Work-life balance more important than one's own career
In the future, employers will have to offer their employees more than a fat salary and steep career prospects. Once employees are looking for a job, the French are more active than the German-speaking Swiss. These are the findings of a study conducted by JobCloud AG in collaboration with the Link Institute.
For the study, 1,486 people between the ages of 16 and 60 were surveyed during active and passive job searches. Probably the clearest result of the study is that as many as 78 percent of respondents would prefer a good work-life balance to a high position in the company.
Only 43 percent said that their career was very important to them. Personal advancement seems to be more important to the western Swiss than to the German Swiss (52 versus 40 percent). If the "chemistry" is right, respondents can well imagine staying with the same employer for more than five years (89 percent). Even the younger generation between 16 and 24 sees no problem with this (81 percent).
Western Switzerland more active
In terms of the distribution of job seekers, there are more active and passive job seekers in German-speaking Switzerland overall: 41 percent versus 36 percent in French-speaking Switzerland. However, the French-speaking Swiss are more active: 45 percent of them have applied for a job in the last 12 months.
In German-speaking Switzerland, the figure was only 38 percent. In the same period, the French sent out an average of 28 applications, while the German-speaking Swiss only managed 15 per head. Overall, it can be observed that older job seekers applied more frequently than younger ones.
Popular channels
The most popular channel for job searches are online job portals with 65 percent. This is an increase of two percent over the previous year. In second place are company websites with 53 percent, the same figure as last year. Advertisements in newspapers and magazines are used less each year for job searches (down 6 percent on the previous year).
At 21 percent, social networks continue to play a rather subordinate role in the search for the dream job.
