What is an alternative to jobup.ch?

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 →

Feature comparison

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

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 «alternative» means when you can measure it

A second site is only worth opening if different jobs are on it. Whether that holds can be read off the apply route: each listing carries the address your application is sent to, and in French-speaking Switzerland we count more than six hundred separate such addresses.

The largest group is more pronounced here than nationally: 65.6 per cent of our Romandie adverts apply directly on the employer's own site, 32.0 per cent go into an applicant tracking system and only 2.4 per cent to another job board — against 52.3 per cent and 16.4 per cent across our whole index. The Romandie is the part of our index with the least second-hand material in it.

Two per cent point at a JobCloud brand. So this is not one list shown twice; it is two slices of the same market that barely touch. A Geneva employer who posts a vacancy on their own careers page and never buys a listing is missing from jobup.ch — not through any weakness of the site, but because a board can only show what somebody paid to put there. Looking at both lists costs nothing.

Where jobup.ch is plainly ahead

On volume in the Romandie the argument is over. The region filter returned just over four thousand three hundred positions on 24 August 2026 — more than the whole French-speaking section of our own index. Beyond volume there is something we cannot buy: its own timeline dates the launch to 2000 and market leadership in the Romandie to 2010, and since 2015 jobup.ch has belonged to JobCloud, the joint venture of Ringier and TX Group. It calls itself «la plateforme d'emploi numéro un en Suisse romande».

It also does things we do not offer at all. Every company has a public profile with reviews written by employees. «Spotted» is a talent pool through which employers approach you directly. The CV database makes your profile findable by recruiters — anonymised by default since the revised Swiss data protection act, so a company sees your name and current employer only once you agree. There are mobile apps, and since 12 May 2026 a status tracker for applications you have sent, with the stages «en discussion», «non retenue» and «offre reçue».

The point that matters most for an honest comparison is recent. On 28 July 2026 jobup.ch launched «JobFit»: on every advert it scores in real time how well your stored profile matches the role, shows one of four verdicts, and opens a report listing the skills from your CV that match and the ones that are missing. Anyone claiming that jobup.ch does nothing to compare your CV against a posting has not looked at the site since July.

And for candidates all of it is free. The FAQ is unambiguous: «jobup.ch est un site internet d'emploi complètement gratuit pour les candidats.» The money comes from employers — JobCloud charges CHF 650.- for a thirty-day Romandie listing up to CHF 1250.- for sixty days, plus a CHF 290.- seven-day product and a free ten-day listing visible only on the company's own profile. One detail worth noting: the Romandie packages include an applicant tracking system free, which the equivalent German-speaking packages do not state.

The language question, and why it bites in this particular region

jobup.ch is available in French and in English. That is not an inference — the site's own FAQ says «L'environnement jobup.ch est disponible en français et en anglais», and requesting the German or Italian address lands you on the French home page. For a region that includes bilingual cantons such as Fribourg, Valais and Bern, that is a genuine gap, and it mirrors the one on the other side of the group, where jobs.ch has no Italian version.

Our own listing data shows how wide the gap is. Among our Romandie adverts that state a language requirement at all, 62.6 per cent ask for French, 53.1 per cent for English and 24.2 per cent for German. Nearly one in five — 19.1 per cent — asks for French and German together. Searching for work in French-speaking Switzerland means, for a substantial slice of the market, being able to apply in German.

For an English speaker the numbers cut the other way and are worth knowing before you assume you are locked out: 27.2 per cent of our Romandie adverts are written in English, against 39.8 per cent in French. Geneva drives that, and it is where most people arriving in Switzerland start looking. On our side the same search runs in English, German, French or Italian — which is the substantive reason we are an answer to this question at all, rather than a matter of taste.

How unevenly the Romandie is distributed

A single total hides how lopsided it is. On 24 August 2026 the cantonal filters on jobup.ch returned roughly two thousand two hundred positions for Vaud, twelve hundred for Geneva, just over eight hundred for Valais and just over seven hundred and fifty for Fribourg, just under five hundred for Neuchâtel — and one hundred and sixty-three for Jura. In Jura that is a list you can read through in an afternoon, and you will need a second source whichever site you start on.

Our own Romandie listings are weighted differently: 36.8 per cent name a place in the canton of Geneva, 30.7 per cent in Vaud, 16.1 per cent in Fribourg, 11.0 per cent in Neuchâtel, 4.2 per cent in Valais and 1.3 per cent in Jura. jobup.ch leans towards Vaud, we lean towards Geneva — another practical reason to open both rather than trust one.

Where we come off worse, for completeness: the median Romandie advert we carry is 28 days old and only 25.9 per cent are two weeks old or less, against 22 days and 35.8 per cent across our whole index. jobup.ch stamps every advert with its age and its «recently published» list refills by the minute. If only the newest postings matter, that is the faster place to look.

Two salary tools built on two different things

Both sides have a salary tool and they rest on different foundations. jobup.ch states its own: «Le calcul des salaires est basé sur les indications salariales de milliers d'utilisateurs de jobup.ch.» That is self-reported data, and its advantage is granularity — for every canton the site shows how many reported salaries a figure is based on.

That last number is worth reading before you trust an estimate. On 24 August 2026 the site reported roughly seventy-five thousand salary entries for Vaud, fifty-seven thousand for Geneva, just under five thousand for Jura — and over one hundred and sixty thousand for Zurich. The largest sample behind the Romandie portal's salary tool comes from German-speaking Switzerland. For a Geneva job title the basis is solid; for a Jura one it is thin.

Our salary pages lean on the federal wage structure survey instead: coarser than a breakdown by job title, but officially collected with a published method. We do not read pay out of the adverts themselves — far too few of them state any.

What jobup.ch does not do: a CV per advert

Your jobup.ch profile can produce a CV as a PDF — the FAQ describes the route through «Mon Profil» and the link in the «Documents» section. That is one document generated from your profile, and JobFit additionally tells you how well that profile fits a given advert and which skills are absent. What does not come out of it is a CV rewritten for that specific advert: the assessment ends with a recommendation that you improve your own document and test again.

We begin one step further on. The posting is already in our index, and the document is drafted from its own phrasing — no copying, no pasting, a fresh version per application. What that achieves is limited and is not worth inflating: shared wording helps against filters that sort by keyword. No outcome can be promised from it; 32.0 per cent of our Romandie listings feed a screening system nobody outside the company can see into.

Two limits belong with that. Tailoring to one posting is not our invention — cvswiss.ch advertises it as its headline feature, and anyone claiming sole ownership of the idea is simply not looking. And the tools are paid: seven days to try, then CHF 15.- a month or CHF 95.- a year. jobup.ch stays free for candidates from beginning to end. If a list of vacancies is all you want, there is nothing here for you to buy.

Who each one is right for

Stay with jobup.ch if you are searching in Geneva, Lausanne or Vaud and breadth matters most, if you want to read employer reviews before applying, if you want recruiters to find you through the CV database or «Spotted», or if you want a salary estimate backed by many reports from your canton. And if you are applying there anyway, JobFit is a free indication of whether the effort is worth it.

Add SwissJobs.app, or use it instead, if you want vacancies advertised directly by the employer — 65.6 per cent of our Romandie listings — if you want to search in German or Italian, if you are looking in Jura or Neuchâtel where every extra source counts, or if you want a dossier written for each advert rather than one standard document sent everywhere. The most you can get out of this is by querying both: the overlap between them is 2.0 per cent.

And one boundary that applies to both sides: if you are drawing unemployment benefit, your job-search efforts have to be recorded the way your own RAV and arbeit.swiss require. Neither jobup.ch nor we are the authoritative place for that — both are ways of finding work, not proof that you looked.