All events canceled – existential challenges for millions of people. I bet that if someone would have predicted what the beginning of 2020 will look like, we would not have believed it. This is the nature of predictions. The last weeks have been a roller coaster for me...
We all have lots of plans we would like to see turn into reality. Many of those things we want to do don’t lead us to growth and remain a long lost desire, mainly because we start doubting ourselves. Then there are the people surrounding us who might not...
In the purely economically driven world we seem to live in, everything is about goal setting, take-aways and how to measure that we have done the right thing. In the corporate world, everyone talks about KPIs – standing for Key Performance Indicator – as the one thing that determines...
“I am going home.” With this statement my family was confused. Where is she going? Isn`t she home already? During my vacation in my home country Austria in 2009, during the time I lived in Japan, I said that I am going home, meaning to go back to Japan,...
After a long work meeting in Cern one day, Clare O’Dea, an Irish journalist and writer, sat down in her seat on the train to go home when a man sat down next to her and started up a conversation. Not Swiss himself, he mistakenly took Clare for Swiss...
Sarka Fabre, PWG member and former Job Hunt Support Group attendee, just recently landed her first job in Basel and we want to extend to her a very sincere congratulations on her achievement! Sarka was gracious enough to answer some questions we had regarding her job-hunting journey – here are her...
Beatrix and I met for a casual interview over lunch the other day at the elegant Birseckerhof, one of the restaurants in Basel that offer her “m-eating-table” service. The participating restaurants, like the Birseckerhof, reserve a table for anyone who happens to be eating alone and looking for company,...
After hearing about Tanja’s worldly career path, the most unlikely place she could currently be working would be the most familiar of all locations: Basel. Originally from Basel, Tanja studied History, Communications- and Media Sciences, and European Ethnology at the Universität Basel with a professional focus on Journalism or...
Last Friday’s Job Hunt meeting was the first PWG-Basel event I had attended since I became a member last week, and it was a pleasure to be so warmly welcomed by like-minded people. The location, Bistrot Crescenda, couldn’t have been a more appropriate setting considering how it was founded...
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