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As soon as you start typing in the «Occupation» field, we suggest matching occupations. If you pick one, your vacancy hangs on an entry carrying labels in German, French, Italian and English — together with the usual alternative wordings. This has a consequence that is easy to overlook: someone in Ticino searching for «parrucchiere» finds your German-language posting. And someone typing «Coiffeuse» finds it even if your title reads «Friseur (m/f/d)». Without an occupation, only those who happen to type the same word as you will find you.

Then write it down anyway. The field is free — your text is saved and appears in the listing exactly as you typed it. What happens behind the scenes: your occupation reaches us as a proposal. Once it is approved, your vacancy hangs on it and from then on is findable in the other three languages too. You do not have to do anything for that, and you do not have to edit your listing again.

You state the workload as a range — «60 to 100 %» rather than a single figure. Searching works by overlap: someone looking for 80 % sees your vacancy even if you posted 60 to 100 %. The salary is optional. If you state it, it is filtered on, and your vacancy appears for everyone searching for at most that much. If you leave it out, you lose those searchers — that is the price, and the decision is yours. Employment type, experience, education, languages and home office are all optional. Every detail you provide is a filter you show up in.

State the postcode and town where the work actually happens — not where your office is. A recruitment office in Zurich posting a job in Chur belongs on the map in Chur. We need the postcode because place names are not unique: there are two «Weiningen» in Switzerland. On the map in the job search the pin sits on the centre of the locality, never on an address.

For occupation types with high unemployment, Switzerland applies a duty to report vacancies: you must report the open position to the regional employment centre first and may not advertise it publicly for five working days. Which occupation types are affected is set annually by SECO. The duty lies with you as the employer, not with us — we do not check this and cannot. We point it out when you post in this category and link to where you can look up your own occupation type. Violations carry fines of up to 40,000 francs.

The order is the reverse of a viewing: it is not the interested party who asks, it is you who invites. First someone applies through the chat, then you find the «Invite to an interview» button in the listing. The people you can choose from are exactly those who contacted you about this listing — nobody else. You pick the time and the form: on site, by video or by phone. The invited person can accept, decline or propose a different time; from there everything runs like any other appointment, including the reminder the day before. For video and phone, the dial-in details belong in the chat and not in the meeting-place field. That is not red tape: links in an appointment field would look as if we had checked them. And the sentence we would rather say once too often: never ask for money or copies of ID documents for an interview. Both are the hallmark of dubious offers, and we follow up on reports about them.

Same category, opposite direction: choose Job wanted in the listing, and it introduces you instead of a position. There is no apply button and no interview invitation — employers get in touch via chat. Salary and start date are your expectations, and the job reporting duty doesn’t apply to you. The job search can show offers and wanted listings separately.