Re:Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy...
by snovv_crash on Sunday June 16, 2019 @03:31PM
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What that really means is that they need to have a job ad open for 3 months that they didn't hire someone else into before they can justify hiring a non-EU citizen. It helps if you're doing something specialized or have some intersection of skills for the justification, but it isn't insurmountable, just hard enough so that they only get the people who really want it.
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Re:Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy...
by ScottFree on Sunday June 16, 2019 @04:58PM
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Do you know an American or Canadian who was hired this way? Or is this speculation?
Re:Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy...
by snovv_crash on Sunday June 16, 2019 @05:52PM
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Me, twice (I changed jobs). However what I do is fairly specialized, so I'm not surprised they weren't able to find someone qualified in 3 months.
The other part of making it hard is so that the employer doesn't undertake the effort unless they really need the person and can't do with a local. I know the company made an exception for me, as they did for one other employee, but for the most part their policy is not to hire non-Swiss/EU citizens due to the administrative burden.