What is an alternative to jobs.ch?
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In short
The closest alternative to jobs.ch is SwissJobs.app: a Swiss job index that also builds a CV tailored to each individual advert. The honest part first — jobs.ch is bigger. On 24 August 2026 its own homepage listed just over forty-four thousand open positions, more than thirty-six thousand of them in German-speaking Switzerland alone. If sheer choice in the German-speaking cantons is what you need, stay there. If you want adverts that never appear on jobs.ch, or a CV rewritten for each posting you apply to, this is the better fit.
The Swiss job portals at a glance
Click an image for the full-size view. What each portal actually is stands beside it.
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.
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.
The standard in French-speaking Switzerland and the first place to look for the Romandie — but the same JobCloud AG as jobs.ch.
A third brand from the same company. Searching all three to widen your search means searching one provider three times.
The broadest aggregation, because Indeed also collects from other boards — at the cost of many duplicates of the same advert.
The best reputation for English-speaking and international roles in Switzerland. Considerably thinner for trades, care and commercial roles.
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.
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.
Jobs by profession, city or language
Type a profession, a city or a language, the page shows the adverts currently open for it.
By profession
- Consultant
- Project Manager
- Retail Sales
- Nurse
- Nursing & Care
- Administrative Assistant
- Account Manager
- Software Engineer
- Public Administration
- Architect
- Insurance
- Chef
71 more — narrow the search
By work type
Being an alternative means holding different adverts, not the same list in a different colour. That is measurable. Every advert here carries the address where the application actually lands, and those addresses spread across more than two thousand distinct destinations. Exactly 0.1 per cent of them lead to one of JobCloud's three brands — jobs.ch, jobup.ch or jobscout24. The two indexes sit beside each other rather than on top of each other.
There are also things jobs.ch does that we simply do not offer. Employer reviews, for one: jobs.ch keeps a public rating profile for every company and invites readers outright to write an anonymous review. Add a salary calculator built on figures supplied by registered members, a talent pool called Spotted, and a fully built-out employer side. For job seekers all of it is free — our CV tools are not, once the trial ends.
The rest of this answer is what can be shown: how far apart the two indexes really are, where jobs.ch is clearly ahead, why the gap is far narrower in French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino than the headline number suggests, what each salary calculator is actually built on, and which site is right for which search.
Figures published by jobs.ch on its own homepage, retrieved 24 August 2026: 44,462 open positions in total, of which 36,437 in German-speaking Switzerland, 4,233 in French-speaking Switzerland and 281 in Ticino.
- jobs.ch publishes its own figures on its homepage. On 24 August 2026 they read just over forty-four thousand open positions across just over six thousand companies — more than thirty-six thousand of those positions in German-speaking Switzerland, just over four thousand in French-speaking Switzerland, and 281 in Ticino.
- The overlap with our index is close to nothing: for 0.1 per cent of our open adverts, the application route leads to jobs.ch, jobup.ch or jobscout24.
- Where our adverts lead instead: 52.9 per cent straight to the employer's own careers page, 34.3 per cent into an applicant system, and 12.8 per cent to other job platforms.
- The applicant systems behind our adverts are led by Workday at 8.1 per cent and the Swiss provider prospective.ch at 7.2 per cent, ahead of Greenhouse at 2.7 and SmartRecruiters at 1.9 per cent.
- jobs.ch runs in German, French and English — but not in Italian. Requesting jobs.ch/it/ redirects to the German homepage, and the page's own language markup lists only de, fr and en.
- For an English speaker the language line matters more than the interface: 19.8 per cent of our adverts are written in English, yet 24.4 per cent of those still require German. Across the whole index, 49.7 per cent of adverts require German, 29.9 per cent English, 14.9 per cent French and 2.9 per cent Italian.
- Freshness on 24 August 2026: 13.2 per cent of our adverts were posted within the last seven days, 36.4 per cent within fourteen and 58.8 per cent within thirty. The median advert is 21 days old.
- The market is more concentrated than a results page suggests: 4.1 per cent of the employers in our index account for half of all adverts, while 45.4 per cent of employers appear with exactly one.
Who to choose
With jobs.ch it ends at the advert. With us it starts there: the same posting produces the CV, the motivation letter, the check against it, and the entry in your RAV record.
Choose jobs.ch if
jobs.ch — the biggest brand in German-speaking Switzerland, free for jobseekers and searchable without an account.
Choose SwissJobs.app if
Pick the job directly — We run the job index ourselves. The advert text is already loaded, and everything else is written against exactly that text — no searching, no copying, no pasting.
Four tools, not one — CV, motivation letter for the same advert, a CV check against that advert, and interview preparation — one account, the same data.
The RAV sheet — Your job-search efforts are filled from your application tracker and printed as the official SECO form. No other tool in this comparison has it.
Word export, no watermark — PDF and DOCX, both clean. Many tools hand you a text file on the free plan, or stamp a watermark on the document.
Start without an account — The tools open without signing up. The account is asked for to save and from the second document — the first download needs none.
Feature comparison
| Feature | SwissJobs.app | jobs.ch |
|---|---|---|
| Swiss job listings | Yes | Yes |
| All 26 cantons | Yes | not stated |
| Search without an account | Yes | not stated |
| Job alerts by email | Yes | not stated |
| AI match against your profile | Yes | No |
| Build a CV straight from the advert | Yes | No |
| Motivation letter for the advert | Yes | No |
| CV check against that advert | Yes | No |
| Application tracker | Yes | No |
| RAV job-search-efforts form (SECO) | Yes | No |
| Low-competition listings surfaced | Yes | not stated |
| Free to use | Yes | not stated |
| Interface languages | DE / EN / FR / IT | not stated |
| Built in Switzerland | Yes | not stated |
As of 4 September 2026. "not stated" means it could not be read on their own site — not "does not exist". Our rows come from the code (lib/stripe/trialConfig.ts) and from walking the live flow, not from marketing copy.
Pricing side by side
| What you pay | SwissJobs.app | jobs.ch |
|---|---|---|
| Job searchThe search is not part of our subscription. What is paid for is the tools that come after it. | Free — search, filters, job alerts and the application tracker cost nothing | Free for jobseekers |
| Monthly price | CHF 15 — all six tools, one subscription | not stated |
| Yearly price | CHF 95 a year (= CHF 7.92 a month) — the same six tools | not stated |
| Free trialOur seven days are the full product, not a limited preview. | 7 days, full access, cancel any time | not stated |
| What works without payingWe print the limit, because that is the number a comparison usually leaves out. | Tools open without an account; free account: 5 documents/day, 10 per rolling week | not stated |
| Currency | CHF | not stated |
| BillingWatch for four-week billing periods anywhere: that is 13 charges a year, not 12. | Calendar month, cancel any time | not stated |
As of 4 September 2026. "not stated" means it could not be read on their own site — not "does not exist". Our rows come from the code (lib/stripe/trialConfig.ts) and from walking the live flow, not from marketing copy.
What being an alternative measurably means
Two job sites are only genuine alternatives to each other when they show different adverts. If they show the same ones, switching between them changes the interface and wastes an evening. The test is where an application ends up: every advert here carries the address the application is actually sent to, and in our index those addresses spread across more than two thousand distinct destinations.
The largest group, 52.9 per cent, goes straight to the employer's own careers page. Another 34.3 per cent goes into an applicant system, 12.8 per cent to other job platforms — and 0.1 per cent to one of the three JobCloud brands. Put plainly: almost nothing you see here has been taken from jobs.ch.
That is the whole reason to use two sites rather than one. A vacancy a company posts on its own careers page and never buys placement for will not appear on jobs.ch, however large jobs.ch is. Searching a single site is not searching the Swiss job market; it is searching the slice that one site collects.
Where jobs.ch is plainly ahead
On volume in German-speaking Switzerland the question is settled, and not narrowly. On 24 August 2026 the jobs.ch homepage listed more than thirty-six thousand open positions for German-speaking Switzerland alone — more than our entire index across all four language regions combined, from just over six thousand advertising companies. We are not going to close that gap and we do not claim to.
There are also features we simply do not have. jobs.ch maintains a public rating profile for every company and actively invites readers to write an anonymous review; if you want to know how employees talk about an employer, you will not find that with us. Its Job Coach publishes weekly guides, checklists and templates on applications, employment law and pay. Spotted is a talent pool through which employers approach profiles directly.
And for job seekers, none of it costs anything. The money is on the employer side: JobCloud charges CHF 650.- for 31 days in its entry package for German-speaking Switzerland, rising to CHF 1490.- for 60 days at the top, alongside a CHF 290.- seven-day option and a free ten-day product that its own conditions withhold from firms licensed for job placement or staff leasing. JobCloud runs jobs.ch, jobup.ch and jobscout24, and states on its corporate site that thirty thousand Swiss companies use its job boards.
The gap is not the same size in every language region
The headline number hides how unevenly it is spread. Of the just over forty-four thousand positions jobs.ch listed on 24 August 2026, more than thirty-six thousand were in German-speaking Switzerland, just over four thousand in French-speaking Switzerland — and 281 in Ticino. Those are the counts jobs.ch itself displays next to its region filters.
Our index is distributed differently: about 18.2 per cent of adverts name a place in French-speaking Switzerland and about 1.4 per cent a place in Ticino. So in the German-speaking cantons jobs.ch is larger by a multiple; in Romandie and Ticino the two indexes sit in the same order of magnitude. Someone searching west of Bern or south of the Gotthard is not weighing the same balance of power as someone searching in Zurich.
One qualification for Romandie: JobCloud runs a second, French-language brand there in jobup.ch, so the low jobs.ch figure understates the group's reach in the west. For Ticino there is no second brand, and jobs.ch does not even exist in Italian — the Italian address lands on the German homepage.
Two salary calculators, two entirely different foundations
Both sides run a salary tool, and they rest on different things. jobs.ch says so on its own page: salaries there are calculated from figures supplied by thousands of registered jobs.ch members, and are gross. That is self-reported data, and its advantage is granularity — it lets jobs.ch break a single job title down by canton and by town.
Our salary pages rest on the Swiss Earnings Structure Survey 2024 published by the Federal Statistical Office: a gross median of CHF 7024.- a month for full-time work, the lowest tenth below CHF 4635.-, the highest tenth above CHF 12526.-. That is an official survey with a published method, linked and checkable — but coarser than a breakdown per job title.
What we explicitly do not claim is that we derive salaries from the adverts themselves. Very few Swiss adverts state pay at all, and we are not going to pretend to a figure we do not hold. If you want a fine-grained estimate for one specific job title in one specific canton, the jobs.ch calculator serves you better; if you want an official basis you can cite, the federal survey does.
What jobs.ch does not offer: a CV per advert
The jobs.ch Job Coach consists of articles, checklists and templates — when we read it on 24 August 2026 there was no CV generator and no CV checker on it. You can build a profile to apply faster, but a profile is not a document that changes shape for a particular posting.
That is our side of the ledger. The CV builder pulls the advert out of our own index and matches the CV against its actual wording, rather than asking you to paste the text in from somewhere. The mechanism behind it is modest and should stay modest: a CV that uses the advert's own vocabulary matches keyword-based filters better than a generic one. No tool can promise that a filter is passed — nobody can see inside another company's screening.
Two qualifications, in fairness. First, we are not alone in tailoring to a single posting: cvswiss.ch leads with exactly that feature. The real difference is narrower than marketing would like — there you paste the posting in, here it is already in the index, because we are a job board and a CV tool in one. Second, once the seven-day trial ends our tools cost CHF 15.- a month or CHF 95.- a year, while jobs.ch stays free for job seekers throughout. If you only want to search and never to write, you would be paying us for something you do not need.
Which site suits which search
Stay with jobs.ch if you are searching in German-speaking Switzerland and breadth matters more than anything else, if you want to read employer reviews before applying, or if you need a salary estimate for your exact job title. For Romandie the same group's stronger brand is jobup.ch, and the jobs.ch figure understates JobCloud's reach there.
Add SwissJobs.app, or use it instead, if you want vacancies posted directly by the employer — 52.9 per cent of ours are — if you are searching in Italian, or if you want a CV shaped to each advert rather than one standard document sent everywhere. The most useful move is to query both: their overlap is 0.1 per cent, and searching costs nothing on either side.
Two cases where we are not the answer. Anyone registered with an RAV follows their own RAV's instructions and arbeit.swiss for recording job-search efforts — no private site replaces that, and we do not present ourselves as a substitute for it. And anyone who wants to post a vacancy rather than find one will find a fully published price list at JobCloud, free ten-day option included; that is a different question from this one.
Every jobs.ch figure here was read from the jobs.ch and JobCloud homepage, salary page and product pages on 24 August 2026; job sites change, which is why the date is stated. The figures for our own index are shares of the adverts open on 24 August 2026 — we do not publish absolute index sizes. Regional attribution is based on the town named in the advert and is therefore an approximation, not official cantonal statistics.
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What our job index says about the Swiss market
Computed live from our own index, not quoted from a study. Shares only, as of today.
Language the advert is written in
- Deutsch
- 60%
- English
- 23%
- Français
- 13%
- Italiano
- 3%
Of adverts that state a language requirement, the share asking for
- Deutsch
- 70%
- English
- 43%
- Français
- 21%
- Italiano
- 3%
19% posted in the last 7 days · Largest markets: Zürich 18% · Bern 10% · Genève 5% · Basel 5%