Banks are looking for fewer staff, fourth consecutive month of decline
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Swiss banks looked for fewer staff in November, marking the fourth consecutive month of falling vacancies.
In total, the number of job offers stood at 610, down 2% from October, according to the survey conducted by job portal Indeed for financial news agency AWP. The results are based on an analysis of job offers posted on the websites of the country’s ten largest banking institutions.
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The contraction was, however, less severe than in previous months: the total volume fell by a quarter during the period under review. For the purposes of the evaluation, only job offers based in Switzerland were taken into account, apprenticeships and internships were not taken into account.
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It is also worth mentioning that there is no contraction everywhere: Raiffeisen and UBS, the two entities with the most vacancies, recorded increases in vacancies of 7% and 4% respectively.
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