SwissJobs.app or jobup.ch — which one for a job search in French-speaking Switzerland?

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. 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.

   jobup.ch →

Feature comparison, as at 4 September 2026

Every jobup.ch value read on their own pages on 4 September 2026: home page, search results with the region and date filters, the JobCloud AI guide, the Académie and the employer-facing B2B page.

Prices side by side, as at 4 September 2026

Our figures read out of our own code rather than recalled. Cancel any time.

What «bigger» and «faster» mean in numbers

On 4 September 2026 we opened jobup.ch’s own «Suisse romande» region filter, then the same filter with its 24-hour, 7-day and 30-day date steps. The result: roughly four and a half thousand open adverts, of which 13,8 per cent were posted in the last 24 hours, 48,5 per cent in the last seven days and 90,4 per cent in the last thirty. Almost everything on that board is less than a month old.

Our own index for the same six cantons looks different on the same day: 14,3 per cent from the last seven days, 41,7 per cent from the last thirty. We count strictly — only adverts whose location resolves unambiguously to a French-speaking canton, apprenticeships excluded. A Geneva in New York State or a Freiburg in Germany drops out, and so do some real Romandie adverts along with them, so the figure understates rather than overstates.

The gap is about where the adverts come from. On a board, an advert is there because an employer put it there and leaves when they withdraw it. A large part of our index comes from employers’ own career pages, where the same posting often sits for months. Both are open jobs, but they age differently. If you look once a week, nearly half of jobup.ch is new to you every time — and that is a real advantage, not a rounding error.

English in Geneva is not a workaround

Advice written for people moving to Switzerland tends to assume that not speaking the local language is a handicap to be worked around. In Geneva, our count of open adverts on 4 September 2026 says otherwise: 63,6 per cent of the adverts that state a language requirement name English, against 64,4 per cent naming French. Measured on the language the advert itself is written in, 46,7 per cent of open Geneva adverts are in English and 52,3 per cent in French.

That is the international-organisation, banking and commodity-trading end of the Swiss market, and it is concentrated in one canton. It also explains why jobup.ch runs an English interface rather than a German one: the second language of its own market is English.

Do not carry that assumption west or north. In Vaud, English is named in 53,3 per cent of adverts stating a requirement; in Fribourg only 24,9 per cent. In Fribourg the second language is German, at 65,5 per cent — a bilingual canton behaving like one.

How many languages a Romandie advert asks for

Across the six cantons, 67,3 per cent of open adverts state a language requirement at all. Of those, 37,6 per cent name two languages or more and 9,3 per cent name three or more. The spread between cantons is what matters: 63,1 per cent of Fribourg adverts want two or more, against 18,9 per cent in Neuchâtel.

Valais is the other case worth knowing before you apply. German is named in 44,7 per cent of adverts there that state a requirement, and 23,0 per cent of open Valais adverts are written in German — the Upper Valais, around Brig, Visp and Naters, is German-speaking territory inside a canton most people file under French.

One caveat about where this number comes from: the language requirement is read automatically out of the advert text. It is an estimate of what the posting says, not the employer’s literal wording. That is good enough for the size of the effect and for comparing cantons; for your own application, the advert is what counts.

What jobup.ch does with AI, and where it stops

JobCloud publishes an open guide to what runs on artificial intelligence across jobup.ch, jobs.ch and jobscout24. It lists job recommendations based on your activity, a semantic search that takes plain language, an AI summary next to each advert, automatic translation of adverts into your chosen language, a JobFit score that rates an uploaded CV against a posting, a Culture Fit score available only in the mobile app, and CV parsing to pre-fill your profile.

It also lists a cover-letter generator, with the limits stated in the guide itself: registered candidates only, only inside the internal Easy Apply form, built from profile fields and advert details such as the job title and company name — and explicitly, «Le contenu du CV n’est pas analysé». The text is capped at around two and a half thousand characters, editable in the form afterwards, and not available on every application form.

What the list does not contain is a CV. There is no editor on jobup.ch that builds a document and exports it. CV help lives in the Académie: five downloadable PDFs such as «Comment rédiger votre CV» and «Checklist CV», several webinars, and for the actual writing a paid partner, Labo-CV, which produces application dossiers to Swiss market standards.

The Swiss dossier is not a resume, and no board explains that

If you are arriving from the US, the UK or India, the format itself is the first obstacle. A Swiss application expects a photo where American advice tells you to leave one out; work references — Arbeitszeugnisse — that have no equivalent in most countries; language skills stated as CEFR levels, B2 or C1, not «fluent»; a workload given as a percentage, because 80 per cent roles are ordinary here; and two pages rather than one.

Neither board teaches you any of this, and a generic international CV builder will actively get it wrong. Our generator writes those conventions into the document rather than into a checklist, and it writes in the language the interface is set to — set it to French and you get a French CV without translating one.

Non-Swiss applicants also need the permit line. Whether you hold a B, a C, an L or an EU/EFTA entitlement belongs in the document, because it is the first thing a Swiss recruiter looks for and its absence reads as a problem.

If you are registered with an ORP

Anyone claiming unemployment benefit in Switzerland has to document their job-search efforts every month. From the applications you track with us, we fill the official SECO form for those efforts — completed, signed, in German, French or Italian. jobup.ch has nothing of the sort; the list of your applications there is a list inside your account.

One line that admits no exception: your job-search efforts only count once they are submitted to your RAV/ORP — through Job-Room, the cantonal form, or whatever route your office prescribes. Our form is a way of filling that in, never a substitute for filing it. Cantonal practice differs, so what counts as submitted is a question for your own ORP.

When jobup.ch is the better answer

For the widest choice in French-speaking Switzerland it is jobup.ch, and by some distance for anything new. If you search weekly, the turnover difference is the most consequential thing on this page.

Also theirs and not ours: employer profiles with employee reviews, a salary estimate by occupation and canton, an iOS and Android app, automatic translation of adverts, applying without logging in, and «Spotted by jobup.ch», where recruiters approach you on the basis of your CV. Our salary tool computes the national median and the statutory deductions, which is the coarser instrument for a cantonal question.

Both are free to search from anywhere, and neither asks for a Swiss address or an AHV number before it will show you adverts — worth saying, because some Swiss services do.

Who should use which

Use jobup.ch to find the advert: it is bigger, it moves faster, it reads employer reviews and it costs a job seeker nothing.

Use us on the advert you found: a CV written against that one posting, the matching cover letter, a check against the same text, and — if you are registered with an ORP — the completed efforts form at the end of the month. If you need the interface in German or Italian, jobup.ch does not offer either.

Both are free to search, so this is not a choice you have to make.