SwissJobs.app or RadarJob — which one tailors a CV to a Swiss job advert?

Feature comparison

Everything about RadarJob was read from the vendor's own page on 4 September 2026; our rows come from the code (lib/stripe/trialConfig.ts) and from walking the live flow. "not stated" means it could not be read on their site — not "does not exist".

Pricing side by side

Everything about RadarJob was read from the vendor's own page on 4 September 2026; our rows come from the code (lib/stripe/trialConfig.ts) and from walking the live flow. "not stated" means it could not be read on their site — not "does not exist".

English adverts are the longest thing you would be pasting

RadarJob asks for the advert as text you supply. To see what that actually costs, we took a deterministically drawn sample of 240 open adverts from our own index on 4 September, apprenticeships and internships excluded, and measured how much advert text is attached to the posting. Real advert text came back for 77.1 per cent of them.

The length is the work. The median advert runs to 284 words. The lower quarter gets away with 144, the upper quarter starts at 465, and the longest tenth begins at 669 words. Just under half — 48.6 per cent — are over 300 words, and 26.5 per cent are under 150. Tailoring per advert means that block of text goes through your clipboard once for every application you send.

Split by the language the advert is written in, English is the heavy one: a median of 420 words against 333 for French adverts and 245 for German ones. An English-language Swiss posting is close to twice the length of a German one. Italian-language adverts were too few in this draw to put a number on, so there is none here.

The honest qualifier: for just under a quarter of postings we hold no advert text either, and for an advert we do not carry at all you paste it the same way. The saving is one action per application, not a difference in kind — it simply repeats with every application you make.

What their own shipped code says the tool does

The free tool sends its templates, colours and labels to the browser with the page, which makes them readable rather than guessable. Five layouts are offered: «Deux colonnes», «Sobre (vert)», «Classique N&B», «Bandeau coloré» and «Moderne (timeline)», with five accent colours — green, blue, burgundy, charcoal, teal — and the black-and-white model staying black and white.

Two of the five layouts carry an «ATS ⚠» badge on the selection button, and choosing one raises a notice warning that a two-column layout may be misread by some screening software, recommending a single-column model instead. That is more candid than most template galleries manage, and it is a warning we do not print on our own designs. If that kind of disclosure is what you are looking for, they have it and we do not.

After generation you get an editor with eight sections — identity, profile, experience, education, skills, languages, «Permis & mobilité» and interests — with the fields on the left and a live preview on the right. The work permit line is a field of its own, so RadarJob plainly knows what a Swiss dossier needs; «we understand Switzerland» is not an argument against this competitor. What the editor cannot take is an instruction in words: changing something there means typing, field by field.

Output is A4, as PDF. No Word file appears anywhere on the site or in the shipped code. For a Swiss application that gets forwarded, commented on and sometimes reformatted by an agency, that is the practical gap — we hand over both PDF and Word, neither watermarked.

Why the language boundary decides this for most English-speaking readers

RadarJob is French by construction, not by default. The site declares itself French, its own address listing holds fourteen addresses and all of them are French, and the German, English and Italian variants return not-found. More to the point, the headings of the generated CV are fixed in the shipped code, so an English CV against an English advert still comes back under «Profil», «Expérience professionnelle», «Formation», «Compétences», «Langues» and «Permis & mobilité».

For anyone arriving from abroad, that lands in an awkward place, because the English-language Swiss job market is not where people assume it is. In an earlier count of our own open adverts, published elsewhere in this collection, 53.7 per cent of Geneva postings were written in English against 45.3 per cent in French. Geneva is the most French-speaking-looking city on the map and its adverts are majority English. A French-labelled CV is not automatically the right answer even inside the Romandie — the advert decides, not the canton.

One thing worth saying for readers who are not in Switzerland yet: neither tool requires a Swiss address, a residence permit or a social-security number to use. RadarJob asks for nothing at all; we ask for an email address when you save and from the second document. The barrier here is the language of the finished document, not registration.

What survives after you close the tab

RadarJob is unusually clear about this: their privacy policy states that the content of the CV and the advert is processed only as long as it takes to produce the result, then deleted, and not stored on their servers. If your priority is that your CV does not sit on anyone else's system, that is exactly what you want, and we deliberately offer the opposite.

We keep a separate version per application, with the advert stored beside it. That is where the effort of tailoring pays for itself — the second application to the same employer, the follow-up three weeks later, the moment somebody calls and you need to know what you actually sent them. It also feeds the official job-search-efforts sheet that Swiss unemployment offices ask for, filled from the applications you have recorded.

And the line we put on every page that mentions that sheet: we produce the filled form, your regional employment office decides whether it accepts it, and your job-search efforts still have to be recorded where they legally count. A printed sheet from us does not replace that.

The subscription beside it is a different product

The free CV tool is not RadarJob's business. What they sell is a watch: the service monitors jobup.ch and jobs.ch, scores new postings against your profile and emails you the matches, each with a ready-made cover letter as a PDF. The Standard plan is 39 CHF a month and covers five running searches, a sweep every six hours and at most two alerts a day. A Premium plan at 49 CHF a month, with sweeps every two hours and the public employment portal added, was announced but marked «coming soon» and could not be bought on 4 September.

The terms are short and readable: monthly renewal, cancel any time, no refund for the current month, Swiss law, courts in the canton of Fribourg. Behind it is not a corporation but a sole trader in Rossens in that canton, who writes on the homepage that he built RadarJob while unemployed himself. This is a serious operator, not a template clone.

On where the data physically sits, since Swiss hosting is often sold as a feature: neither of us can claim it. RadarJob names foreign hosting providers and a US-based AI provider in its privacy policy; we run on European infrastructure. If the server location outranks everything else for you, look closely at both.

Who should pick which

Pick RadarJob if you are applying in French and need one or two tailored CVs. It costs nothing, asks for no account, lets you download the PDF without leaving an email address, and keeps none of your data. In that situation you would be paying us for something you can have from them for free — and their five layouts are visually more varied than our two.

Pick SwissJobs.app if you are applying to Swiss adverts continuously, and especially in English or German. Then it matters that the document comes out in your language, that the advert text is already in the form for postings we carry, that you can change the result by asking rather than by editing eight sections of fields, that it exports as Word as well as PDF, and that a version stays saved per application to fill the job-search-efforts sheet from.

And if what you actually want is somebody to bring the adverts to you rather than you going to find them: we do not do that. Nobody at our end emails you scored postings twice a day with a letter attached. That is what RadarJob's subscription is for, and whether it is worth 39 CHF a month is a bigger question than which of the two tailors a CV better.