Zurich regional job centre. (Keystone/Martin Rütschi)
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Waiting room in the regional job centre in the central town of Altdorf. (Keystone/Urs Flüeler)
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Meeting a job counsellor in Suhr, in the northern canton of Aargau. (Keystone/Gaetan Bally)
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Swiss president, Doris Leuthard, visits a work assignment programme run by HEKS (Swiss interchuch Aid) in March 2010. (Keystone/Marcel Bieri)
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And of course, you have to scrutinise the small ads. (Keystone/Gaetan Bally)
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That job you advertised, are you still looking for someone? (Keystone/Gaetan Bally)
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Young unemployed people in Zurich clean up after the Sechseläuten celebration as part of the social services work assignment programme. (Keystone/Alessandro della Bella)
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The archives of the Lausanne regional job centre. (Keystone/Andrée-Noëlle Pot)
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In Lausanne, like everywhere else, the job centre checks how clients are looking for work. (Keystone/Andrée-Noëlle Pot)
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The regional job centre in Sargans, in the eastern canton of St Gallen. (Keystone/Gaetan Bally)
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Looking for a job takes a lot of work.
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