brefis personal

What brefis personal does

brefis personal ag is a privately held Swiss staffing and recruitment company headquartered in Zug and operating across German-speaking Switzerland through branch offices in Zürich, Aargau, and Luzern. The firm provides three core services — Temporärstellen (temporary staffing), Try & Hire (a three-month trial-to-permanent placement model), and Festvermittlung (permanent placement, including executive and expert search) — targeting employers primarily in construction and finishing trades, electrical and mechanical trades, industry and production, IT, and administration/HR/consulting. The company also operates a wholly-owned healthcare-focused sub-brand, brefis-care.ch, which supplies temporary staff to hospitals, nursing homes, medical practices, and private Spitex home-care services.

The underlying technology is a recruitment-matching platform paired with a regional Job-Ticker vacancy board filtered by Swiss canton and occupation group, and a candidate registration portal supporting mobile (SMS-based) and email onboarding. Consultants engage directly with employers through regional branches, supported by a self-service online layer that lets employers post vacancies and candidates browse or register independently. The company emphasizes industry-experienced consultants (many with prior construction-site backgrounds), a 24-hour response-time commitment, and swissstaffing SQS quality certification as differentiators.

Revenue is generated through transaction-fee arrangements on each staffing engagement — temporary placements, Try & Hire conversions, and permanent placement fees — with pricing negotiated per engagement and not publicly disclosed. GTM combines sales-led direct engagement in the Zürich, Aargau, and Luzern regions with a direct-to-consumer candidate funnel via the online vacancy board, and includes a dedicated recruitment channel for EU citizens seeking Swiss employment with permit and relocation support. The firm claims 30 years of industry experience, while its legal entity was incorporated in 2016.

Name

brefis personal

Legal name

brefis personal ag

Website

https://brefis.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

brefis personal ag is a privately held Swiss staffing firm providing temporary, Try & Hire, and permanent placement services across construction, trades, healthcare, IT, and administrative verticals in German-speaking Switzerland, supported by regional branch offices in Zürich, Aargau, and Luzern.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Staffing & Recruitment Services

NAICS

Temporary Help Services (56132)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPACAFAF

Administrative, Clerical & Office Support Direct Hire

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Permanent Placement & Direct Hire

SECONDARYBPACAFAH

Healthcare Clinical Direct Hire (Nursing/Allied/Physicians)

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Permanent Placement & Direct Hire

Keywords

• Temporary staffing services
• Permanent placement recruitment
• Swiss employment services
• Construction industry staffing
• Healthcare staffing solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Temporary Staffing (Personalverleih/Temporärstellen): Provision of temporary workers to client companies. Workers are employed by brefis and assigned to client companies for varying durations based on project needs and seasonal demand fluctuations.
2. Try & Hire: Trial employment model where candidates work for the client company initially. After a 3-month evaluation period, the employee can be hired permanently with simplified termination terms during the trial period.
3. Permanent Placement (Festvermittlung): Executive and expert search services matching candidates with companies for permanent positions. Full recruiting process handled by brefis including candidate screening and interview coordination.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

brefis personal ag provides temporary staffing (Temporärstellen), Try & Hire trial-to-permanent placement, and permanent placement (Festvermittlung) services to employers in German-speaking Switzerland, with a specialization in construction, finishing trades, electrical/mechanical, industrial production, and (via its brefis-care.ch sub-brand) healthcare sectors. The company also recruits EU citizens seeking Swiss employment, offering support with work permits and relocation.

Product overview

brefis personal ag is a staffing and recruitment services company operating in the German-speaking region of Switzerland. The company offers three core services: Temporärstellen (temporary staffing), Try & Hire (trial-to-hire placement), and Festvermittlung (permanent placement). The company specializes in specific industry sectors including Construction & Crafts (Bau & Handwerk), Electrical & Mechanical (Elektro & Mechanik), Medical/Healthcare (with dedicated sub-brand brefis-care.ch), IT, and Administration/HR/Consulting. brefis operates as a unified service portfolio where all offerings share a common recruitment software platform and network of regional offices in Zurich, Aargau, and Lucerne.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• brefis-care: Specialized healthcare staffing solutions including temporary staffing for hospitals, nursing homes, medical practices, and private Spitex services across German-speaking Switzerland.

Products and services

• Temporärstellen (Temporary Staffing) Provision of on-demand temporary workers employed by brefis and assigned to client companies for varying durations. Used by employers in construction, finishing trades, electrical/mechanical, industrial production, and manufacturing to manage seasonal demand fluctuations, project surges, and workload peaks.
• Try & Hire Trial employment model where candidates initially work for the client company on assignment. After a 3-month evaluation period, the employee can be hired permanently by the client, with simplified termination terms available during the trial period.
• Festvermittlung (Permanent Placement) Executive and expert search service matching candidates with companies for permanent positions. brefis handles the full recruiting process including candidate screening, interview coordination, and placement across construction, finishing, electrical/mechanical, industrial, and administrative sectors.
• brefis-care.ch Healthcare Staffing Specialized healthcare staffing service providing qualified temporary staff for hospitals, nursing homes, medical practices, and private Spitex (home-care) services across German-speaking Switzerland. Covers all nursing areas for short-term emergency placements and long-term engagements.

Quantifiable outcome

• Standard 24-hour response time for client inquiries and candidate matching requests
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• brefis-care.chcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSpecialized healthcare staffing subsidiary operating under brefis personal ag umbrella. Focused on providing temporary staffing solutions for hospitals, nursing homes, medical practices, and private Spitex services across German-speaking Switzerland. Covers all nursing areas for short-term emergency placements and long-term engagements.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Grafton Recruitment Switzerland: International recruitment firm with Swiss offices offering temporary, permanent, and contract staffing. Comparable to brefis because it targets similar mid-market employers in administration, IT, and industrial sectors across German-speaking Switzerland.
• Kelly Services Switzerland: Global staffing provider with Swiss operations across temporary, permanent, and outsourcing solutions. Comparable because of similar sector breadth including industrial, administrative, and professional staffing for the same mid-market Swiss employer base.
• Randstad Switzerland: Major multinational staffing firm operating across Switzerland with similar offerings in temporary staffing, permanent placement, and try-and-hire. Closely comparable because it targets the same German-speaking Swiss employer base and trades/industrial verticals as brefis.
• Michael Page Switzerland: Permanent placement and professional recruitment firm with strong Swiss presence, particularly in administrative, HR, and consulting roles. Comparable because it competes for the same Festvermittlung (permanent placement) engagements that brefis offers in the admin/HR/consulting segment.
• Gi Group Switzerland: Global staffing firm with significant presence in Swiss temporary and permanent placement, particularly strong in industrial and technical trades. Comparable to brefis because it serves the same construction, electrical/mechanical, and production verticals with overlapping candidate pools.
• Hays Switzerland: Specialist professional staffing firm focused on white-collar and technical placements including IT and engineering. Comparable to brefis because it addresses similar mid-market employer needs in technical/IT verticals that brefis lists among its customer segments.
• ManpowerGroup Switzerland: Global staffing firm with deep Swiss operations offering temporary, permanent, and workforce solutions. Comparable because it serves the same construction, industrial, and administrative segments in German-speaking Switzerland, with overlapping candidate pools and similar GAV-compliant billing structures.

Regional players

• Interiman (Interiman Group): Swiss staffing specialist offering temporary and permanent placement with strong regional coverage in German-speaking Switzerland. Comparable because it competes head-to-head with brefis for the same SME and mid-market employers in construction and industrial sectors, often as a direct substitute for brefis's Try & Hire and Temporärstellen services.
• Tempro Personal AG: Swiss temporary staffing specialist focused on construction, industry, and trades with offices across Switzerland. Comparable because it directly overlaps with brefis's core construction/trades temp-staffing offering and serves a similar German-speaking regional employer base.

Broad incumbents

• Adecco Group: Global staffing leader headquartered in Zurich, dominating the Swiss temporary staffing and permanent placement market across all sectors brefis serves. Directly comparable because it competes for the same employers in construction, industrial, healthcare, and administrative staffing, but at vastly greater scale and breadth.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/brefis_jobs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/brefis-personal-ag

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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