Cross post from r/ticino My girlfriend has started looking for a job in accounting and finance so she can move to Switzerland and live with me. She has a good CV (4 years of relevant experience, good university) and is already earning a decent salary where she is in Italy but it’s time for us to start building a life together. I was lucky enough to find a good job over here a few years ago before we met. After sending out a ton of CVs, she gets contacted by a well-known fashion brand with an office in the Mendrisio region for a pretty standard finance role that doesn’t require any particularly specific skills. First interview with two managers. They ask her about skills and competencies that were not mentioned anywhere in the job ad and go well beyond the profile they were supposedly looking for. They call her back for a second interview with HR. Then a third one with the Group CFO, who once again asks about skills and competencies that had never been mentioned before. And now there’s a fourth interview with the foreign team she would actually be working with. Four interviews. Salary on offer: CHF 50–55k. For a full time role at 100%. We’re talking about a multinational company with over CHF 500 million in revenue. Luckily, I earn well enough to be able to support both of us if necessary, but how is a normal person supposed to find a decent job in Ticino? Are we really forced to move elsewhere just to have any kind of professional fulfilment? It honestly seems crazy to me that this is considered normal here I don’t even feel like blaming cross-border workers for this. To me, this is simply what happens when companies are run by rats who take advantage of people’s willingness to accept exploitation and messed up politics who favour this kind of stuff Any suggestions on how to tackle this is well appreciated. Rant over. submitted by /u/Background-Pear9711
Originally posted by u/Background-Pear9711 on r/Switzerland