The Career Advisory Service (SAR) informs and counsels ICRC personnel on professional mobility and career development. It helps them to:

• renew contact with local economic reality, in particular following a prolonged period spent abroad;

• think about their professional development in the medium term;

• identify the means required for that development;

• get in touch with a network of former ICRC delegates and with employment and training professionals;

• define a new career orientation.

Promoting professional development

The Career Advisory Service is the executive unit of a foundation created by the ICRC, the Avenir Foundation. The Foundation's aim is to attenuate the inevitable consequences of working for the ICRC. By means of the Capital Avenir, it finances services giving international staff the means of developing their careers in the medium and long terms.

The Career Advisory Service maintains contacts with the Swiss private sector and public administrations. It endeavours to enhance understanding of the skills and profiles of ICRC staff, which are often relatively unknown on the job market.

Employment opportunities and roster of profiles

On its extranet site, the Career Advisory Service proposes:

• targeted employment opportunities, which are constantly updated, for those wishing to give a new direction to their careers;

• a roster of profiles of staff members and former staff members, for interested companies and people.
  
  
  
  

  Professional mobility

  Successful career shifts