SwissJobs.app or JobScout24 — which fits when?

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.

   SwissJobs.app →

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   2. JobScout24

   A third brand from the same company. Searching all three to widen your search means searching one provider three times.

   JobScout24 →

Feature comparison

Everything in the JobScout24 column was read on their own pages on 4 September 2026; ours comes from the code and from requests to the live site the same day.

Prices side by side

The bigger list is also the fresher one — and that has to come first

It would be convenient to answer the size gap with freshness. We measured it, and it does not hold. Every result on a JobScout24 city page carries an age badge — “New”, “3 T” for three days, “2 W” for two weeks, “1+M” for anything older than a month. Across more than five thousand results on 223 of those pages, 45 per cent were three days old or less, 68 per cent seven days or less, and the median result was four days old.

In our own index the same day, one open advert in five is under a week old, just under half are under a month, and the median sits at just over thirty days. The two measurements are not perfectly equivalent: their city pages show the first page of results in their default “best match” order, and fresh adverts tend to rank higher there, so 68 per cent is closer to an upper bound than an average. The gap survives being read that way.

So if what you want is simply to see what was posted this week, JobScout24 is the better address and it costs you nothing. This is the point at which a comparison page written to sell would change the subject.

Two different lists: matching the employers

JobScout24 publishes an alphabetical company directory, A to Z, holding just over seven thousand profiles. We fetched all of it and matched it against every employer name currently advertising with us — lower-cased, accents removed, legal forms such as AG, SA, GmbH and Sàrl stripped, then compared word by word.

The result: roughly two thirds of the employers advertising with us have no profile in their directory. Checked by hand and genuinely absent are Roche, Michael Page, On, Physioswiss, the Medbase group, Solvias, Destinus, AutoZone, ATP architects engineers and Union Bancaire Privée.

The method has a known weakness and we measured it rather than hiding it. Of forty randomly drawn non-matches, one was arguable; among the sixty employers with the most adverts, about a dozen turned out to be present under a different spelling — “Julius Baer” against “Bank Julius Bär & Co. AG”, “Swiss Armed Forces” against “Schweizer Armee”, “CSD ENGINEERS” against “CSD Ingenieure”. That is why this page says “roughly two thirds” rather than the 72 per cent the raw match reports.

The gap in the other direction is the bigger one: the great majority of their seven thousand-odd profiles have no counterpart in our index. Part of that is real breadth and part is bookkeeping — a directory entry does not prove the company has a vacancy open today.

Reading the English version for what it is

JobScout24 exists in German, French and English. The English one is noticeably lighter. Its navigation offers three items — Jobs, Apprenticeships and For employers — against five in German. The careers guide, which holds the CV samples, the cover-letter template and the interview checklist, has no English version at all: its English address returns an error while the German and French ones load, and the template pages themselves switch between those two languages and nothing else. The salary page does exist at an English address, but nothing in the English menu points to it.

Practically, that means an English-speaking reader gets the search and not the advice. The search is the larger half of the value, so this is not fatal; but if you came looking for guidance on how a Swiss application is put together, it is not there in your language.

There is no Italian version at all. Requesting the Italian address on 4 September 2026 produced an error page, and that error page was itself in German — while the region filter still offers “Ticino (TI)”. If you are job-hunting in Ticino and do not read German or French comfortably, that is a real obstacle.

What neither site does, and one of them should

The mistake people relocating to Switzerland make is almost never the search. It is the dossier. A Swiss application expects Arbeitszeugnisse — the written employer reference you receive at the end of every job, and which candidates from most countries have simply never collected. A photo is conventional rather than discouraged. Language ability is stated as a CEFR level, B2 or C1, not as “fluent” or “native-ish”. Workload is a Pensum written in per cent, so “80–100 %” in a job title is a range of contracted hours and not a performance target. And if you do not hold a Swiss passport, the permit — B, C, G or EU/EFTA — belongs on the CV in one line, early.

Two pages is the norm, not one. An American-style one-page resume reads as incomplete here, and the CV tools that most English-language advice recommends are calibrated to produce exactly that.

A job board does not touch any of this, and JobScout24 is not doing anything wrong by leaving it alone — it is not their job. It is ours: those conventions are built into the documents we generate, and the check grades a CV against them alongside the advert itself.

Who is paying for the list you are reading

Publishing a vacancy on JobScout24 is free; visibility is the paid product. Their employer site says so plainly — publish at no cost, “and increase visibility as needed with our paid options” — and prices those advertising products from CHF 488. It also claims one million job searches a month, and forty-nine thousand Swiss companies across the JobCloud portals.

The consequence is visible in the list itself: 11.9 per cent of the results on the city pages we analysed carried the “Top Listing” marker, and the default “best match” sort puts them first. That is the ordinary economics of a job board that is free to use, not a criticism. It does mean the top of a results page and the best matches for you are not automatically the same thing.

We are paid from the other side: not by employers for visibility, but by applicants for documents, and only past the free tier. That has its own drawback and it is in the pricing table — apply heavily enough and you will meet five documents a day and ten per rolling week.

Which site fits when

Use JobScout24 if you are searching broadly, want to see what appeared this week, need an apprenticeship — 941 open there on a board built for it — care about company reviews, or simply want a free Word template and a few sample CVs. None of that costs a job seeker anything, and for a large share of readers it is the whole answer.

Use SwissJobs.app when you have found a specific vacancy and need a dossier written for its text; when you want to search in Italian, or in all four national interfaces; when you have to record your applications anyway because the RAV requires proof of job-search efforts; or when you want an email alert without creating an account first.

And most likely: both. Two Swiss job sites overlap far less than you would guess. Search where there is more to find; write where the advert is already in the generator.