{"id":95225,"date":"2026-03-28T09:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/95225\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:29:44","slug":"job-search-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/95225\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Search Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gtm0fbw9lnrg1.png\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hi All,<\/p>\n<p>thought I would share my experience around my job search in the  last 4 months. Some rough details to my situation coming into the job search:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost 30ys old, swiss<\/li>\n<li>Engineering BSc<\/li>\n<li>5ish years of work experience<\/li>\n<li>EFZ in technical area<\/li>\n<li>Looking for roles in the technical area with a business part like  MS solutions consultant\/project engineer\/process engineering\/manufacturing engineer\/IT infra management\/digitalisation<\/li>\n<li>Left a company that was laying off all of the Swiss workforce.<\/li>\n<li>Looking for a role in greater z\u00fcrich metro area<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The amount of rejections that I got was initially quite frustrating since they were rather quick and generic rejection emails. Therefore I tried to add more of the keywords into the CV that I need, as well as adding them to the Skills section on these myworkday websites for applications to avoid any automatic filtering. I would say I have a clean professional CV and where necessary spend some thought on the motivational letters, 50-60% AI with some personal touches. Since I was looking for a role that combines technical experience with some kind of business aspect like consulting, i would get the feedback often that the missing consulting experience was the factor for not continuing. I mostly searched for jobs on LinkedIn, a bit on jobsDOTch. <\/p>\n<p>My takeaways from the 4 months that it took.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spend some time thinking about the names the roles could have that match your experience, these days companies like to fluff the role names. <\/li>\n<li>When invited for an interview, spend time to come up with good questions for the interviewer, what keeps you at the company\/does this role solve an issue or is it expansion<\/li>\n<li>I found it to be easier for me to adapt myself when clearly knowing if the company is smaller more local or larger and international <\/li>\n<li>After every interview i would follow up same day not later. Even if rejected I would follow up, thank and show my interest for the future.  I found the saying of &quot;you meet everyone twice&quot; to be true so many times in my life so I want to leave all interactions in a good manner<\/li>\n<li>If you feel that theres a personal topic in common with the interviewer during introductions, inquire about it, show curiosity, it makes everything else easier and less formal<\/li>\n<li>When receiving interview invitations, I&#39;d look up all parties on linkedIn to see how long they&#39;ve been at the company and what their background is, I&#39;d reference their experience also when asking questions<\/li>\n<li>If the application form asks for salary expectation, write down what you enter, in case you get asked to confirm during the interview. <\/li>\n<li>I had a bad experience with brain teasers in one interview, after that i made sure to do mock brain teasers with chatGPT, which works really well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>\nSad_Bad4999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi All, thought I would share my experience around my job search in the last 4 months. 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