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Search for Occupancies and Skills
Discover more than 1,200 professions available on the website Job-Room, the activities carried out, the skills required, training and neighboring professions. More than 13,800 skills documented from the ESCO framework developed by the European Union.
A tool for...
Job seekers
- Identification of your professional skills
- Discovery of the PLASTA occupancies best suited to your professional activity
Employers
- Identification of the professional skills required for your job offer
- Identification of the PLASTA occupancies corresponding to your job offer
Employment service professionals
- Identification of the occupancies and skills associated with the PLASTA occupancies available since January 2020.
- Identification of the professional skills of the job seekers
Job seeker, employer or employment service professional...
ricrac.ch: an evolving reference framework that allows you to speak the same language on professions and skills.
Useful information to start
Using keywords find informations on professions and skills according to the Swiss and European professional nomenclatures.
This information is in the form of sheets that may contain descriptions and related skills. It allows to identify the essential PLASTA Occupation Titles for employment services in Switzerland.
- Description
- Provides information on activities carried out in the professions from orientation.ch. By clicking on the source, the user accesses the original complete business sheet. The information is not available in English.
- Skills
- Provides information on the skills necessary to carry out the activities of the profession. The source of information is based on the Multiligual Classification of European Skills, Competences, and Occupations (ESCO) (v. 1.2.0). By clicking on the source, the user directly accesses the ESCO website.
- PLASTA Occupation Titles
- Allows you to visualize in which category of the new Swiss Standard Classification of Occupations CH-ISCO-19 (v. 1.2.1) the PLASTA Occupation Titles have been grouped. Indicates the designation and number of the profession available in the PLASTA system.
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We strive, in close collaboration with our provider, to protect our databases as best as possible from external intrusions, loss, misuse and falsification.
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Last modification: 04.04.2024
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About us
The skills and Professions Online Research Tool (SPORT) was carried out in 2015 as part of a project of the Observatoire romand et tessinois de l'emploi (ORTE) on a mandate from the Conférence romande et tessinoise des chefs de service de l'emploi (CRT). The regional employment centres (RAV) of the French-speaking cantons have also collaborated in the realization of this tool.
In January 2020, the SPORT was redesigned to support employment services professionals in the identification (or discovery) of the new PLASTA Occupation Titles from the Swiss Standard Classification of Occupations CH-ISCO-19.
In March 2022, a complete overhaul of the tool was carried out to associate the new Swiss Standard Classification of Occupations CH-ISCO-19 with the Multiligual Classification of European Skills, Competences, and Occupations (ESCO).
In October 2024, a new configuration of the tool was made to improve the functions of the search engine and to give access to professions and skills in english.
Observatoire romand et tessinois de l'emploi (ORTE)
Phone: +41 22 546 63 33
E-Mail: info@ricrac.ch
Data sources
The data sources exploited by the site are as follows:
- Occupations:
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22'917Swiss Standard Classification of Occupations CH-ISCO-19985PLASTA Occupation Titles3'039ESCO Occupancies1'474Designation of vacant position according to employer
- Skills:
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13'939Skill/competence ESCO
The data sources of the occupancies are dependent on the levels of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) tree. ESCO Occupancies are attached to the fourth level of the ISCO-08 tree. The Swiss Standard Classification of Occupations CH-ISCO-19 adds a fifth level to which the professions are attached.
ISCO-08 is the International Standard Classification of Occupations.
ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations) is the European multilingual classification of Skills, Competences and Occupations.
The Swiss Standard Classification of Occupations CH-ISCO-19 incorporates the first four levels of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08) and has added a fifth level to take into account the particularities of the Swiss labour market.
Glossary
- Swiss Standard Classification of Occupations CH-ISCO-19
The Swiss Standard Classification of Occupations CH-ISCO-19 incorporates the first four levels of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08) and has added a fifth level to take into account the particularities of the Swiss labour market. This classification replaces the Swiss Standard Classification of Occupations from 2000 (SSCO 2000).
- ODS Code
- Corresponds to the code assigned by the OFS in the database of professions and allows a profession to be linked to other nomenclatures.
- ESCO
ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations) is the European multilingual classification of Skills, Competences and Occupations. ESCO works as a dictionary, describing, identifying and classifying professional occupations and skills relevant for the EU labour market and education and training. Those concepts and the relationships between them can be understood by electronic systems, which allows different online platforms to use ESCO for services like matching jobseekers to jobs on the basis of their skills, suggesting trainings to people who want to reskill or upskill etc.
- ISCO-08
ISCO-08 is the International Standard Classification of Occupations. It allows occupation-related statistics to be compared internationally. Its multi-tiered classification of occupations also allows a population's social structure to be analysed.
- Job-Room
- The Job Room is both a job platform and an eService platform designed to help employers, employment agencies and job seekers to search for suitable candidates or job vacancies.
- SPORT
- Skills and Professions Online Research Tool
- PLASTA
- Information system on employment and labour market statistics. Since January 2020, the system has had a database of 1200 professional designations that employers and employment service professionals use to record a profession.
- RICRAC
- French-speaking intercantonal repository on occupancies and skills.
- work.swiss
- The Unemployment Insurance (UI) and public employment service portal. It is the central platform for information and services for job seekers, employers, employement agencies as well as institutions and media.
Full-text Boolean Search
The full-text Boolean search function supports the following operators:
| No operator (default): the word is optional | |
| + | A plus sign in front indicates that this word must be present |
| - | A minus sign in front indicates that this word must be excluded |
| * | The asterisk serves as a truncation operator (or replacement character) |
| " | If you are looking for an exact expression, you can write the expression in quotation marks. The system will search for the words in the order they are indicated in the quotation marks |
The following examples illustrate how the full-text Boolean search is carried out with a query:
web sitesearch |
To search for records that contain at least one of the two words: web or site. |
+web +sitesearch |
To search for the records that contain the two words: web and site. |
+web sitesearch |
To search for the records that contain the word web by placing the highest rank for the records that contain the word site. |
+web -sitesearch |
To search for the records that contain the word web but not site. |
web*search |
To search for the records that contain words starting with web. |