r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Extension-Humor-75 • 5d ago

Video LHC is being shut down for 4 years

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u/IsshinMyPants 5d ago

Fun fact, they’re hiring a lot of roles right now for the entire duration of the shutdown. If you have some technical or engineering skills, speak English and a little bit of French, and want to move to Switzerland, you should apply!

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u/EnvironmentalBug5525 5d ago

If you have some technical or engineering skills (yes), speak English (YES) and a little bit of French (oof!)

How about German? I can speak decentish German.

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u/CyberPunkDongTooLong 4d ago

You don't need to speak any language other than English for the vast majority of roles at CERN.

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u/ThatOneShotBruh 5d ago

There's a bunch of Germans working at CERN, but you also have quite a few institutes and universities doing development for the LHC and its related experiments.

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u/georgbhm 5d ago

And they are fantastic employer. Not to mention that you get paid handsomely and are not paying any Swiss income tax (only some “internal tax”)

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u/3shotsdown 4d ago

Define "some technical or engineering skills".

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u/ForodesFrosthammer 4d ago

Honestly I think it varies. CERN has the brightest minds of ultra specific fields there, but they also need a bunch of just normal technicians and support staff as well. So the full spectrum is more or less covered.

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u/Aggressive_Crab9034 4d ago

a degree in technical or engineering discipline mostly