So what has happened since we moved to Switzerland at the end of July? Here we want to highlight the formalities when it comes to 3 months living in Switzerland and the topics such as work, housing, banking, health insurance and life in general. Since our interesting Swiss customs experience between Germany and Switzerland, and settling in from sorting everything out health insurance, city registration, residence permit etc , we are finally at the stage that nearly!
Regarding work in Switzerland, everything has been going great for our expat experience in Switzerland. I have been able to work without any issues with my old team from the Netherlands, so not much actually changed except for being located in Switzerland instead of the Netherlands.
Since covid we were already doing most work related things from home, so this also helped keep it easy since I just work from home from another country now. I am however now looking for a new job locally or one that I can do from home. This is simply because I cannot stay working for the same Dutch team since this is ultimately a Netherlands based role supporting Netherlands colleagues only.
So if you have any tips for a HR position in Switzerland, let me know! Getting my residence permit definitely took a lot longer than expected.
I had of course applied for this way back at the beginning of July before I had even left the Netherlands. There were a few mishaps along the process, such as my application needing original signatures instead of the digital signatures that was used. So this delayed the permit by a few weeks. Once they had the application form with original signatures, I received a permit appointment for 2 weeks later.
