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Hi TeoPerry,

Welcome to ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ

You can post an advert or your resume in the Jobs in Switzerland section to optimise your chances to find a job there

I invite to read an article on how to Find a job in Switzerland in the Expat-Blog guide. It might be helpful.

Maybe you should check out the article on Work visas in Switzerland too

Best of luck

Thank you

Maximilien
Expat-blog Team

Hello TeoPerry,

For most "local" jobs you will be expected to speak the "local" language. That's probably more or less the same in Switzerland and in Brazil. Depending on the part of Switzerland where you want to work, the local language is French, German or Italian.

Exceptions are universities (where you might get through with English-only) and firms that have an international scope - usually the bigger, multinational, firms.

Remember, however:
- even for jobs where the local language is not explicitly required, it is a disadvantage if you don't speak it, and applicants with better knowledge of the local language will have an advantage over you.
- learning the local language is extremely helpful for finding friends (outside the "international circuit"), chatting with work colleagues, finding your way in Swiss bureaucracy (finding accomodation, filling out your tax form, insurances, ...) and so on.
In my opinion it is definitely worth learning the local language if you don't speak it.

Hello, Teo!

I'm also a Brazilian from São Paulo (only writing in English 'cause I think this topic can be useful to others as well!).

I'm also on publicity, more specifically on social media and I managed to find a job without speaking French (main local language here in Geneva).

My tips are:

- Use Linkedin to look for jobs and also to get you CV going around (you can look for me there, I bet we have some friends in common from SP, and maybe I can help you get connected to Swiss people in our field);

- Start studying the local language in a proper school so that you can say in your resume "German: studying" (it's better than no German at all and show some effort);

- Google the main publicity companies on your town, find out their e-mail and write to them pro-actively introducing and "selling" yourself. That's how I got my job: one of the agencies I sent e-mails like that was looking for some one with my profile!

Hope I helped!