What are the best job boards for French-speaking Switzerland?

The Swiss job portals at a glance

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The tools compared directly

As of 4 September 2026. Every figure for another tool comes from that tool's own site; "n/s" means it was not readable there — not that the feature is missing. Our row comes from the code and from walking the live flow.

What is different about searching in Romandie

Romandie is not one market and it is not only French. Among the adverts we list for the six cantons, 40.0% are written in French, 26.6% in English and 3.2% in German, and the mix moves canton by canton: Fribourg is 52.1% French, Vaud 46.9% French against 19.3% English, and Geneva only 29.9% French against 44.5% English. Geneva's international organisations, banks and research institutions advertise in English, so an English-speaking candidate is not at the edge of that market but in the middle of it.

The second difference is where the adverts live. In our listings 65.9% of Romandie adverts link to the employer's own site, 31.6% into an applicant system and 2.5% to a job board, against 52.8% employer sites nationally — and 50.2% of the Romandie employers we list have a single open advert. No board holds this market, which is why two sources beat one and six sources beat nothing.

The third difference is what a Swiss application expects, and it catches people relocating. Adverts state a Pensum — the workload as a percentage, 80% or 100% — rather than hours. Pay is quoted in CHF and often over thirteen months. A CV here is usually two pages, commonly carries a photo, states language levels as CEFR grades (B2, C1) rather than "fluent", and lists Arbeitszeugnisse, the written employer references Swiss employers expect. If you are not Swiss or EU-settled, the permit line (B, C, or G for cross-border commuters) belongs in the CV, because it answers the first question a Geneva recruiter has.

SwissJobs.app

Our own tool: a search across adverts from the whole country, 16.4% of them in the six French-speaking cantons, alongside tools for the application itself. Searching is free and needs no account, and the interface and search run in English, French, German and Italian — which matters where more than one advert in four is written in English. The AI tools — tailoring a CV to one specific advert, a CV check, an application tracker — cost CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year after seven free days.

Best for: people applying regularly in Romandie who want to run the same search term in several languages, and who rebuild the CV for each advert. We put ourselves first on composition rather than size: 65.9% of our Romandie adverts point at an employer's careers page, which is where this market actually publishes.

Limit: our Romandie adverts have a median age of 33 days against 24 nationally, and we have no employer reviews, no salary comparison and no mobile app. If that is what you want, jobup.ch does it better.

jobup.ch

The Romandie standard, run by JobCloud, with an interface in French and English — the /de/ path redirected to the French site on 26 August 2026, so there is no German version. Free for candidates, with employer profiles and reviews, a salary comparison tool and "Spotted by jobup.ch", where employers approach a profile. On 26 August 2026 its cantonal search showed 683 results for Fribourg, 507 for Valais, 438 for Neuchâtel and 106 for Jura, with Vaud and Geneva each above a thousand.

Best for: anyone who wants a single address and is looking around Lake Geneva — Vaud and Geneva together hold about two thirds of jobup's Romandie adverts. Also the best place to read what other people say about an employer before applying.

Limit: it is not a purely Romandie board. The same day it showed about 1.4 times as many adverts for Zurich as for all six French-speaking cantons together, and its stock is the same one behind jobs.ch and JobScout24 — so searching jobup.ch and then jobs.ch largely covers the same ground twice.

jobs.ch

The national heavyweight from the same owner, free for candidates, with salary data, employer reviews and an app. Its own home page lists roughly eight and a half times as many adverts for German-speaking Switzerland as for Suisse romande.

Best for: national groups and German-Swiss employers with a Romandie site — that part of the market is advertised here first, sometimes only in German.

Limit: that same ratio is why jobs.ch is a detour for a purely Romandie search, and the shared stock means the second visit adds little.

LinkedIn

Not a job board in the strict sense, but in Geneva the single richest channel for international employers: banks, watchmaking, international organisations, research. Free, with an account. For Geneva it reports more than five thousand jobs without giving an exact figure, and asks you to sign in to see beyond the first results.

Best for: English-language and senior roles, and for anything that turns on a referral rather than an application — in Geneva, where 44.5% of adverts are written in English, that is a large share of the market.

Limit: the radius around Geneva reaches across the border into France, so French vacancies appear in the same list with nothing said about permits. Swiss quantities are missing too: you cannot filter by Pensum, and the 13th month salary never appears.

Indeed

The broadest aggregator, free, with an interface in English, French, German and Italian. On 26 August 2026 its own results page reported around two thousand openings for Geneva — a rounded figure rather than a count.

Best for: a first sweep, and for employers who advertise on no Swiss board at all but whose careers page Indeed reads.

Limit: aggregation brings duplicates and stale entries, and the click often lands on an intermediate page rather than at the employer.

Job-Room (arbeit.swiss)

The official federal and cantonal portal, free, in all national languages. It is the only address on this list that counts legally: for occupations where national unemployment reaches at least 5%, employers must notify the vacancy here, and arbeit.swiss states the post may only be published elsewhere five working days later. During those days only jobseekers registered with an ORP see it.

Best for: anyone registered with an ORP. That five-day head start exists nowhere else. And if you are claiming unemployment benefit, job-search efforts only count when they are submitted to the ORP — on Job-Room or the cantonal form, by the fifth day of the following month (Art. 26 para. 2 AVIV/OACI). A list kept on our site or any other board does not replace that; we are a convenience layer on top, never a substitute.

Limit: registration requires residence in Switzerland, so the protected part is closed to you while you are still abroad, and the interface is a government application rather than a product.

Cantonal government portals (ge.ch, vd.ch, jobs.fr.ch)

The Romandie cantons are among the largest employers in their region and publish almost everything on their own portal. The canton of Fribourg presents itself on jobs.fr.ch as the employer of nineteen thousand staff and runs a bilingual portal; Geneva and Vaud each run their own. Free, readable without an account.

Best for: administration, hospitals, schools, police and universities — a large share of the region's stable jobs. In our listings the Fribourg portal alone is the destination of 4.5% of all Romandie adverts, and the canton as an employer accounts for 3.2% of them.

Limit: one portal per canton, no shared search, no alerts across cantonal borders. Covering all six means six bookmarks. Many public-sector roles also require French at a working level even where the advert is written in English.

Who should use which

Registered with an ORP: Job-Room first, always, and record the job-search efforts there or on the cantonal form. Job hunting in Geneva in English: LinkedIn and SwissJobs.app, because that is where the English-language adverts a French search never surfaces actually sit. Searching Vaud or Valais with French as a working language: jobup.ch as the main address, SwissJobs.app alongside it for the employer sites.

Public sector: go straight to the cantonal portal. Still living abroad: everything except Job-Room's protected area is open to you, so build the search now and register with an ORP only once you are resident. One rule for everyone: two sources, not six — a big board for breadth, and one address that points at employer career pages.