CV check: SwissJobs.app or Teal's resume analysis?

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 the two reports actually contain

Teal describes its own check precisely enough to quote. The page promises a "personalized ATS resume score in under 60 seconds", "Powered by 15 targeted checks", and names the categories it grades: resume structure, information completeness, measurable results, language and keyword usage, quality signals, and five more. It also publishes the threshold it wants you to aim at — "A good resume score is 80% or higher" — and, in the job-matching tool, a match score from 0 to 100 per cent against a job description you paste in.

Our report is built differently, and for this page we generated one rather than describing it. It arrives in three parts. Seven content dimensions, each with its own 0-to-100 score and a one- or two-sentence reason: keyword and ATS match, hard skills, soft skills, motivation, personality and environment fit, differentiator, measurable achievements. Then a fixed checklist of nine machine-readability items, each graded have, partial or missing — contact block, section headings, single-column layout, job-title match, date-format consistency, text layer, length, keyword coverage, photo. Then the Swiss block and three to five fixes ranked by severity.

The test CV we uploaded was thin on purpose: two roles, duties instead of results, languages without levels. It scored 30 out of 100, and the reasons were specific — no profile section, no quantified outcomes, no stated differentiator. The readability checklist, by contrast, came back almost entirely green; only the length failed. That split is the argument for keeping the two lists apart. A document can be perfectly legible to a machine and still say nothing to a person, and one number cannot hold both facts at once.

Where a percentage stops being an answer

A match score assumes the requirements in an advert can be traded off against each other: more of this compensates for less of that. For a good part of any posting, that is true. For another part it is not, and in Switzerland the size of that part can be measured.

On 4 September 2026 we drew 340 open adverts at random from our own index, about 85 in each advert language, apprenticeships and internships excluded, and opened the real posting text. The 311 texts of at least 400 characters were analysed for five conditions you either meet or do not: a named Swiss qualification, a driving licence, willingness to work shifts or on-call, a work permit, and a required place of residence.

Just under a third — 30.9 per cent — name at least one of the five, and 6.1 per cent name two or more. Individually, the named qualification leads at 17 per cent: EFZ (the federal vocational certificate), Fachausweis, HF or FH. The driving licence follows at 10 per cent, shift or on-call readiness at 6.1 per cent, the work permit at 4.5 per cent. Not one advert in this sample demanded a particular place of residence.

There is a second result here that cuts in Teal's favour, and English-speaking readers should have it. English-language Swiss adverts are the least gated of the four: 16.2 per cent state one of these conditions, against 20 per cent of Italian, 37.2 per cent of German and 49.4 per cent of French-language postings. If your Swiss search is entirely in English — which for many people arriving in Zurich, Basel or Zug it is — you are applying into the part of the market where wording really is most of the game, and an international keyword tool loses least.

What does not change with the advert language is the employer. A Swiss company reading an English-language CV still expects the dossier conventions of this country, and those are graded by nobody's keyword scanner.

Three lines only a Swiss check grades

Our report carries a separate block of exactly three items, fixed rather than left to the model: work permit and eligibility, language levels, photo. On the test CV it read "work permit: missing" — nothing indicated whether a B, C or L permit was held; "language levels: partial", because "German native, French good, English basic" is not a CEFR scale; and "photo: have", with a note that in Switzerland a photograph is conventional and welcome.

The photo is where an international check and a Swiss one genuinely part company, and the difference is documented rather than aesthetic. The federal employment service's own application guidance lists the photograph among the usual contents of a CV, alongside personal details, work history, education, language skills, interests and references. It also expects the document to run to no more than a few pages, in reverse-chronological order, with employer references and diplomas attached as part of the dossier. If your tool was built where a photo is treated as legal risk, it is advising you against the local convention without knowing it.

Neither Teal's checker page nor its builder page mentions a photograph, a permit line, or a CEFR level. That is not a flaw in their product; it is a description of a different document. The US-shaped resume their analysis is built around has no such fields. You do not notice the difference in the score — you notice it when a Swiss recruiter looks for the line that says whether you may work here and does not find it.

Trying either one without an account

On our side a full check runs anonymously. We did it on 4 September 2026: CV text posted with no session, no account and no card. The run was accepted, and about a minute later the entire report was readable — every score, the readability checklist, the Swiss block, the ranked fixes. A second attempt from the same browser was refused with the message that the free check had been used and a free account was needed. That is the design: one report per browser, then the email address.

On Teal's side the checker's call to action leads to a page titled "resume-sign-up" which says "Upload your resume to get your free Keyword Match Score and personalized insights", offering a file, a LinkedIn import or pasted text, with "Already a Teal user? Sign in" underneath. So the CV is asked for before the account. We did not upload one, so we do not claim to know exactly where the wall is; anyone who wants certainty should walk it themselves.

One number on our side that belongs in the open: a free account allows five generated documents per day, ten per rolling week, and that one budget also pays for cover letters and for AI editing instructions. The standalone CV check is deliberately not counted against that budget today — the reason is written into the code, namely that metering it would quietly change what the page promises. Decisions like that can be revisited, which is why this page carries a date.

What Teal does better

Feedback while you write. Teal's analysis sits as a tab inside its own editor, and by its own description the score updates in real time as you edit, with a "Show Me" control that jumps to the part of the document under discussion. If you like tightening a document until the number moves, that loop is better than ours. Our report is a snapshot you re-run.

The free tier. "Free Forever" at Teal means unlimited resume versions and unlimited job tracking; what is capped there is the keyword match, held to the "Top 5", and the analysis, held to "Basic". For someone job-hunting for months who intends to spend nothing, that is more than we give away.

And the examples. Teal publishes over two thousand role-specific sample resumes across data, design, product, finance and the rest. It is a serious library, and for the roles it covers it is useful. Those roles are simply another market's: nothing there is written for a Pflegefachfrau HF, an electrician with an EFZ, or a Sachbearbeiterin in a Treuhand office.

Which one to pick

Pick our check if you are applying to Swiss employers and want to know whether your dossier meets local expectations: the permit line, CEFR language levels, the photo, results rather than duties. Pick it too if any part of your search is in German, French or Italian — an English-only tool cannot read the document you are actually sending.

Pick Teal if your search is English-language and largely international, if you work in one of the roles its examples were written for, if you want a live score while you edit, or if you want a free application tracker attached to the same account.

And if you use both, split them by task rather than by price. Teal tells you whether your wording matches the posting. We tell you whether your dossier is complete for this country — and if you then want a version written for that specific advert, we generate it from the same posting text.