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What is the best job site in Switzerland?Which job board for Switzerland — jobs.ch, jobup, Indeed, LinkedIn or SwissJobs.app? What each is best for, without sales prose.
Job portals in Switzerland: reputation, coverage and who owns themWhich job portals in Switzerland have the best reputation? · What are the top job portals for Zurich? · Which job site is the best in Switzerland — and how would you measure that? · Where do I find current job openings in Switzerland — and how current is “current”? · Where do I find federal or cantonal jobs in Switzerland — and can a foreigner apply for them?
How do I find a part-time job in Switzerland?Only about one advert in twenty is posted as part-time — and the highest shares are not in Zurich or Geneva but in Solothurn, Baden, Winterthur and Bern. Where part-time work actually is.
Where are the most open jobs in Switzerland?Where are the most open jobs in Switzerland? · Which region has the most job openings?
When are most jobs posted in Switzerland?Wednesday is the strongest day and the weekend is practically dead: around nine in ten adverts appear Monday to Friday. What that means for the rhythm of your search — and why the January claim stays unproven.
Which jobs are most in demand in Switzerland?Retail, hospitality and nursing post the most adverts. But the hardest roles to fill are different: trades vacancies stay open more than twice as long as the market average. Figures from our ongoing analysis.
Why is the same job posted several times?About a fifth of Swiss adverts belong to a group sharing one job title and employer — mostly retail chains advertising per branch. When repeats are harmless and when they are not.
How long does a job advert stay online?Half of all open roles are less than about three weeks old — but the median in the trades is 41 days and in engineering 15. What an advert's lifespan tells you about your odds.
Jobs in ZurichAlmost one in five Swiss adverts we track sits in the canton of Zurich. A literal search for «Zürich» misses about a quarter of them — and the Zurich list is older, more senior and more office-heavy than the rest of the country.
Jobs in BernAbout one in ten Swiss adverts we track sits in the canton of Bern, and six in ten of the country's public-administration adverts. Only 5 percent of Bern adverts are written in English — the lowest share of any large Swiss market.
Jobs in BaselBasel holds about 6% of the Swiss job adverts we track but a third of the country's life-science advertising. Two thirds of those adverts ask for no German at all, while nine in ten of the rest do. Plus the commuter ring you lose by filtering on the canton.
Jobs in GenevaGeneva asks for English in 65 percent of its listings and French in 54.5 percent, but for both in only 21.1 percent. That is not a bilingual market — it is two markets side by side, and the spelling an employer uses for the city tells you which one you are looking at before you read a word of the advert.
Jobs in LausanneThe median Lausanne listing has been online for 44 days. In Bern it is 17, in Zurich 19, in Geneva 25. Four in ten Lausanne adverts are more than two months old, and the recruiters are not to blame — direct employers are. How to reach the fresh openings anyway.
Jobs in LucerneEnglish alone is enough for 2.9 per cent of Lucerne adverts and 36.9 per cent in neighbouring Zug. Six employers carry half of the canton’s list, and the biggest is a hospital. What that means for how you search.
Starting out without experienceNine per cent of open Swiss adverts carry an entry signal in the title, and 46 per cent of those are apprenticeships. The phrase "no experience" appears in two advert titles in the whole index. Which words work instead, why "Junior" is not entry level here, and which employers actually advertise the first step.
Where do I find English-speaking jobs in Switzerland — and how do I tell which ones really work without German?A third of the adverts you can work in English alone sit in canton Zurich, but Geneva and Zug are the densest markets. One in five English-written adverts still demands German or French. Where to look, which words to search, and the fields where it actually works.
Where do I find part-time jobs in Switzerland?Swiss adverts record part-time in two incompatible ways, and each one hides most of the other: 71 percent of adverts offering 60 percent or less carry no part-time marking at all. Where reduced workloads actually sit — by occupation, by employer, by wording.
Where do I find nursing jobs in Switzerland — and why does so much of the market sit with about two dozen employers?The 25 largest advertisers carry 69.4 per cent of the nursing adverts we track, against 30.2 per cent in the rest of the market. Only 0.7 per cent of nursing adverts are written in English, and 89.8 per cent of those stating a language want German.
Where do I find IT jobs in Switzerland — and why does searching for "IT" miss most of them?About 12 percent of the open Swiss vacancies we track are IT roles, but only 12.6 percent put "IT" in the title. 43.9 percent are posted by agencies rather than employers, 70.6 percent of employer-posted IT roles sit inside non-IT organisations, and 46.2 percent of those stating a language requirement are workable in English alone.
Where do I find admin and office jobs in Switzerland — and why does searching in English find so few of them?Just under 5% of open Swiss adverts are office and admin roles, but only 5.8% of those that state a language requirement accept English on its own, against 19.9% market-wide. Search the department, not the profession: the six obvious search words find 65.1% of the field, the full fifteen 97.5%.
Where do I find retail jobs in Switzerland, and why does a job board find so few of them?Ten employers account for 68.1 percent of the retail adverts we hold, against 21.6 percent in the rest of the market. Retail is also the least English-friendly segment we measure: 5.3 percent of its adverts are written in English, against 27 percent elsewhere.
Where do I find hospitality jobs in Switzerland — and why does searching in English find almost none of them?Only 5.7 per cent of Swiss hospitality adverts are written in English, and the word "chef" is not the one employers use. Half of all kitchen vacancies are titled in French. Nearly half sit outside hotels and restaurants. Plus the binding minimum wage no advert mentions.
Where do I find construction and trades jobs in Switzerland — and why does the word "trades" match nothing?No Swiss construction advert calls itself "trades", and "electrician" matches only a third of the electrical vacancies. 43.6 per cent are placed by a staffing firm rather than the builder. Plus: the diploma code as a search term, three languages and almost no English, the binding wage floor, and the trades that go to the RAV first in 2026.
Where do I find logistics jobs in Switzerland — and why does one word cover two separate labour markets?61.7 per cent of supply-chain adverts are written in English; in road transport and delivery, none are. Only 30.2 per cent of logistics adverts sit in a major city, and a third of everything with "logistics" in the title is an apprenticeship. Plus the licences, the forklift certificate and the head start registered jobseekers get.
Where do I find engineering jobs in Switzerland — and why are two in three “Engineer” results software roles?Only 27.8 percent of the adverts that carry the word Engineer are engineering jobs; the rest are software. Engineering is the most English-language field we measure, and 78.7 percent of its English adverts never mention German at all.
Jobs near meThe average Swiss commute is 14 km and 30 minutes, and 71% of commuters work outside the municipality they live in. Typing your town into a search box searches the one place where most people do not work — here is what to search instead.
Are there jobs in Switzerland without German?36.2% of Swiss adverts that state a language requirement do not ask for German at working level. But 44% of those need French or Italian, not English — for an English speaker the real figure is 20.3%.
Which jobs have the fewest applicants in Switzerland — and how would anyone know?No Swiss advert tells you how many people applied. Two official series come close: unemployment by occupational group (0.6 to 7.5 per cent, SECO July 2026) and the 2026 job-registration list of 34 crowded occupation types. Plus what our own live adverts show about the filters that thin a pile.
Where do I find jobs for cross-border commuters in Switzerland?Nearly three quarters of Switzerland's cross-border commuters work in five cantons, and 25 municipalities carry more than half. What that means for a G-permit job search, plus the language each border's adverts actually demand.
Changing careers in SwitzerlandFour in a thousand Swiss openings mention career changers, and almost all of them are in German. Which fields hire without a matching background, why the language bar is higher than the experience bar, and how to earn the Swiss qualification with five years of work instead of an apprenticeship contract.
Where do I find jobs in Switzerland if I am over 50?There is no over-50 segment to search. There is a years-of-experience threshold, and it sits almost entirely in English-language adverts: 21.1 per cent of them name a number of years, against 0.9 per cent of German-language ones. What the federal statistics say about the 55-to-64s, and which fields, employers and workloads to search instead.
Job alerts in Switzerland: the keyword, the cadence and what slips throughA job alert is three decisions: where you set it, which words you store, how often it fires. How far a single keyword reaches, why your real criteria never appear in the title, which weekdays adverts are published on, and why the same advert arrives twice.
How often are new jobs posted in Switzerland — and how often should I actually check?Across the whole Swiss market a new advert appears every few minutes. In the search you actually run — one occupation, one canton — you wait hours or days. What stays constant is the weekly turnover: a fifth to a third of any result list is new after seven days.
How current are job listings — and is the date shown on them accurate?We opened 600 Swiss job adverts at the employer's own page. Of the ones we could judge, 94.8% still showed the job — but only 36.5% gave the same posting date as the list they came from.
How do I spot a fake job advert — and what does a real Swiss one look like?Check where the application link goes: 53.2% of live Swiss adverts lead to the employer's own domain, 45.5% to a named applicant system, none to a messenger. Plus what the Federal Office for Cyber Security reported in 2026 and how old the domains behind real adverts are.
What does 80–100% mean in a Swiss job advert?It is the Pensum — the workload, expressed as a share of that employer’s full week. Why it is not a pay cut, why 100% is 40, 41.5 or 42 hours depending on who is hiring, and why English adverts almost never tell you.
What does m/w/d mean in a Swiss job advert?m/w/d is German for male, female, diverse. The third letter comes from German law and has no equivalent in the Swiss civil register — and the letters tell you whether the advert was written in English or translated.
How do I read a Swiss job advert properly?Read from the edges in: the title line and the closing block are binding, the middle is marketing. And read what is missing — 0.5 per cent of Swiss adverts name a figure in francs, 0.02 per cent set an application deadline. In the EU both would be different since 7 June 2026.
Which requirements in a Swiss job advert are actually mandatory?A Swiss job advert is not an offer in law and binds nobody. Counted across the open Swiss market: language is the only requirement employers in the same occupation agree on, at 83.6 per cent. A vocational qualification appears in 12.4 per cent, a driving licence in 2.7.
How many job openings are there in Switzerland?The Federal Statistical Office counted just under ninety-nine thousand vacancies in the 2nd quarter of 2026 — 1.7% of all jobs. Around forty-five thousand were registered with the RAV in July. A job board shows a third number, and it counts adverts.
How long does a job search take in Switzerland?Switzerland’s only official job-search duration counts days from the day you register with an RAV — and 38.7 per cent of registered jobseekers are left out of it entirely. What five months does and does not mean.
Which Swiss jobs actually offer relocation support?Relocation comes up in 1.7 per cent of Swiss adverts — but only a quarter of those are a Swiss employer actually offering it. 68 per cent are jobs somewhere else entirely, advertised at people living in Switzerland. Who really offers relocation help, which language the adverts are written in, and the one-second test that filters out the rest.
English-speaking jobs in Switzerland — which board actually shows them?Checked on 4 September 2026: jobs.ch has the best language filter but two thirds of its adverts carry no language field at all, JobScout24 and LinkedIn have none, and Job-Room stores the requirement without letting job seekers search it. With the numbers each board publishes about itself.
The hidden job market in Switzerland: which jobs never reach the big boards?Measured on 4 September 2026: of seventy employers publishing through their own applicant system, fifty-four appeared on neither jobs.ch nor Job-Room. Employers advertising only in English were the least visible of all.
Why does Easy Apply never answer?Easy Apply has no rejection step — LinkedIn only tells you your application was viewed, and says in writing that this guarantees nothing. Plus Swiss market figures: English-language adverts fill up nine times as often as German-language ones.
How do I get a graduate job in Switzerland with no experience?Only about one per cent of open Swiss adverts invite beginners in so many words — but only a fifth state a hard experience requirement. Which part of the Swiss market is actually open to a graduate, measured from our own index, and the language trade-off that comes with it.
I am applying for jobs in another part of Switzerland — what do I put on my CV if I do not live there yet?What belongs on a Swiss CV when the job is in a different region from where you live: the address line, the commute, the availability date. With counts from the open Swiss job adverts.
Does living in another canton hurt my job application in Switzerland?Zurich carries 18.4% of live Swiss adverts, the whole Ticino region 1.5%. What moving region actually changes: supply, advert language, and the line your CV needs.
Rocken jobs: why do so many Swiss job ads come from Rocken, and how does applying through it work?Rocken is a recruitment agency, not an employer. What happens after you upload your CV, what a rejection from Rocken means, and why almost a third of the IT adverts we hold come from Rocken.
Can I work in a Swiss Kita without the FaBe EFZ qualification?Yes, as an intern, assistant or apprentice, but not as the trained carer responsible for a group. Zurich requires one trained carer per group at all times; Vaud caps untitled staff at 20 percent. What Swiss daycare adverts actually ask for, the language bar, and the three adult routes to the EFZ.