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What are the big topics shaping IT and finance recruitment in Switzerland? Read our latest thinking to stay on top of change.

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What trends and developments are currently shaping the Swiss IT and finance job market? Discover the latest insights from the Nordwand Group and stay well informed.

Mountain Legends: Karl Egloff

What separates good leaders from great ones? It's not who pushes hardest. It's who makes the right call under pressure.
Karl Egloff set out to speed-run Everest: No oxygen, no Sherpa, sub-24 hours.

  • The Recruitment Team

Mountain Legends: Rega

Today, we say a huge thank you to Switzerland’s non-profit air rescue service, Rega. Switzerland is famous for its stunning Alpine scenery, but enjoying the great outdoors comes with risks. When things go wrong, Rega's iconic red-and-white helicopters can reach any point in the country within 15 minutes from its 14 bases.

  • The Recruitment Team

Career Ferrata: Becoming a CIO in Switzerland

Progressing your career can sometimes feel like ascending a steep mountain without route markers or the right equipment. As a recruitment agency that has placed hundreds of senior IT candidates in Switzerland, in this article we are sharing some practical career tips for aspiring CIOs.

  • The Recruitment Team

Leadership Topics

Leadership is a privilege that must be earned every day. It's relatively easy to identify leaders who think that way. They are humble, quick to apologise, admit when they are wrong and go out of their way to ask for help.

Culture Does Not Fracture Overnight. It Erodes – Until Leadership Realigns It.

Few leadership teams collapse in a single meeting. They drift. A decision is delayed by three weeks because ownership was never made explicit. A senior appointment departs within eighteen months, and the exit interview cites “culture fit” – a diagnosis that, in truth, was never made before the individual arrived.

  • Sofia Rodriguez

Culture is a System: What leaders must do to align organizational culture and enable transformation

 

Transformation rarely fails because leaders lack ambition. More often, it fails because the formal organization and the informal organization are moving at different speeds. John O. Burdett’s Cultural Alignment Model helps leaders see culture not as a statement of values, but as a system.

 

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CPO to Board: A conversation about influence, insights and what Boards need next

 

The starting question was simple enough: How does a CPO make the transition to the boardroom? However, it didn’t take long for a harder question to surface: Why, given how central people in an organisation and workforce capability are to performance, are there still so few CPOs at Australian board tables?

  • The Recruitment Team