User guide

Finding jobs

• All configured sources are scanned every 12 hours (FETCH_INTERVAL_HOURS). ↻ Scan now on the homepage starts a scan at once; the page shows "Scanning…" and refreshes itself, then the time of the last scan, how many new jobs it found and a count per source.
• If a source failed or suddenly returned nothing (the site changed or blocked the scan), a ⚠ Last scan had problems banner explains it.
• New jobs are sorted by a match score (0-100): how many of your skills the posting mentions (words in the title count triple).
• Search and filters (bar above every list): a keyword (title, company, place or text; accents and capitals don't matter, every word must be there), the type of role (your own title words from Settings, such as "dessinat…", and the usual roles), when the job was found (24 hours to 30 days), the distance from your home town in km, and the order (best match, newest, nearest). Each card shows the distance. Filter first, then Select all to discard or shortlist what is left.
• ★ Best new (first tab): the ten best-ranked jobs that arrived since your last visit. In the full list those jobs carry a new badge.
• The same job from several agencies is one card. When the employer and one or more agencies advertise the same position, the list shows it once with "Same job also posted by". What you do to the card (discard, shortlist, applied) is done to its copies; applying to one discards the others as duplicates.
• Several jobs at once: tick jobs (or Select all), choose a reason, then Discard the selected or Shortlist the selected. Or type a score and discard every job of the list under it (jobs the ORP assigned to you are never swept away).
• 📋 My week: what came in during the last 7 days, the best of it, applications against the monthly target, interviews coming up, and what waits for a follow-up.

Tracking applications

• Tabs: new · shortlisted · applied · interview · offer · rejected · discarded.
• On every job in a list: ✓ Applied, ☆ Shortlist, and ✕ Not for me: the first click greys the job out (it stays where it is, ↩ Keep brings it back), a second click (✕ Remove) moves it to discarded. From the discarded tab, ↩ Back to new restores it.
• Why? When a job is greyed out, the Why? menu removes it with a reason (not my kind of job, too senior, too far, wrong language, work rate, company, duplicate...). The Stats page then shows Why jobs were discarded: how many per reason, which sites they came from, the words those titles share and what to change in Settings. The list can be downloaded as CSV, for example to send to the person who tunes the search.
• ⊘ Position filled (list and job page): the posting is no longer open. If you had applied, the job becomes a refusal with the reason "Poste déjà pourvu" and stays in your ORP report; if not, it leaves the list.
• Entering an applied date on the job page moves the job to Applied (the report and the stats count by that date); moving a job back to new or shortlisted removes the date.
• Open & apply ↗ opens the posting in a new tab, then asks "Did you apply?": Yes moves the job to Applied and records the date.
• The job page keeps the contact, recruiter, CV version sent, applied and follow-up dates, notes, and the fields the ORP report needs (employment rate, how you applied, assigned by the ORP, reason for a refusal). Follow-ups due in the next 14 days show on the homepage.
• + Add application records jobs found elsewhere (LinkedIn, a recruiter, a referral).
• + Add a job posting (top bar, or the top of the Add page) takes the link of a posting you found, or its text. The app reads the title, company, place and description (from the page's structured data when it has some), you check them in a form, and it adds the job, scored like the others. Sites that don't let the app open their pages (LinkedIn usually): paste the text instead; the first line is taken as the title.

Does my search find postings like this one?

After adding a posting (and from the 🔎 button of any job page) the app compares it with your settings and says what would make a scan miss it, with a button for each fix:

• no title word of yours is in its title: add one (words from the title);
• its title has a word you skip, or its company is on your never-show list: stop skipping it / show it again;
• none of your search terms is in the title: search for the title too;
• its town isn't in your towns: add the town (and its canton to the job-room source);
• it's written in a language you don't search: add the language;
• the title states a work rate outside the one you want (change it in Settings);
• skills it asks for that aren't in yours: the usual red chips (+ I have it / ⛔ Avoid).

A fix that widens the search starts a scan right away, so similar postings come in.

Reading a posting

• The job page shows the full posting (fetched the first time you open it).
• Skills are highlighted: green = in your skills, red = asked for but not in your skills, grey = a word you avoid.
• Each skill has buttons: + I have it (count it from now on), ⛔ Avoid (postings asking for it lose 25 points), ✕ (stop counting it). Open jobs are re-ranked at once and later scans use the same lists. The CV page lists them all (Skills & preferences) to add, undo or restore.

CV and cover letter

• Generate tailored CV (job page): a PDF, in the posting's language when you have a translated profile in it; summary and bullet order are chosen for that job, from your own facts only.
• Write cover letter (job page): a Swiss-format letter in the same language as the CV, naming the role, the company, the skills the posting asks for and your 3 most relevant achievements. It is a draft: edit it, Save edits, then Download PDF.
• CV page → CV for a role: pick a type of job; the CV leads with your skills that matter for it. Skills the role often needs that your profile lacks are listed so you can add them if true.
• CV page → CV from keywords: paste a posting's requirements; keywords your profile supports get a Key skills line and move matching bullets up; unsupported ones are listed, never added.

Settings

Settings (top menu) holds the search itself: search terms, titles to keep or skip, towns, languages, skills, sources, scan interval. Saving re-ranks the jobs already found, and when what is searched has changed (terms, titles, towns, languages, sources, work rate) a new scan starts by itself: the results are on the Jobs page a few minutes later. Changing your skills only re-ranks; it needs no scan. With the wizard enabled you can also edit your profile or re-run the setup wizard there.

Calendar: the Settings page gives an address to add to your phone's or computer's calendar (Apple, Google, Outlook: "subscribe" / "add by URL"). It shows your interviews (enter the date and time on the job page), ORP deadlines, follow-up dates, the hand-in of your proofs of job search on the 5th and a summary of the week every Monday. The address contains a long random key: anyone who has it can read those dates (job titles and companies, nothing else); New address makes the old one stop working.

Stats and the ORP report

• Stats: applications this month vs your ORP target (ORP_MONTHLY_TARGET, default 10), this week, total, answer rate, interview rate, average days to a first answer, weekly and monthly charts (click a bar for that period's report), funnel, sources, how you applied.
• ORP report: "Preuves des recherches personnelles en vue de trouver un emploi" for a week or a month, with PDF, CSV (Excel) and Print. Each application carries the link to the posting it was for (a link in the page, the address under the job title in the PDF, a column in the CSV). Copy the rows into Job-Room (work.swiss) or attach the PDF, as your ORP/RAV office asks, by the 5th of the following month. The AVS number is left blank to fill in by hand.

For people registered with an ORP / RAV

• Monthly target: the home page shows where you stand ("ORP target 10.2026: 4 / 10 applications · 9 days left") and turns into a reminder in the last ten days of the month. Until the 5th it also reminds you to hand in last month's proofs. Set your own target under Settings.
• Official form: on the ORP report of a month, Official ORP form (PDF) gives the unemployment-insurance form 716.007 itself, filled in with your applications (several copies when there are more than 14). Add your AVS number, the date and your signature.
• Assignments: tick Assigned by the ORP on a job and give the deadline: it is listed at the top of the home page with the days left.
• Spontaneous applications: + spontaneous application records a company you wrote to without a posting. It counts in the report and the target.

Where you search

• Home town and radius (Settings): change the town or the number of kilometres and the towns and cantons to search are recalculated. Leave the radius at 0 to keep a list of towns you typed yourself.
• Travel time: each job shows the time by public transport from your home town (🚆 23 min). With a longest travel in Settings, jobs further away are greyed out.
• Work rate: give the range you want (for example 60 to 80 %); jobs whose title states another rate are skipped.
• Companies you don't want: Never show this company on a job page, or the list in Settings.
• One-click fixes: the Why jobs were discarded table on the Stats page offers buttons such as skip titles with "industriel", stop searching in Fribourg or never show Adecco: one click changes the setting and clears the list.

On a job page

• This posting mentions: a language that isn't in your skills, a work-permit or nationality condition, a driving licence, a criminal-record extract.
• Salary: links to the official calculators (Salarium, national wage calculator), since postings rarely state pay.
• Posting offline: postings are re-checked every week; one that is gone is marked position filled (or noted, if you had applied).
• Follow-up message: ten days after an application without an answer, the home page suggests following up and the job page has a short message to copy, in the posting's language.
• Interview preparation sheet: for a job you applied to, a one-page PDF with what the posting asks for against your skills, your experience to mention, usual questions and questions to ask.

The CV of a job: text first, then PDF

• On a job page, Write the CV writes the CV for that job as text (the same way the cover letter works): summary, skills, jobs and points in the order that suits the posting. Change anything, then Save and update the PDF: the PDF holds exactly what you wrote. ## starts a section, ### a job (the next line is its dates), - a point. Your name, contact details and photo come from your profile.
• Save as a version keeps the text under a name (for example one per kind of job); ★ Save as default makes it the one offered first for every new job.
• My CV versions (tab on the CV page): every version with its name; rename, edit, open the PDF, make one the default, delete, or start a new one from your profile. On a job page, choose which version to start from, or "From my profile, tailored to this job".
• Letters work the same way. Under the letter of a job, Save as a letter version keeps it under a name and ★ Save as default letter makes it the one offered first. The company, the job title, the place and the date are stored as {company}, {title}, {location} and {date} and filled in for the next job. My letters (same tab as the CV versions) lists them; everyone gets one base letter written from their own profile to adapt. The page is laid out as a Swiss letter: your address top left, the company below it on the right, the subject, the text, and at the foot your name on the left with the place and date on the right. The type and spacing grow or shrink so that the letter fills one page. This works by what each block looks like, so an edited letter still lays out. The letter written for a job also names what you work with, your training and your languages when your profile lists them. The letter written for a job now has six short paragraphs: who you are and what you apply for, your background in your own words, what you bring for this posting, examples, why you want to join, and an invitation to meet.
• The CV page is balanced. Name and title at the top, contact details in a labelled band, your photo on the right. The type and the spacing grow until the last page is full, and a CV that would leave a few lines alone on a new page is tightened to end on the page before.
• Photo (CV page): upload a portrait once; it is placed at the top right of every CV made afterwards.

A stronger profile

• Often asked in your jobs (CV page): skills that the jobs found for you mention most and that are not in your list, with how many jobs ask for each. + I have it counts it from now on, ⛔ Avoid pushes those jobs down, not relevant stops the suggestion. Nothing is put on your CV unless your profile mentions it.
• Profile check (CV page): what a Swiss recruiter looks for and what is missing, with the reason: contact details, a job title, a summary of 3 to 5 lines, skills, dates, what you did in your last jobs, results with numbers, education, languages with their level, and a version of your profile in each language you search in.
• Your profile in another language: from the CV page, a form with your own text on the left and a box for the translation on the right. Nothing is machine-translated. A box left empty keeps the original; once saved, CVs and letters for postings in that language are written in it.
• Documents to send (job page): a checklist per application (CV, letter, work certificates, diplomas, references, permit copy, criminal-record and debt-register extracts, salary expectations, photo). The ones the posting names are marked; tick what is ready.

Improve: what to study

The Improve page reads the jobs found for you and says what they ask for, for all of them or for one kind of job:

• Skills you miss most: each skill with how many jobs ask for it, how many of the jobs you shortlisted or applied to, which kinds of job, three example postings, "I have it" / "not relevant", and a link to look for a course.
• Closest wins: skills that are the only thing missing in some jobs.
• Your skills that are asked most: what to put first on your CV.
• Languages asked with the level stated most (B2, fluent...), and whether the language is in your skills.
• Experience and qualifications asked: years of experience against yours, and the diplomas named (CFC, brevet, HES, Master...).
• By kind of job: where you match best and what each kind asks that you miss.
• Conditions and documents named most (driving licence, permit, work certificates, diplomas...).

People registered with an ORP / RAV can show the first table to their adviser: courses that close a gap asked by many jobs can be financed as a labour-market measure.

Score, badges and the league

• 🏅 My score (on My week, and next to it on the job list): points for what moves a search forward. Application sent 10, interview 30, offer 100, follow-up 5, a CV or a letter written for the job 3 each, the monthly target 25, a refusal 2, and 1 for each job shortlisted or discarded with a reason (at most 20 a week). Five levels, eleven badges (first application, 5 in a week, 3 weeks in a row, complete profile...), and a streak of weeks with an application.
• 🏆 The league (on a platform): a weekly race between the people who chose to join. You pick a nickname; the others see that nickname, your points, streak and badges, and nothing else: no name, e-mail, job or company. The week restarts every Monday and last week's champion is named. You can change nickname or leave at any time.

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