RAV and unemployment
Registration, deadlines, job-search efforts, and what happens when the record does not hold up.
The obligations are concrete: register in time, prove a set number of job-search efforts each month, attend the appointments. Mistakes cost suspension days, and the most common ones come not from unwillingness but from a record reconstructed at the end of the month.
Our application tracker keeps every application with the advert it went to and prints the official SECO job-search-efforts form from it — in German, French or Italian.
The basics
15- Do I have to apply for jobs during my notice period in Switzerland?
- Do I get unemployment benefit in Switzerland if I resigned myself?
- Can I turn down a job assigned to me by the RAV?2
- RAV appointments: how often, how to move one, and what missing one costs5
- RAV courses and measures: when attendance is compulsory, who pays, and how to propose a better one
- Suspension days: what triggers them, and how many
- How long does Swiss unemployment benefit last? Daily allowances, the two-year frame, and what happens after4
- Workplace bullying in Switzerland: what the law actually says2
- What happens if I move canton?
- Ill or injured while unemployed in Switzerland: the deadlines, the daily allowances and what comes after
- Unemployment benefit after a fixed-term contract?
- Can I register with the RAV and study?
- Unemployment benefit if self-employed?
- The probation period in Switzerland
- A CV tool with the RAV proof-of-applications form — does that exist?