Careerplus SA

What Careerplus SA does

Careerplus SA is a privately held Swiss recruitment and staffing agency headquartered in Bern and founded in 1995, operating through 14 branch locations across Switzerland to serve both German- and French-speaking economic regions. The company specializes in placing qualified specialists and executives in permanent positions and providing temporary staffing under the Swiss Collective Bargaining Agreement on Staff Leasing, with six core practice areas: Finance & Accounting, HR, Healthcare, Industry & Manufacturing, Sales, and Renewable Energy.

The company's service portfolio centers on a traditional recruitment agency model: specialized sector consultants conduct structured sourcing, interview over 8,000 specialists and visit approximately 5,500 companies annually, ultimately placing more than 2,000 qualified candidates each year. Supporting products include Assessments and Personality Tests, a Salary Calculator, biennial Salary Advisory Studies, White Papers, Jobsharing/Topsharing arrangements, and a dedicated Time Recording system for temporary staff. The underlying technology stack is non-proprietary, relying on the HR4YOU applicant management SaaS platform (HR4YOU AG, Germany) for online application processing, candidate management, and time tracking, with no disclosed in-house engineering or AI/ML capabilities.

Revenue is generated through two streams: placement fees for permanent placements (transaction-fee model) and temporary staffing services under staff leasing (professional-services model with billable hours). Distribution is primarily direct field sales through the 14-branch network, supplemented by an online job portal (careerplus.ch), content marketing (LinkedIn, YouTube, Xing, blog, salary studies, white papers), and a monthly newsletter. Customer base is distributed across six verticals and multiple regions with no named enterprise anchor logos disclosed. The company is governed by a three-person Board of Directors (Pascal Gueissaz, Frank Gerritzen, Jacqueline Scheuner) and shows no evidence of external institutional ownership, venture funding, or M&A activity.

Name

Careerplus SA

Legal name

Careerplus SA

Website

https://careerplus.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Careerplus SA is a privately held Swiss recruitment and staffing agency founded in 1995, operating 14 branches nationwide to place qualified specialists in permanent and temporary roles across Finance, HR, Healthcare, Industry, Sales, and Renewable Energy sectors in Switzerland.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Staffing and Recruitment Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Temporary Help Services (56132)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional & Technical Direct Hire (IT, Engineering, Finance, Healthcare) (BPACAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Healthcare Clinical Direct Hire (Nursing/Allied/Physicians) (BPACAFAH)

Keywords

• Permanent recruitment services
• Temporary staffing solutions
• Specialist recruitment
• Staff leasing
• Executive search

Headquarters

HQ city

Neuchâtel

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Specialist Recruitment Services: Careerplus generates revenue through placement fees for matching qualified candidates with employers seeking permanent positions. They specialize in recruiting professionals across Finance, HR, Healthcare, Industry, Sales, and Renewable Energy sectors in Switzerland.
2. Temporary Staffing Solutions: Revenue is generated through temporary employment services where interim workers are employed by Careerplus and contracted to client companies. This triangular relationship involves staff leasing under the Swiss CBA on Staff Leasing.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Careerplus SA is a Swiss recruitment agency that provides permanent placement of qualified specialists and temporary staff leasing to employers across six sectors: Finance, HR, Healthcare, Industry, Sales, and Renewable Energy. The firm operates 14 branches across Switzerland and uses sector-specialized consultants to match candidates with employers for both permanent positions and temporary assignments under the Swiss CBA on Staff Leasing. Supplementary services include candidate assessments, personality tests, and biennial salary studies for employers.

Product overview

Careerplus SA operates as a multi-service recruitment agency platform offering a unified portfolio of staffing and talent solutions across Switzerland. The core offering consists of a Careerplus Recruitment Platform — an online job board and candidate management system — complemented by Specialist Recruitment Services that leverage structured processes for permanent placement of qualified professionals. Supporting modules include Temporary Staffing Solutions (staff leasing under the Swiss CBA), Assessments and Personality Tests, Salary Advisory Studies, a Salary Calculator, White Papers, Jobsharing/Topsharing services, and a dedicated Renewable Energy Recruitment vertical. The company operates 14 physical branches across Switzerland, with digital touchpoints including the recruitment platform, online application tools, and time recording systems for temporary staff.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Specialist Recruitment Services Structured permanent placement service for qualified professionals across Finance, HR, Healthcare, Industry, Sales, and Renewable Energy sectors in Switzerland. The service covers active and passive candidate sourcing, leveraging an extensive candidate database, social media presence, and partnerships with educational institutions and associations, delivered by sector-specialized consultants.
• Temporary Staffing Solutions Staff leasing and temporary placement services for Swiss employers under the Swiss CBA on Staff Leasing, covering Finance, HR, Sales, Construction, Industry, IT, and Healthcare sectors. Includes temporary deployment, try-and-hire arrangements, and freelancer placements, with Careerplus acting as the legal employer of the temporary staff.
• Renewable Energy Recruitment Specialized recruitment vertical focused on the renewable energy sector, supporting Switzerland's 2050 climate strategy. Places professionals in roles such as project managers, engineers, technicians, construction managers (Bauleiter), and CECB experts across solar and energy sectors in Switzerland.
• Assessments and Personality Tests Candidate evaluation services for employers, including assessments and personality tests that supplement hiring evaluations with a systematically generated outsider perspective on candidate skills, behavior, and potential.
• Salary Advisory Studies Biennial salary studies providing an overview of the Swiss labor market and current compensation conditions across criteria such as profession, age, education, industry, and work location, published for Finance, Sales, HR, and Industry sectors.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 2000 qualified candidates placed annually across Switzerland
• +2 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Robert Half International: Robert Half specializes in placing professionals across finance, accounting, HR, technology, and administrative functions — a near-mirror of Careerplus's Finance, HR, Industry, and Sales verticals, using a similar vertical-specialist consultant model with permanent and temporary placement offerings.
• Hays plc: Hays is a global specialist recruiter with deep vertical expertise (accounting/finance, construction, healthcare, technology, sales) and a strong permanent-plus-temporary dual offering, making it a close functional comparator to Careerplus's verticalized Swiss specialist model.
• Michael Page International (PageGroup): Michael Page places mid-to-senior professionals across finance, HR, healthcare, sales, and engineering — directly overlapping Careerplus's vertical mix and price point for specialist permanent and interim recruitment in DACH markets.
• PageGroup plc: PageGroup operates Michael Page, Page Personnel, and Page Executive, providing specialist recruitment across similar professional verticals to Careerplus, including finance, HR, healthcare, sales, and engineering, with comparable dual permanent and interim placement models.
• Gi Group: Gi Group is an Italian-founded staffing and recruitment firm with a strong Swiss presence, offering permanent placement and temporary staffing across professional, industrial, healthcare, and sales verticals — a comparable mid-market specialist competitor to Careerplus in Switzerland.
• Spring Professional (Adecco): Spring Professional is Adecco's specialist professional recruitment brand, focusing on mid-to-senior roles across IT, engineering, finance, and sales — directly overlapping Careerplus's Finance, Industry, and Sales verticals with a similar specialist permanent placement model.

Broad incumbents

• Adecco Group: Adecco is the global staffing leader and is Swiss-headquartered, operating across general staffing, professional recruitment (Adecco Professional), and career transition (LHH) — overlapping with Careerplus's specialist and temp staffing offerings but at vastly greater scale and breadth.
• ManpowerGroup: ManpowerGroup is one of the largest global staffing firms with a significant Swiss presence, offering permanent, temporary, and talent reskilling services across professional and industrial segments — directly competing with Careerplus for both temp staffing and professional placement mandates.
• Randstad: Randstad operates a major Swiss staffing business (randstad.ch) covering professional, administrative, and industrial staffing — overlapping with Careerplus's temporary staffing and permanent placement offerings, but with broader geographic reach and larger candidate database.

Emerging players

• LHH (Lee Hecht Harrison): LHH, the career-transition and talent-mobility arm of the Adecco Group, provides outplacement, career coaching, and reskilling services — adjacent to Careerplus's candidate-facing support offerings, including assessments, personality tests, and career guidance.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/careerplusgroup
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/careerplus-group
• Xx.com/Careerplus_ch
• Facebookfacebook.com/careerplusgroup

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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