What are the alternatives to LinkedIn Jobs in Switzerland?

The Swiss job portals at a glance

Click an image for the full-size view. What each portal actually is stands beside it.

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   1. SwissJobs.appOur app

   Over 21,000 open Swiss roles from ATS systems, company sites and LinkedIn in one place — and from any advert, straight into a CV, a motivation letter, a CV check and interview prep. The RAV job-search-efforts form fills itself from your application tracker. Free to use; the account is asked for at save.

   SwissJobs.app →

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   2. jobs.ch

   The best-known board in German-speaking Switzerland and the largest index in the country. Owned by JobCloud AG — as are jobup.ch and JobScout24.

   jobs.ch →

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   3. jobup.ch

   The standard in French-speaking Switzerland and the first place to look for the Romandie — but the same JobCloud AG as jobs.ch.

   jobup.ch →

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   4. JobScout24

   A third brand from the same company. Searching all three to widen your search means searching one provider three times.

   JobScout24 →

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   5. Indeed Switzerland

   The broadest aggregation, because Indeed also collects from other boards — at the cost of many duplicates of the same advert.

   Indeed Switzerland →

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   6. LinkedIn Jobs

   The best reputation for English-speaking and international roles in Switzerland. Considerably thinner for trades, care and commercial roles.

   LinkedIn Jobs →

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   7. jobagent.ch

   A meta-search across the Swiss job boards, "every job in Switzerland at a glance". Its strength is the Job-Abo: a saved search that mails you new adverts from every portal it covers. Salary calculator and application guides alongside.

   jobagent.ch →

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   8. SwissDevJobs

   IT and software only, and thorough about it: "183 IT & Software developer jobs in Switzerland", filtered by technology (C#, Java, Python, DevOps, ML) rather than by industry. Publishes salary statistics and lists the companies that disclose their ranges. The site itself is in English.

   SwissDevJobs →

The six alternatives side by side

Checked without an account on 4 and 5 September 2026. "Not stated" means we could not read it on the provider’s page — not that it does not exist. Our own figures come from the code and from walking the flow.

1. SwissJobs.app — Swiss adverts and the dossier in one place

A job search for Switzerland only, filtered by canton, workload and date, with the application tools beside it: CV, motivation letter, a check against the same advert, interview preparation, a tracker. Searching is free; a free account allows five documents a day and ten a rolling week, then CHF 15 a month. For anyone applying here who wants a dossier per advert rather than one profile for everything. The honest limitation: we have no network — nobody discovers you here — and our index is smaller than the one at jobs.ch. Just under a quarter of our adverts are a week old or less.

2. jobs.ch — the board Swiss employers know

The largest private Swiss board, searchable without an account, with the filters that matter here — Pensum (workload in per cent), language, field, contract type — and a salary calculator next to it; free for jobseekers. Worth using precisely because employers recognise it, which is brand weight we are not going to overtake. The limitation: the interface exists in German, French and English but not Italian, and jobs.ch and JobScout24 both name JobCloud AG in their imprint while JobCloud advertises jobs.ch and jobup.ch as its own portals — so searching all three means searching one provider three times.

3. Job-Room — official, free, and five working days early

The job portal of the public employment service on arbeit.swiss: four national languages plus English, searchable without an account, free. The reason to use it is the job registration requirement, in force since 1 July 2018: employers must report vacancies in occupations with high unemployment to the RAV before advertising them publicly, and those vacancies then stay for five working days in the area reserved for registered jobseekers. No private board can offer that head start.

Which is also its limit for readers abroad: the head start needs an RAV registration, and that needs a Swiss residence. Anyone can search the public part; only registered jobseekers see the protected part. Job-Room says itself that private online services may support the search, but that submissions tied to a deadline must go through its own eServices or the route the RAV designates. That applies to us too.

4. Indeed Switzerland — the four-language aggregator

The Swiss arm of the largest aggregator: rendered on 5 September 2026 it was searchable without an account, offered in German, French, English and Italian, and asked for an account only for personalised recommendations. Good for a broad first pass, especially when you do not yet know what your job is called in Switzerland. The limitation: it is a global product with a Swiss front, and it shows — the German version talks about "Gehälter" rather than Löhne, which is German usage, not Swiss. For the record, our automated request was refused on 4 September; what is described here is the rendered page a day later.

5. The employer’s careers page — where the application ends up anyway

Not a board but a fact about this market: in our index the apply link leads to the employer’s own website for 51.7% of adverts and into an applicant system for another 36.6%, leaving 11.7% on a different board. It pays off if you have a list of ten to twenty target employers — 45.7% of the employers in our index have exactly one advert open, which is the kind of small firm, practice or municipality that never buys visibility on a platform. The limitation is obvious: there is no search across employers, and building the list is work no platform does for you.

6. jobup.ch — only if you are looking west

The board for French-speaking Switzerland, free for jobseekers, interface in French and English. Around 17% of the adverts in our index sit in the Romandie, and of those whose language we can determine 56.4% are written in French and 37.5% in English — so if you are aiming at Geneva, Lausanne or Neuchâtel it belongs in the rotation, and if you are not, it is noise. The limitation: same owner as jobs.ch, no German interface, and no CV tailored to a specific posting.

Who should stay with LinkedIn

Anyone who wants to be found rather than to search. #OpenToWork signals availability and recruiters do search profiles actively — that cannot be rebuilt without millions of profiles, and none of the six above tries. The same holds for a discreet move while employed, and for roles that exist in Switzerland only a few dozen times.

And for English-language work. In our index the language is determinable for three quarters of adverts; 27.4% of those are written in English, rising to 42.8% in the Zurich region, and that is where LinkedIn is dense. The caveat belongs next to it: of English-written adverts that state a language requirement, 25.6% still ask for German. English opens the door; it does not replace the national language. The sensible answer is not either-or — keep the profile visible so someone can find you, and run the actual search where you can filter by canton and workload. Our head-to-head with LinkedIn Jobs is at swissjobs.app/questions/alternative-to-linkedin-jobs-switzerland.