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Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 12:08:02 -0700
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Dear Swiss-Listers,
Thanks for all your contributions to the brain-drain discussion, summarized by
Laurent Mieville. I think your comments should be forwarded to various
important people in Switzerland and I have therefore asked Laurent if he could
make the information available in the appropriate format. We'll see what the
effect of this will be ...
In addition, let me give you some updates about what is changing in Switzerland
right now, and what tools are available to do at least part of what you
suggest.
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> Create specific Research Grants for the re-entry of Swiss Researchers.
In addition to the existing Foerderungsprofessuren of SNF, we at the Swiss
Science & Technology Offices are working on a new privatly funded project which
we hope to launch this fall ... stay tuned !
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> "Companies in Switzerland should be informed REPEATEDLY about the existence
> of Swiss "brains" abroad; many companies still hire locally, i.e people who
> have never left Switzerland (!) and do not bother looking abroad. So all
> companies and headhunters in Switzerland should be
> encouraged to consider Swiss brains abroad: some information work is needed.
> Create a web-site (a la swiss-list) specially designed for Swiss abroad,
> which fosters networking between Swiss abroad and Swiss companies. Should
> contain resources like company descriptions (of ones which are especially
> interested in returning Swiss citizens).
For the Swiss brains abroad we have created "SwissTalents - The Knowledge
Network of expatriated talents", at http://www.swisstalents.org. Many of you
are already members, but some of your aren't (yet). This directory is currently
widely publicized in Switzerland, in universities, institutions, the media
(Bilanz, Tages-Anzeiger, le Temps, Bilan, l'Hebdo, etc.), etc. We hope to be on
TV this fall, and will continue to heavily promote this NETWORKING tool (its
primary goal is networking, the use as a reservoir of people-to-hire is a
useful side-product)
Some companies have already recognized the value of this directory to find (and
hopefully) hire talented people. McKinsey for instance has recently used
SwissTalents to identify about 150 people they have invited (all costs paid !)
to meetings in various locations in North America. About 20 of these talents
showed up at the San Francisco meeting about a month ago !...
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> How well aware are head hunters of the pool of Swiss people in the US?
> Especially in computer science, many jobs either go over head hunters or by
> direct contact. Living here, we are simply in another network than the Swiss
> one, so direct contacts do not work that well. Job fairs with participation
> of companies as well as head hunters would make real sense, at least if they
> send people that know something about the companies and the jobs (not mere
> resume collectors).
Most head-hunters work throught referrals, which means that all it is about is
networking, networking, networking. Give your business card to as many people
as possible. You can even actively contact the recruitment consultants and send
them your resume. To do that, you will find lots of useful resources,
addresses, etc. on the Swiss-List Website, as well as on the SwissJobs page of
the SwissTalents Website (http://www.swisstalents.org/SwissJobs). This page
will be dramatically updated soon, and the corresponding information sent to
all SwissTalents members.
There are also many mailing lists that can be subscribed to receive job offers.
One of them - eJobs - is managed here in San Francisco, and contains only job
descriptions suitable to SwissTalents members (i.e. FH or university degree
holders). To subscribe just go to http://www.swisstalents.org/eLists and mark
the corresponding check-box.
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> So what am I and the ones I know looking for when coming back to CH? Jobs at
> Swiss Startups or small high/bio-tech companies. But finding those jobs
> isn't as easy as in the SV. First because there aren't that many VC funded
> companies and secondly no "central" location for finding them all.
Of course, there is no "central" location to find all american startups either.
But looking at Switzerland, through the electronic newsletter "eNews", which
tries to bring mainly to expats news about science, technology, education and
innovation, in and around Switzerland, you would find many of the information
you are looking for. As "eNews" archives are searchable, let me point to some
issues of this newsletter (http://www.topica.com/lists/eNews/read) :
Venture Capital : # 1 + 3
Start-up companies : # 2 + 3 + 10 + 11 + 14
Help / environment for startups / ventures : # 6 + 8 + 9 + 14
Biotech : # 4 + 6 + 12
and there is of course much more, for instance on academia, grants, national
programmes, etc., and links to other useful sites.
"eNews" is based on an opt-in mailing list, and is part of a group of thematic
newsletter which can all be separately subscribed. Just go to
http://www.swisstalents.org/eLists and mark the corresponding check-boxes.
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Hoping this helps ...
Regards,
Christian
_______________________________________________________________
Christian Simm, PhD
Swiss Science & Technology Office for Western USA and Western Canada
Consulate General of Switzerland
456 Montgomery Street, Suite 1500
San Francisco, CA 94104 (USA)
phone : (415) 788-2272, extension 107 (direct) or 0 (operator)
fax : (415) 788-1402
e-mail : simm_at_sciencelink.org
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