Careers
USI graduates can benefit from one-to-one career guidance and dedicated placement services.
In particular, as a USI graduate you can access the online job bank with your NetID and password.
The Alumni service is available to USI graduates for personalized vocational guidance session(s), CV review and update, tips, advice and professional contacts, including those of USI graduates that are already active in the workplace.
If you are looking for starting points and professional contacts, check here:
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Job Offers
The Career Service would be glad to assist you with any further information or clarification.
Please remember that our data bank is a tool designed to support your search for a job: graduates are yet fully responsible for their own search. -
Counselling
By appointment, the Career Service provides one-to-one guidance on how to write a curriculum vitae (CV), a motivation letter, how to prepare for a job interview, and how best to conduct an internship or employment search.
To book an appointment:
- Call the Career Service or send an e-mail indicating what you require (you may not need a full career advisory meeting but simply a brief interview)
- Draft a curriculum vitae and a letter of motivation, and bring them with you to the interview and send a copy in advance by email to the Career Service it will help your careers advisor to prepare better for the session.
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Salary
Would you like to check your salary? Here some websites and surveys on salaries in Switzerland and abroad:
- Payscale, what am I worth & what schould I pay?
- Robert Walters Survey on salary 2016
- Glassdoor, see how your salary stacks up!
- Jobpricing, salaries in Italy
In Switzerland:
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Grants for USI Alumni
Each year scholarships and grants are available to USI graduates:
- EMBA Scholarships: scholarships for the USI Executive Master of Science in Business Administration - EMBA
- CAS Scholarships: scholarships for the USI Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS)
- SEMP Scholarship (Swiss Euopean Mobility Programme): placement scholarships granted for internships abroad in one of the EU Countries
- BIP Scholarships (Career Service Scholarship for International Placement): placement scholarships granted for internships abroad in one of the non-EU Countries
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Newsletter Career
Each week, the Career Service publishes an online newsletter that contains:
- a summary of all the latest offers of internship and job opportunities for USI students and graduates,
- the calendar of the activities organized by the service,
- the Career Story of the week.
The newsletter is sent by email to all students and graduates up to 12 months after graduation.
Interested USI graduates and firms may request their copy by email.
Contact the service for more information.
