A CV tool with the RAV proof-of-applications form — does that exist?

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 the form actually is, if you have never seen one

Anyone registered with a Regional Employment Centre — the RAV in German-speaking Switzerland, the ORP in the French-speaking part, the URC in Ticino — has to prove every month, in writing, that they looked for work. The document for that is called «Nachweis der persönlichen Arbeitsbemühungen». It is a fillable PDF of two A4 pages with fourteen rows, one per application, and it goes to the employment centre by the fifth day of the following month.

Count the interactive fields inside the file and there are 201 of them: 61 text fields and 140 tick boxes, spread over nineteen distinct field names that repeat down the rows. Per application it wants the date, the company with its address, the job title, whether the RAV assigned you the job, full time or part time as a percentage, how you applied — by letter, in person or by phone — and the outcome, which is either still open, an interview, a hiring or a rejection with its reason. That is a Swiss application as the unemployment insurance system sees it, and it is a great deal more structured than a spreadsheet with three columns.

The version question matters more than you would expect, because the three language editions are not one file with swapped text. All three descend from a single Word document from February 2012, and its internal title still sits inside all three files, still carrying the German suffix even in the French and Italian editions. German and Italian carry 6 August 2019 as their last revision; French was reissued on 3 September 2024 and is the only one touched this decade.

There is no English edition, and arbeit.swiss says so unusually plainly: its English forms page heads the list by stating that the forms for jobseekers are in German, and repeats the note behind every single entry. So if English is your only working language, you will be filling in a German administrative form. No tool changes that, because none of them is allowed to invent a language version the Confederation does not publish.

Why the CV half and the proof half are almost never in one program

The economics pull them apart. A CV builder sells in every country where people apply for jobs; the template needs translating, not reinventing. A proof-of-efforts form exists only here, has no foreign counterpart, and its entire addressable market is the people registered with an employment centre in a country of not quite nine million. For an international vendor that is not a business line, it is a curiosity.

So the landscape looks the way it looks: plenty of good CV tools that have never heard of the RAV, a few good RAV helpers that write no CV, and a very short list in the middle. If you search in that order — the form first, the CV second — you find what exists faster than the other way round.

It also explains a trap worth naming for anyone arriving from outside. Tools built around a US résumé will happily produce a document and a tracking board, and none of that satisfies the Swiss obligation. A Swiss application dossier expects Arbeitszeugnisse — the written employer references you collect at the end of every job — a residence-permit line if you are not Swiss, language levels stated as A1 to C2 rather than as «fluent», a workload given as a percentage, and roughly two pages. The proof form asks for that same percentage in its own column. The two halves speak the same local dialect, which is precisely why an international tool cannot cover either one properly.

SwissJobs.app — the original file, filled from the tracker

What it does: the proof is assembled from the application tracker. Anything you mark as applied becomes a row automatically; phone calls and in-person visits you add once, with date, company and contact, and they stay stored for that month. From the fifteenth effort onwards a second sheet appears by itself. A photo of your signature is cut out on upload — a light background becomes transparent — and lands in the right place in the PDF; your name, your AHV number and your signature go into the generated file and nowhere else.

What you can verify yourself: we do not rebuild the form, we hand over the original. On 4 September 2026 we downloaded all three language editions from arbeit.swiss and compared them with the files our own site serves under the /forms/ path. The checksums match exactly in all three languages — byte for byte the same document. Checking that needs no account, because both addresses are public.

What it costs: tracking applications is free, and the list accepts entries even without an account. The first proof after you register is deliberately free too: if you came for the form, you should be able to hold the finished thing once before anything is asked of you. From the second export the usual ladder applies — seven days free, then CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year, cancellable at any time. Alongside that, a free account allows five documents a day and ten per rolling week.

Where it stops, on the same page as the rest: we submit nothing. And our explanatory page about the proof exists only in German today. The form comes out in all three official languages and the interface speaks four, but the page that tells you how any of it works is German, and there cvswiss.ch is ahead of us. If you want no account at all, Awaso serves you better than we do.

cvswiss.ch and Awaso — the two others that do both halves

cvswiss.ch has a dedicated page for exactly this question, badged as new, and describes the same route: record applications in the tracker — thirty seconds each, free, in their words — then one click at month end produces the filled official form as a PDF in German, French or Italian; you check it, sign it, hand it in. They state explicitly that they fill the Confederation’s own form and that the fields stay editable, and they carry their own notice that they are not affiliated with SECO or the RAV. That notice is correct, and it applies to us unchanged.

The hard difference is the price. Their tracking is free as well, but the export of the form belongs to their CHF 15 monthly plan; there is no free first proof. In exchange that plan also carries unlimited CVs and letters. And if you are writing exactly one application, their one-off CV at CHF 5 is cheaper than any subscription, ours included — though explicitly with no edits after download. One inconsistency, stated without judgement: their pricing answer mentions a thirty-day pass, while their pricing page on 4 September 2026 lists only the one-off and the monthly plan.

Where they beat us outright: their page about the proof exists in three real language versions at three separate addresses, each using the local name of the employment centre and the local abbreviation of the ordinance. Ours exists in German. For someone who reads French or Italian and wants to understand the thing before signing up anywhere, that is not a small difference.

Awaso is the third that has both halves and the only one that charges for neither: a CV generator with Swiss fields and one free template, premium templates from CHF 10, plus an efforts tracker that produces a PDF at month end. No account, no installation, and by its own statement the data stays in your browser. The difference that matters here: its proof is its own cleanly typeset sheet rather than the federal file, and it has fewer fields than the form does. It also exists only in German. For a German-reading jobseeker who wants no account, it is still the best answer on this page.

Easy Job Room and the eService — the neighbouring cases

Easy Job Room attacks the same chore from the other end. It writes no CV and produces no sheet; it types. A browser extension with iOS and Android apps imports adverts from LinkedIn, Jobup, jobs.ch and Indeed and then fills the eService’s input mask automatically. Six applications are free, after which it costs CHF 7 a month, CHF 15 for three months or CHF 25 for six. If your dossier is written elsewhere and the retyping in Job-Room is your only real complaint, this is precisely the right purchase. Worth noting: on the same day, its own answers list says all features are currently free and a premium version is in preparation, while the price table above it says otherwise.

And then the eService inside Job-Room itself, which occupies a special place on this list. It is free, it is official, its interface exists in four languages including English — and it is the only one here that actually submits. Everything else, ours included, is a collecting point in front of it. If the advert is on Job-Room, the eService copies the details straight into the proof and that row never needs transferring at all. Anyone with access should record there. The tools above earn their place for the applications that happen everywhere else, and that is the larger share.

One practical note for people who have just arrived or are still working out their notice period: the eService is only open to you once the employment centre has registered you. The efforts you make before that — during a notice period, during waiting weeks, while relocating — still count and still have to be documented, and that is exactly the stretch where a private tool, or a plain sheet of paper, is the only place to put them.

How much of a form row a job advert actually gives you

A tool that fills the proof from your applications can only be as good as what an application contains in the first place. That is measurable against our own stock of open Swiss adverts, apprenticeships and internships excluded, as of 4 September 2026. Four of the things a form row demands are supplied by practically every advert: the date anyway, the job title in every case, the company in 99.9 per cent and a place in 99.8 per cent.

Then it stops. A number for the workload appears in 23.7 per cent — not quite one advert in four writes the percentage into its title, and the rest leave the full-time-or-part-time box to you. And the address that the field literally asks for is essentially never there: in 84.4 per cent of cases the location is a bare place name, and a street with a house number turns up in 0.3 per cent. A contact person and a telephone number our advert record does not hold at all.

The practical consequence is one no vendor puts on a landing page: the automatic part of an automatically filled proof is about half of it. Date, company, place and job title appear by themselves; address, contact person, telephone number, workload and outcome you add. Which means the question worth asking about these tools is not how much they fill in for you, but how quickly you can correct a row by hand once they have.

The language gap that belongs to none of the tools

There is an asymmetry between the two halves that shows up the moment you measure it. The CV follows the language of the advert; the form exists in three languages and no others. Of the open adverts in our stock whose language is unambiguously identified — just under three quarters of them — 31.2 per cent are written in a language for which no edition of the form exists. Almost all of that is English, at 29.7 per cent.

That is not a fringe, it is close to a third of the visible market, and it does not only concern newcomers: 28.6 per cent of those same adverts still require a national language. The typical result is a month in which the dossier is written in English and the proof covering it is handed in in German, with the job titles translated by hand in the column.

For choosing a tool this cuts two ways. First, an English proof sheet is not a feature anyone could ship — promising one means promising a document the Confederation does not issue. Second, the interface language is the only thing that can actually help: being able to operate the tool in English while the sheet it produces is German, French or Italian is the whole of the available comfort. With us and with Easy Job Room that works. With Awaso it does not.

Who should take which

Registered with an employment centre and holding eService access: record there, continuously, on the day you apply. It is the only route where nothing has to be transferred, and it is free.

Writing a separate dossier for every advert and unwilling to type the same details twice: SwissJobs.app. The row is created where you apply, the sheet at the end is the federal file, and the first proof costs nothing once you have registered.

Wanting to read how the whole thing works in French or Italian before signing up anywhere, or needing one CV for one application at CHF 5: cvswiss.ch. Wanting neither an account nor a subscription, and reading German: Awaso, with the caveat that its sheet is not the official file. Writing your dossier elsewhere already and irritated only by the retyping in Job-Room: Easy Job Room.

And the sentence that outranks all the others: no tool on this page submits your proof. A calendar month’s efforts must reach the competent office by the fifth day of the following month, or the first working day after it; let the deadline pass without an excusable reason and those efforts are no longer taken into account. A program that reminds you in time is worth a great deal. One that leaves you feeling the matter is settled is dangerous.