Foreigners wanted: the Blochers are recruiting staff in Germany for their EMS chemistry In Switzerland, people are drinking less beer – and more and more of it is alcohol-free

It is more difficult than ever for companies to recruit employees. This is evident from research published this week by employment agency Adecco and the University of Zurich. “Despite declining growth momentum due to the current economic slowdown, the skilled labor shortage has increased by 24 percent,” the report says.

Martin Meyer, head of Adecco German-speaking Switzerland, is no longer talking about a shortage of skilled workers, but rather a general shortage of workers. And he has two recommendations for Swiss companies.

First, companies must become innovative to better utilize the Swiss labor market. And secondly, foreign workers must also be taken into account.

Companies advertise on German portals

A look at ‘Stellananzeigen.de’, a major German job vacancy portal, shows that German-speaking Swiss companies are definitely trying to attract applicants from across the border. In a random sample, 29 messages were posted this Thursday with the workplace in Switzerland.

The advertised vacancies are aimed at people with a wide range of qualifications. A transport company in Basel is looking for someone with a commercial education, and the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Zollikofen is looking for a professor in the field of forestry process engineering.

EMS-Chemie wants to include Germans in the team

There are several vacancies at Domat/Ems in the canton of Graubünden. EMS-Chemie is trying to recruit three managers in Germany. EMS-Grivory is looking for a “CAE calculation engineer for plastic parts (m/f/d)” and a project manager for plastic applications in the automotive and industrial/healthcare sectors.

The company is mainly owned by SVP National Councilor Magdalena Martullo-Blocher and her sisters Rahel and Miriam Blocher. They took over the company from their father: SVP leader and billionaire Christoph Blocher.

«EMS aims to fill all vacancies in Domat/Ems with people from Switzerland. If this does not work, we will also look for specialists in German-speaking countries,” a spokesperson said when asked.

Markus Blocher goes one step further. Magdalena Martullo’s brother is also in the chemical industry. He runs the company Dottikon SE in the city of the same name in the canton of Aargau. In the future, the company will advertise vacancies in radio spots on German channels. “In Germany, people will receive sound from us in the coming year,” Blocher said this week at the company’s semi-annual conference, according to “NZZ”.

In addition, German employees should also be challenged on social media. Markus Blocher expects a recession in the neighboring country, including massive layoffs, and therefore expects the German labor market to have growth potential.

Skilled workers are needed even more urgently in healthcare and IT professions than in chemistry. They top the rankings of the affected sectors. (aargauerzeitung.ch)