jobs.ch alternatives compared — which are worth it?

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.

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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.

SwissJobs.app

What it is: an index of open Swiss adverts in four languages with a CV tool built into the same product. You find an advert and the CV is tailored to that advert — you do not paste the posting in, because it is already here. Over twenty thousand live adverts from more than three thousand two hundred employers, refreshed daily.

What it costs: searching, filtering and reading adverts is free and needs no account. The application tools — CV, a match against one specific advert, motivation letter — are free for seven days, then CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year.

Who it suits: anyone applying to Swiss adverts who wants a dossier shaped for each one rather than a single standard CV, and anyone who wants to see listings that are not on jobs.ch — 5,7 per cent of ours lead to a JobCloud site, ninety-four in a hundred do not. It is also the option that assumes least: the CV format, the permit line and CEFR levels are built in rather than something you have to know to add.

The limitation: we are much smaller than jobs.ch and will stay that way. If raw German-language volume is what you need, they have it. And the tools require an account once you move past searching, which Job-Room and the regional boards do not.

Job-Room (arbeit.swiss)

What it is: the federal public employment service's job portal, which arbeit.swiss itself calls the largest job platform in Switzerland. On 26 August 2026 its homepage showed just under seventy-six thousand vacancies — more than any private Swiss board that day.

What it costs: nothing, in four languages, with no advertising and no premium tier. Anyone can search it without an account, including from outside Switzerland.

Who it suits: everyone who is already in Switzerland, and especially anyone in an occupation covered by the reporting obligation. Those vacancies appear first in the protected area, and the official FAQ states that such a post may be advertised elsewhere only five working days after publication there. No private platform can reproduce that, because it is a legal sequence rather than a feature.

The limitation, and it is the one that matters if you are relocating: the head start is only for registered users, and registering needs an AGOV login, an AHV number and a personal number your RAV assigns you — none of which exist before you are living in Switzerland and signed on. A second point applies to everyone drawing unemployment benefit: documents with a deadline, above all the record of personal job-search efforts, must go through the Job-Room eServices or a channel your RAV or unemployment fund designates. Private services, ours included, help with the search and never replace that route.

Indeed Switzerland

What it is: an aggregator that pulls adverts from employer sites, applicant systems and other boards. Its Swiss search page advertised roughly one hundred and thirty-five thousand open positions on 26 August 2026, about three times what jobs.ch showed on its own homepage.

What it costs: nothing for jobseekers.

Who it suits: searching by place rather than by job title, which is exactly what people relocating tend to do — “everything within thirty kilometres of Zug” works far better here than on a Swiss board organised by occupational group. It is also the best single source for adverts that only ever appeared on a company's own careers page.

The limitation: volume is not choice. Aggregation brings duplicates, the same role listed through three agencies, and posts that were filled weeks ago; the default sort is relevance rather than date. And because the structure is international, none of the Swiss fields — Pensum, CEFR levels, permit — are filterable, so you end up reading adverts to find out things a Swiss board would have let you filter on.

LinkedIn

What it is: a professional network with a job search attached. Its Swiss results page reported over forty-eight thousand jobs on 26 August 2026.

What it costs: nothing that matters. Premium is a sales product, not a search tool.

Who it suits: English-language and international roles, which is a real segment here rather than a fringe — pharma around Basel, finance in Zurich and Geneva, the international organisations, and most venture-funded companies. If you are applying from another country, this is where a recruiter can see you before you have a Swiss address.

The limitation: as a list it is currently the weakest option here. On 26 August 2026 the Swiss results carried a banner saying the search was now AI-powered and that the platform was “working to bring back all filters” — meaning they were missing. The top results were “Spontaneous Application” placeholders, several of them three to six months old. Use LinkedIn for the network and check the vacancy itself somewhere else.

Glassdoor

What it is: a job list combined with employee reviews and self-reported salary ranges. Its Swiss results header showed a figure almost identical to Indeed's on 26 August 2026, and the listings carry the same look and the same age markers.

What it costs: nothing, but reading the reviews needs an account — the site says so on the listing page itself.

Who it suits: the research step rather than the search step. If you have an interview at a Swiss company you have never heard of, this is where you find out how people describe working there, and roughly what the role pays. For someone arriving from outside, that context is harder to get than the vacancy itself.

The limitation: as a job board it adds little you will not have seen elsewhere, many listings are marked as more than thirty days old, and Swiss salary entries are thin outside the large employers in Zurich, Basel and Geneva. Treat the salary figures as a rough band and check them against what adverts actually state.

rocken.jobs

What it is: a Swiss placement business with a search box in front of it rather than a board. Its homepage claims over eleven thousand jobs at more than five thousand six hundred verified partner companies, and is candid about the model — the site states outright that it is not a platform for everyone. You apply for a candidate profile, are screened, and are then matched to employers.

What it costs: nothing for candidates; employers pay.

Who it suits: specialists in IT, engineering, life sciences, finance and healthcare, and anyone who would rather be found than search. The site runs in English as well as German, which matters if you are not yet confident reading Swiss German adverts.

The limitation: you do not apply to the employer directly, you release a profile and wait to be matched — convenient, and less control. Also worth knowing: rocken.jobs is the single most common application destination in our own index at 9,8 per cent, so its adverts reach you through other channels anyway. As an additional source it adds less than its headline number suggests.

ostjob.ch and the Swiss regional boards

What it is: a regional board for eastern Switzerland, part of a network of near-identical sites — myjob.ch, zentraljob.ch, jobbasel.ch, jobbern.ch, jobmittelland.ch, jobzüri.ch and ajourjob.ch for Biel and the Bernese Jura. ostjob.ch listed over six thousand three hundred jobs on 26 August 2026, while jobs.ch showed a little over five thousand two hundred for the same eastern region. In its own patch, the regional site beats the national leader.

What it costs: nothing, and the email alert works without an account.

Who it suits: anyone whose search is bounded by a commute rather than by a country. Regional employers list here first because a national posting for a role in Wil is expensive and pointless.

The limitation: one region at a time, almost entirely German, and effectively invisible if you are searching from abroad — you would have to know the site exists, which is the whole reason it is in this list. For French-speaking Switzerland the network barely reaches; for Ticino it does not reach at all.

In short: which alternative is worth it for whom

If you are in Switzerland and registered with an RAV, Job-Room first — the five-working-day head start and the official submission route are both there, and neither can be bought elsewhere. If you want adverts jobs.ch does not carry and a CV shaped to each specific posting, use SwissJobs.app. If you are searching by location, or relocating and unsure what your job is called in German, use Indeed and sort by date. If your target roles are English-language or international, use LinkedIn for the network and verify the vacancy elsewhere. Use Glassdoor to research the employer, not to find the job. If your search is bounded by a commute inside German-speaking Switzerland, the regional board for your area will beat all of them locally. And if what you actually want is the longest German-language list in the country, stay on jobs.ch — nothing here replaces it on volume.