Welcome to bllklly.com's free job listings

Hi! This page aims to provide a free listing of all jobs advertised by Swiss companies on their web sites. Why? For personal use, for a technical challenge, as a public service, and as a trial balloon to see if anyone is interested in this as a paid service. Our main motivation was that the current Swiss job sites are frankly very poor. 90% of the job ads point you to personnel agencies, who will seldom offer you an advantage in landing the job, and can be a disadvantage, since your new employer will have to pay the agency around a month of your salary for the privilege of getting your CV from them. A few job sites do offer job ads from companies - jobsuchmaschine.ch is the best - check 'em out. But they only cover a handful of the companies that are out there.

These job listings were generated fully automatically; this is both their strength and their weakness. It's a strength, because they can be kept up to date with no human intervention, so you'll see new jobs as soon as they're published. But it's also a weakness, because it's difficult to interpret all the nuances of language and web page structure when you're only a piece of software. We've already done a lot of work to find the greatest number of job ads with the least amount of junk, but it's a never-ending task, and we're offering this service for free, working on it only in our spare time.

Click here to proceed to the job listings, or read on for details and legal information.

Known limitations and weaknesses

1. We don't cover more than half the Swiss firm sites. Various ways in which web pages and sites are structured make it difficult to find the job section if it's there.
2. It's quite difficult to distinguish jobs in Switzerland from those in other places. Often the same company has jobs in different places, maybe even listed on the same page. So maybe 5-10% of the jobs listed here aren't in Switzerland.
3. Our automatic job title recognizer is far from perfect. It will miss some job titles and point out things that use the same words. The "General" category in particular contains lots of general statements about "Mitarbeiter" and "Experten", but also various job ads that our software couldn't (at present) automatically categorize.
4. The job descriptions don't reliably filter out `job profiles' of jobs that the company offers in good times, that aren't actually available now. This isn't so bad - those companies might be good candidates for sending a spontaneous application (Blindbewerbung).
5. We make a half-hearted attempt to find the locations mentioned in a job ad. These may not be accurate, they may be the address of the personnel department and not where the job is located, and they may be occasionally be something silly like `Zu' or `Telefon'. We think this is still useful, as you can quickly see that a job in Geneva is unsuitable if you're looking in St. Gallen, in the cases where we did find an address.
6. The job categories may not be the most logical. Partly they're based on our personal needs, partly on what's easiest to distinguish based on job title.
7. The "First Seen" date tells when we first saw the job ad. If we only started to check the site recently, the job may be much older.

Updates

Feedback

We're always interested in feedback on how to improve the service. The main problem is that we already have dozens of ideas and no time to implement them, so realistically speaking, your ideas will only be added to our long 'to do' list. But we would like to hear your impressions anyway!

Legal

The use of this index for your personal use is allowed. You may not redistribute it or use it for profit.

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