SwissJobs.app or Teal — which CV builder for the Swiss market?

SwissJobs and Teal compared

Checked on Teal's own pages on 3 September 2026. Prices change — the current figure is on their pricing page, not here.

Two tools answering two different questions

Teal answers: does my resume contain the words this posting uses? That is a diagnosis. You keep your document, you get a score and a list of what is missing, and you work through the list. If you already have a good resume and want to sharpen it for the twelfth English-language application, that is fast and it works.

SwissJobs.app answers a different question: what does the document this advert asks for look like? The generator reads the posting and rewrites the profile, the roles and the skills against it, in about a minute, without inventing anything that is not in what you supplied. From there the document is yours: any line can be overwritten directly, and anything you would rather dictate than type goes in as an instruction — "cut the last role to three lines" is enough.

The difference does not show up on the first CV. It shows up on the twentieth. A diagnosis scales badly: twenty lists, twenty times writing it yourself. A rewrite scales well but asks you to trust a first draft, which is why being able to correct every line afterwards is not a nice extra — it is the condition that makes the approach usable at all.

What five keywords cover on a Swiss advert

Teal’s free tier caps keyword matching at the "Top 5". That sounds mild until you count what those five are a sample of. On 4 September 2026 we opened the real advert text for 253 randomly drawn live adverts — roughly 60 each in German, English, French and Italian, apprenticeships and internships excluded — and counted the distinct content words in each, meaning everything left after the filler and function words are removed.

An English-language Swiss advert carries a median of 182 of them. Five keywords are 2.7 per cent of that. A French advert carries 145, so 3.4 per cent; an Italian one 128, so 3.9; a German one 120, so 4.2. English adverts in Switzerland are the longest and the most verbose of the four, which is the part worth knowing if you are reading this from abroad: the version of the market that is most legible to you is also the one where five keywords stand for the least.

The second finding is the more serious one, and it is about the method rather than the free tier. A keyword ranking needs something to rank on, and that is normally frequency: what appears often counts as important. But 82 per cent of the content words in an English-language Swiss advert appear exactly once. In a German one it is 92 per cent, in an Italian one 85.5, in a French one 83.

So a Swiss advert barely has an internal ranking to find. Requirements are listed once each and each is equally binding — "driving licence category B", "willingness to do standby duty", "German at professional level". Picking the five most frequent is then closer to arbitrary than to accurate. This is not a flaw in Teal; it is a property of the text type, and a method built for longer, more repetitive American postings has less to grip on here.

Where Teal is honestly better

The free tier. Teal calls it Free Forever and means it: unlimited resume versions, unlimited job tracking, ten templates, and unlimited DOC or PDF export according to its own editor page. Ours caps at five documents a day and ten per rolling week. If you want to try a lot and pay nothing, Teal gives you more.

The tracker. Status columns, reminders, analytics on your own search, an email template per stage, and a Chrome extension that saves postings from other people’s sites — we have none of that, and our application list is the plainer tool at that job. If you are running many applications in parallel over months and want numbers on your own funnel, Teal is the better place for it.

The pricing is also described fairly, which is rarer in this field than it should be. "No credit card required to start" is on the pricing page; the weekly, monthly and quarterly prices sit side by side with a per-day figure; and the questions underneath state plainly that a cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period rather than immediately.

For completeness, because this is a comparison and not an advertisement: on our side, saving and downloading both require an account. The editor opens without one — we checked on 4 September 2026, and the entry page and setting up a document both work anonymously — but generating a version against an advert and keeping it needs an email address. No card.

What an American editor has no field for

Teal’s editor is built around one document, the resume. A Swiss application is a folder: CV, motivation letter, Arbeitszeugnisse (the written references every Swiss employer issues on leaving), diplomas. That is a difference of scope rather than of quality, but you notice it late — when the file is finished and half the dossier is still missing.

At field level, three lines that are read here do not exist in an American resume. The Pensum, the workload written as a percentage rather than as hours a week. The permit line — B, C or G — if you do not hold a Swiss passport. And language skills as CEFR levels, B2 or C1, rather than "fluent". Add the photograph, which is conventional in Switzerland instead of discouraged. If you are relocating from the UK or the US, that last one tends to be the surprise.

The one thing no international tool has is the proof of job-search efforts. At /arbeitsbemuehungen we fill in the official SECO form, in German, French or Italian, from the applications you have already recorded. This part is not negotiable: your efforts only count where your RAV accepts them. We produce the completed sheet, not the registration and not the recognition.

Language is the hard break

Teal exists in English. There is no German, French or Italian version of the interface or of what it writes. For an English-language advert at an international employer in Zurich, Basel or Zug, that costs you nothing. For everything else it ends the exercise, because the language of the dossier is decided by the advert and not by you.

That is the trap for a reader arriving from outside Switzerland. Zurich and Basel look like English-speaking job markets from the outside, and in parts of pharma, banking and tech they are. Across the country as a whole they are not, and the moment your search widens beyond those employers, an English-only tool stops being able to produce the document.

On our side each of the four languages has its own pages, and the document is written in the language you are using the tool in. That is not a translate button at the end; it is the language the text is composed in, and the difference is audible to a Swiss reader in the same way a translated cover letter is.

Our own numbers: price, free tier, design

The tiers, read out of the code on 4 September 2026 rather than off our own marketing. Without an account, the editor runs. With a free account — email address, no card — the work is kept; the allowance is five documents a day and ten in a rolling week, and the same budget covers motivation letters and the instructions given to the AI. Seven days of trial follow. Unlimited access after that costs CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year and can be cancelled whenever you like.

The phrase "designer templates" would overstate our side, so it is not used here. What exists is 54 design variations, and the arithmetic behind that is checkable: 2 layouts times 3 fonts times 9 accent colours, recounted in the code today. Freely combined, all on the same Swiss format. Teal’s editor page advertises "100+ free templates", though its pricing table caps the free tier at ten. Visible variety is a point for Teal; we change the content per advert instead, and a template changes how a CV looks, not what it says.

One narrow but real advantage, and it only holds for adverts we carry ourselves: open the generator from one of our listings and the title, the employer and the advert text are already in the form. Apply to a vacancy we do not carry and you paste the text — as with Teal, and as everywhere else.

Who should take which

Take SwissJobs.app if you are applying to Swiss adverts and want a CV tailored per posting, if you write in German, French or Italian, if your dossier needs a permit line and CEFR levels, or if you are registered with an RAV and would rather not fill the job-search-efforts form in by hand.

Take Teal if your search is in English and runs for months, if you are managing many applications at once and want to measure your own funnel, if a browser extension matters more to you than the Swiss format — or if you simply want to spend nothing, because Teal’s free tier covers more than ours and costs zero.

And take both if that is not too much bother. They overlap less than the comparison suggests: Teal is strong at tracking a long search, we are strong at producing the document for one specific Swiss advert. The line to draw is between two jobs, not between two prices.