same time, the sale of Melectronics, Hotelplan, SportX and Mibelle will result in the layoff of 1,500 people at Migros headquarters. In fact, Migros never tires of emphasizing that the planned reductions are offset by the 1,300 job openings already announced.

The fact that personnel are removed from one place and transferred to another in the same company proves how bad internal mobility is. Only in individual cases can employees be transferred to another part of the company instead of being dismissed. Most of the time the job profile doesn’t fit.

CS personnel seek asylum

Employers with the biggest increase in job postings include major bank UBS (+24 percent). And this is despite the fact that large-scale layoffs are looming as a result of the Credit Suisse integration. Even before the wave of layoffs really begins, UBS has been struggling with staff churn: UBS itself cites “increased attrition among CS employees” in its annual report.

Those who can switch to private or cantonal banks. UBS needs to change course, and that’s exactly why it’s now one of the companies that advertises positions most diligently.

Source :Blick