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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: Let my People go Surfing

Take any chairlift or hiking trail in Switzerland and chances are you’ll see people wearing or carrying Patagonia gear. The founder, Yvon Chouinard, never set out to build a successful business empire or become a sustainability pioneer. But he was named by Time Magazine in 2023 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Here's why we like his story.

  • The Recruitment Team

Mountain Legends: Mont Blanc

We’re doing a series of posts celebrating the brave feats of our team’s favourite mountain legends. This month is about Western Europe’s highest mountain, Mont Blanc, conquered in 1786. Many previous attempts had failed. At that point in history, equipment was far from sophisticated, and the fear of venturing into the mountains and never returning was very real.

  • The Recruitment Team

How good are the AI Robots at Swiss German?

 

How do AI tools fare when it comes to Swiss German? Even for fluent speakers of high German, it takes a while to get your head around the Schwiizerdütsch dialect. Just as you feel you are winning the race in Zürich to comprehend us locals, one short train trip to Bern or Canton Uri can leave you scratching your head.

 

  • 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.

 

  • The Recruitment Team

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