Study: The most popular employers in Switzerland

 The business magazine Bilanz presents a list of the most popular employers in the country among graduates. In an exclusive survey, both women and men put UBS in first place. UBS is followed by CS, with Nestlé in third place for women and ABB for men. For its representative country study, the consultancy firm Universum surveyed 3900 graduates of Swiss universities and universities of applied sciences. Among women, the Federal Administration and the ICRC ranked among the ten most popular addresses. A different picture emerges when popularity is broken down by field of study: While UBS and CS occupy the top positions among business graduates, engineers choose Logitech and IBM as their favorites. The Universum Graduate Survey 2007 also identifies the preferences of graduates: challenging tasks are considered a key criterion by respondents when choosing an employer (38 percent), followed by work-life balance - although this has fallen sharply since last year, from 46 to 38 percent.
 
Rankings by gender Women 1. UBS 2. CS 3. Nestlé 4. L'Oréal 5. Federal Administration 5. Novartis 7. ICRC 8. PricewaterhouseCoopers
9. Procter & Gamble 10. Kuoni
Men 1. UBS 2. CS 3. ABB 4. IBM 4. Nestlé 6. Novartis 7. PricewaterhouseCoopers 8. Logitech
9. McKinsey & Company 10. Ernst & Young