SwissJobs.app or jobs.ch — which job search delivers more?

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.

   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.

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The same search on both sites, 4 September 2026

Both searches run on 4 September 2026 with no region, workload or industry filter. The two engines do not work the same way: jobs.ch searches semantically and pulls in related roles, our keyword search matches the advert title.

Feature comparison

"Not applicable" means the site does not offer that kind of tool at all — a different purpose, not a shortcoming. Checked 4 September 2026.

What it costs a job seeker

How "more" was measured

Fourteen search terms — ten German, four French — were run on both sites on 4 September 2026: Pflegefachfrau, Elektriker, Sachbearbeiter, Software Engineer, Verkäufer, Logistiker, Treuhänder, Projektleiter, Polymechaniker, Koch, infirmier, comptable, développeur, vendeur. No region, workload or industry filters, so this is what someone sees who simply types an occupation.

For jobs.ch the result count is the one the site prints above its own list and in the page title, and the freshness share comes from its own "published since" filter at the seven-day and 24-hour settings. On our side the keyword search counts open adverts whose title contains the term as a whole word, and the age comes from each advert’s publication date.

The caveat belongs in the result rather than in a footnote, because it explains part of the gap: the two engines do not work alike. jobs.ch searches semantically and adds adjacent roles; ours matches the advert title. Some of the ten-to-one is that difference, and that part counts in favour of jobs.ch — if you search "Verkäufer" and also want "Detailhandelsfachmann", they will show it and we will not.

The gap is smallest exactly where an international candidate searches

Pooled, jobs.ch returned about ten results for each of ours. Per occupation the spread is wide, and it is not random. Office and project roles came closest: retail sales 3.7 to 1, project manager 3.8 to 1, administrator 4.3 to 1, Software Engineer 5.5 to 1. Those are the roles Swiss employers most reliably publish on their own careers pages, which is where our index is strongest.

Trades went the other way: precision mechanic 22.1 to 1, electrician 26.2 to 1. Skilled manual work in Switzerland runs heavily through paid listings and staffing agencies, a channel that largely bypasses our index. If you are looking for a job on a site or in a workshop, you will see measurably less with us.

French-language searches were the widest of all: nurse 23.1 to 1, accountant 34.9 to 1, sales 50.1 to 1, developer 51.3 to 1. For a job search in French-speaking Switzerland the honest recommendation is jobs.ch, and jobup.ch beside it — the same company runs jobup as its Romandie brand.

Freshness: jobs.ch is ahead, by much less than its size suggests

Across the fourteen searches, 31.6 per cent of the jobs.ch results had appeared within seven days, against 26.4 per cent of ours; within 24 hours, 10.5 against 5.1 per cent. The lead is real, and it is a fraction of the size lead — ten times the results, five percentage points of freshness.

On four of the fourteen searches our list was the fresher one. That is not a better system at work, it is arithmetic: a smaller index that is refreshed continuously ages more slowly than a large one carrying a long tail of standing adverts.

On the jobs.ch first pages the median advert was about nine days old and 11.4 per cent were more than thirty days old. For 7.7 per cent of them the displayed publication date was later than the first publication date — the same vacancy, re-dated. That is normal practice for paid listings rather than a complaint, but it does mean "posted three days ago" is not always "open for three days".

The two lists barely overlap — measured in both directions

Size is the less interesting question. The useful one is whether the second site shows you anything new. Across the fourteen first result pages, jobs.ch listed adverts from a little over two hundred distinct employers. 15.3 per cent of those employers also appear in our index, and 7.1 per cent of the exact employer-and-title pairs. More than nine in ten of the adverts jobs.ch puts in front of you first are not in our index at all.

Run the other way: twenty-five adverts posted in the last thirty days were taken from our index and their exact titles searched on jobs.ch. Nine appeared there with the same employer and the same title on the first page of results, fifteen did not, and one search returned nothing at all. The method only looks at the first result page, so it is a floor on the overlap rather than proof about the whole of jobs.ch.

Together those two numbers answer the original question better than any count of results does. If what you want is more vacancies, the answer is not one site or the other — it is both, and neither search costs anything.

What jobs.ch does better

Beyond size: employer review profiles on every company, a salary calculator broken down by occupation and canton and explicitly built on figures supplied by registered members, the Job Coach with its blog, academy, webinars and checklists, a mobile app, and the "Spotted" talent pool through which employers approach candidates directly.

The most practical advantage is quick apply. About thirty per cent of the adverts on the first result pages we examined carried the simplified-application marker, which sends the application from the portal itself. If you are applying at volume, that saves a step every time. With us the application always goes to the employer — more thorough, not faster.

None of it costs a job seeker anything: jobs.ch is paid for on the employer side. Our search is free as well, but our documents stop being free once the trial and the free tier are used up. Anyone who only wants to read adverts and never to write one needs no subscription from us, and should not take one.

If you are applying from outside Switzerland

Both sites are usable from abroad: neither requires a Swiss address or an AHV number to search, and both need only an email address for alerts. jobs.ch has an English interface, which matters — many Swiss boards do not.

What changes when you actually apply is the dossier. Swiss employers expect Arbeitszeugnisse, the written references a previous employer issues; a photo is conventional rather than discouraged; anyone without a Swiss or EU/EFTA passport states a permit line; language skills are given as CEFR levels, because "fluent German" tells a Swiss recruiter nothing while B2 does; the workload is a Pensum in per cent, and 80 per cent is a normal, respectable request rather than a signal of low commitment.

That is the part no job board solves and where a generic international CV builder actively works against you, because it is built around a one-page US resume. It is also why the second site in this comparison is a CV tool with a job index attached rather than another board.

Which one to use

Use jobs.ch when choice matters most, when you are searching in a trade or a technical craft, when you are searching in French, when you want employer reviews or a salary estimate for your exact job title, or when quick apply saves you real time. On each of those points they are better, and none of them is a detail.

Use SwissJobs.app alongside it when you are searching in office, project or IT roles — where the two lists are closest in size and still made of different vacancies — and when your bottleneck is not finding the job but writing the application: one dossier per advert instead of one standard document, plus the check, the letter, the interview preparation and the RAV form in the same place.

If you are registered as unemployed, one rule overrides all of this: your job-search efforts have to be submitted the way your own RAV requires, through Job-Room or the cantonal form. Our form is a filling aid, never a substitute for that submission.