Where do Swiss companies recruit?
Six out of ten companies in Switzerland are currently hiring or planning to hire new employees. Despite the international orientation of many Swiss companies, they rely on a nationwide (41 percent) or regional (50 percent) search when recruiting employees. This is the finding of the HR Report 2018 from the personnel services provider Hays.
Despite the international orientation of many companies, Swiss firms prefer to look for employees domestically or in German-speaking countries: Only 16 percent of companies recruit in other European countries, and just 15 percent recruit globally. This is shown by the results of the HR Report 2018, for which the HR service provider Hays and the Institute for Employment and Employability (IBE) jointly surveyed over 1,000 organizations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This year's focus topic is "Agile Organization".
Swiss companies looking for employees outside their own national borders continue to do so primarily in German-speaking countries (46 percent) and in Western Europe (27 percent). In the German-speaking region as a whole, demand for specialists from northern and southern Europe has increased only marginally compared with the previous year. However, the importance of supraregional and international recruitment is increasing as the size of companies grows.
A high hurdle on the way to a agile organization are the management of new employees and the adaptation of the management culture. In this context, one in two respondents in this country complain about too little communication as the biggest stumbling block for managers - followed by difficulties in choosing the right leadership style and a lack of time for leadership tasks (both 42 percent), as well as a lack of reduction in employee control (40 percent).
Source: www.hays.ch
