Which job board has the freshest Swiss listings — and how can you tell?

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.

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   2. jobs.ch

   The best-known board in German-speaking Switzerland and the largest index in the country. Owned by JobCloud AG — as are jobup.ch and JobScout24.

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   3. 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.

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   4. JobScout24

   A third brand from the same company. Searching all three to widen your search means searching one provider three times.

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   5. Indeed Switzerland

   The broadest aggregation, because Indeed also collects from other boards — at the cost of many duplicates of the same advert.

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   6. LinkedIn Jobs

   The best reputation for English-speaking and international roles in Switzerland. Considerably thinner for trades, care and commercial roles.

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   7. jobagent.ch

   A meta-search across the Swiss job boards, "every job in Switzerland at a glance". Its strength is the Job-Abo: a saved search that mails you new adverts from every portal it covers. Salary calculator and application guides alongside.

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   8. SwissDevJobs

   IT and software only, and thorough about it: "183 IT & Software developer jobs in Switzerland", filtered by technology (C#, Java, Python, DevOps, ML) rather than by industry. Publishes salary statistics and lists the companies that disclose their ranges. The site itself is in English.

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Six Swiss job lists, measured on 4 September 2026

All values collected on 4 September 2026 between 17:00 and 20:00 from the publicly reachable pages. Indeed and jobagent.ch refused the request and LinkedIn shows no count without an account, so they are absent rather than guessed at.

Five checks that test any job list in a few minutes

These five checks judge the list, not the individual advert. Whether one specific vacancy is still open is answered only by the employer’s own page.

Freshness is three quantities, and no site publishes all three

How fresh a job list is depends on three things: how much arrives each day, how old the stock is overall, and how strictly old adverts are removed. The third moves the number most and is never advertised.

A list that deletes every advert after thirty days necessarily has a younger stock than one that deletes nothing — without having found a single extra vacancy. That is exactly what this measurement shows: the two freshest lists are the two with a hard expiry rule. Nothing in Job-Room’s public stock is older than sixty days; the oldest advert on ostjob.ch is eleven days old. With us, 28,6 per cent are older than sixty days.

Both cost you something. A list with an expiry rule shows less but rarely shows something long since filled. A list without one also shows the vacancy open for three months because nobody applied — and that is precisely where the pile of applications is thin.

How the measurement was done

On 4 September 2026, between 17:00 and 20:00, each of the six lists was queried through its publicly reachable pages. Every total comes from the site’s own counter, not from an estimate.

For Job-Room the age profile could be read straight off its built-in filter: one query each for one, two, three, seven, fourteen, thirty and sixty days, and the result count beside it. For jobs.ch and jobup.ch the newest-first list was read page by page until it stopped, with each advert’s publication date recorded. For ostjob.ch the date-sorted list was bisected at the day boundaries until the page number was fixed at which a new calendar day begins. JobScout24 gave a counter and nothing else: its list ends first, and its results carry only a relative badge.

Our own values come from the same analysis that feeds the occupation and city pages, using the publication date the respective source states. It was produced at 15:37 on the day of the check and is therefore about four hours older than the other figures — our daily intake is the only one that stands too low rather than too high.

Three addresses are missing, and stated rather than passed over: Indeed and jobagent.ch did not answer the request at all, and LinkedIn shows a signed-out visitor neither a result count nor its date filters. Nothing about them is claimed here.

The counter at the top is not the list you can look through

JobScout24 counted over eighty-five thousand open vacancies on the day of the check, the largest figure in the set. Page through the results and the list ends on page 100; page 101 returns an error page. Twenty results a page makes two thousand adverts — 2,3 per cent of what the counter promises.

The same ceiling applies at jobs.ch and jobup.ch, there with an explicit message that the upper limit of two thousand results has been reached. Job-Room could be paged at least to the four-thousandth result on the day of the check, ostjob.ch to the last of its six thousand or so. Our own result list stops after two hundred entries; we offset that with separate pages per occupation and per city, but the ceiling is the lowest of the six.

For anyone searching from abroad this is the most useful single fact on the page. A large number on a home page says nothing about how much of it you will ever see. On three of the six lists a broad search shows you the same two thousand adverts as everyone else; the rest is reachable only by narrowing — a place, a workload in per cent, a job title. It is not a flaw in those sites, but it is why “eighty-five thousand vacancies” and “eighty-five thousand vacancies you can look through” are two different statements.

The date on an advert is not always the day it appeared

The most striking finding of the measurement is not in any counter but in the adverts themselves. Every jobs.ch result carries two moments: the publication date shown, and a first publication date. On 11,8 per cent of the newest results checked, the two fall on different calendar days. Take only the adverts dated to the day of the check and it is 18,1 per cent — a median of just over nine days apart, and almost thirty in the extreme case.

Two examples can be looked up. An advert for a maintenance engineering role at HYDRO Exploitation and one for a laboratory position at Unilabs both carry a publication time of 4 September, two in the morning; the same site’s record puts both at 5 August. What the page passes on in machine-readable form to search engines and language models is 4 September. Neither carries an end date.

The time of day gives away the mechanism: 166 of the re-dated adverts carry a publication time of exactly two in the morning, meaning an overnight pass that pushes existing vacancies back up the list. That is not an accusation, it is what the delivered data says — and republishing is ordinary practice in this market rather than one site’s quirk.

The comparison with the sister portal is what makes it worth knowing. jobup.ch runs on the same platform of the same company, and there exactly one advert in two thousand carried an earlier first date. Same capability, two different practices — so the word “today” has to be read differently from one portal to the next.

None of this is a reason to avoid jobs.ch: with just over twelve hundred adverts on the day of the check it had the second-largest daily intake in the set. It is a reason to read “today” on a result as what it is — a statement by the site, not a measurement.

One list tells you when an advert expires

Of the six lists, only Job-Room gives an end date. All two hundred adverts checked carried one; for newly filed vacancies the window runs thirty days, for older ones often sixty and occasionally more. After that the vacancy leaves the public list — which is why nothing there is older than sixty days.

The adverts checked on jobs.ch, JobScout24 and ostjob.ch carried no end date. That is not unusual: for job postings the start date is a required field in the machine-readable data search engines read, while the end date is only recommended. How unreliable a missing end date is we answered separately, against six hundred adverts checked one by one at the employer.

For the freshness question the end date is still the most honest single statement a list can make. It is the only one that says something about the advert’s future rather than its past — and the only one a site can later be held to.

What the measurement says about us

On the freshness number we come third of the four measurable lists, for three reasons that are all ours. First, we do not remove adverts on a fixed schedule but when we recognise them as closed: 28,6 per cent of our stock is older than sixty days, 0,5 per cent older than a year. Second, our daily intake, at about one per cent of stock, is smaller than the large portals’. Third, our collection has a visible gap in the last week of August — strikingly few adverts sit between 23 and 28 August, which distorts our own age curve for that week.

What we put against it is not the number but its checkability. Every result carries its age in plain words, and every occupation and city page states how many of the open adverts arrived in the last seven days — on the page for nurses that was 105 of 535 on the day of the check. No other list measured publishes that share, and it is precisely the figure you would need to judge a list.

And we do not move the publication date. That is the reason our stock is older and the reason the date means something with us. One limit belongs with it: we take the moment the source states. If a source re-dates its own advert, we inherit that date without seeing it.

Which list is right for whom

If you are searching in eastern Switzerland, start at ostjob.ch. No other list measured carries so young a stock, and every result shows a calendar date. The price is its scope: outside the region it is of no use.

If you are registered with an RAV, the regional employment centre, you belong in Job-Room anyway, for a reason that outweighs any freshness figure. In the occupations subject to the vacancy reporting duty, positions appear there before any private portal may show them, and job-search efforts count only once they are reported to your RAV. We are a convenience on top of that step and never a substitute — presenting it otherwise could cost you your benefit.

If you want to see as many fresh adverts in one day as possible, jobs.ch serves you best: just over twelve hundred new results on the day of the check, the second-largest daily intake of the set. In the French-speaking cantons jobup.ch gives you the breadth, but its stock is old — only 5,3 per cent is a week old or less. And if you want the widest choice, JobScout24 has it, provided you narrow the search, because the list otherwise ends after two thousand results.

One thing worth knowing if you are searching from outside Switzerland: none of the six requires an account to see the list, and none asks for a Swiss address to search. The date shown, though, is worth reading with the Swiss vocabulary in mind — a vacancy here is a Stelleninserat, pay is Lohn, holiday is Ferien, and the workload is a Pensum stated in per cent. Searching with those words returns more on every one of the six lists than the terms you brought with you.