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Knowledge meets practice – we are your partner for big plans

Start your professional future with PostFinance and benefit from training that provides far more than just financial knowledge, depending on the job profile. In collaboration with Swiss Post, we offer attractive and future-oriented training. Together with our committed training partners, we prepare you with professionalism and passion and for the world of work. Be inspired by our varied opportunities for baccalaureate holders.

Our apprenticeships at a glance

  • Services and administration sector

    After successfully completing your baccalaureate, the Way-up commercial apprenticeship offers an opportunity to gain a Federal VET Diploma and gather your first professional experience. Thanks to practical experience, you can then register directly at a University of Applied Sciences or work in a qualified role alongside your studies at a university, school of education or Federal Institute of Technology.

    You can start your training in the fields of finance, human resources, marketing, sales and product management. The two-year training programme begins in August and includes several placements in different business units at Swiss Post and PostFinance.

  • Are you looking for a career in information technology after your baccalaureate? Then we can offer you exciting training as a Way-up Computer Scientist Federal VET Diploma (accelerated apprenticeship) specializing in application development or platform development:

    Specializing in application development

    As a Way-up Computer Scientist specializing in application development, you analyze software problems and come up with solutions. You also write your own prototypes, set up test environments and launch applications.

    Specializing in platform development

    As a Computer Scientist specializing in platform development, you handle ICT infrastructure and related services and will also be at home in the virtual world. You help protect our company against hacking attacks and ensure the entire IT system works perfectly.

  • Would you like to start a degree course after your baccalaureate while also gaining valuable practical experience in various fields of IT? Then the Bachelor’s degree with integrated practical training (PiBS) could be perfect for you. As part of your practical professional training, you are familiarized with software and network configuration, software development, database configuration and website and platform development. You start with one year of basic training in the learning environment of Swiss Post’s ICT campus. You expand your practical knowledge through modular learning units and smaller projects. From the second year of study, you acquire professional practical experience in the Swiss Post or PostFinance IT training locations in the Bern area. Throughout four years as a part-time student, you attend lectures at the Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (FFHS), Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) or the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). During the degree programme, you specialize in web and data science, enterprise computing or information security and graduate with a BSc in Computer Science.

Fancy some insider views?

This is what our apprentices from the Competence Center for Young Professionals (CCYP), an internship at PostFinance, have got to say.

Are you interested?

Then visit the Swiss Post website for all information about the various training opportunities.