JobLex

Name

JobLex

Legal name

JobLex (Marke des Kaufmännischen Verbands Zürich)

Website

https://joblex.ch

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Career Advisory Services

NAICS

Human Resources Consulting Services (541612), Management Consulting Services (54161), Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPACAOAA

Individual Outplacement & Career Coaching

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Outplacement, Career Transition & Workforce Redeployment

SECONDARYBPAHAGAK

Labor Relations & Employment Practice Advisory

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Human Capital & Organizational Consulting

SECONDARYEDAAAFAM

Workforce & Job-Seeker Services (Community-Based)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Community & Public Education Programs (Libraries, Community Centers)

Keywords

• Career counseling services
• Resume review services
• Salary benchmarking
• Employment law consulting
• Job search coaching

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Advisory Services: JobLex generates revenue through fee-for-service consulting sessions. Customers pay per consultation or package: career checks (CHF 39-275), salary checks (CHF 52-84), certificate/reference checks (CHF 89-159), and labor law consultations (CHF 49-89). Payments are processed via credit card, Twint, or invoice (30-day terms). Revenue is transactional and not recurring in nature.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

JobLex is a Swiss digital advisory platform (joblex.ch) that sells professional consulting services delivered within 48 hours by a multidisciplinary team of certified career counselors, HR/salary specialists, and labor law attorneys. Its core offerings are CV-Check, LinkedIn-Check, Job-Interview-Training, Zeugnis-Check (employment certificate review), Lohn-Check (salary benchmarking), Karriere-Check (career counseling), and Arbeitsrechtsberatung (labor law consultation). Services are purchased per engagement via the website's integrated checkout and delivered via video, phone, or written feedback.

Product overview

JobLex is a career advisory service platform offered by the Kaufmännischer Verband Zürich. The platform provides a suite of professional consulting services: CV-Check and LinkedIn-Check for application document review, Job-Interview-Training for interview preparation, Zeugnis-Check for employment certificate evaluation, Lohn-Check for salary assessment and negotiation support, Karriere-Check for comprehensive career planning and guidance, and Arbeitsrechtsberatung for labor law consultation. Services are delivered by a team of certified career counselors, salary specialists, and labor law experts, with most consultations completed within 48 hours.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• JobLex: Career counseling and employment law advice platform offering CV-Check, Zeugnis-Check (certificate checking), Lohn-Check (salary checking), Karriere-Check (career checking), and Arbeitsrechtsberatung (employment law consultation) services.

Products and services

• CV-Check Professional review of the customer's curriculum vitae delivered via video call with verbal feedback, covering CV structure, design, completeness, and impact. Priced at CHF 79 (30-minute session). Intended for Swiss job seekers looking to optimize application documents.
• LinkedIn-Check Professional review of the customer's LinkedIn profile delivered via video call with verbal feedback, covering privacy protection, configuration tips, layout, and publishing guidance. Priced at CHF 85. Intended for Swiss professionals wanting an optimized and privacy-aware LinkedIn presence.
• Job-Interview-Training 1:1 Individual online training session in which the customer is challenged with difficult interview questions and receives feedback on the content and effectiveness of their responses. Priced at CHF 89. Intended for job seekers preparing for upcoming interviews.
• Zeugnis-Check Professional review of an employment reference or certificate (Arbeitszeugnis / Zwischenzeugnis), checking structure, completeness, hidden negative formulations, and overall effectiveness. Offered in two tiers: Zeugnis-Check at CHF 89 (10-minute phone consultation) and Zeugnis-Check plus at CHF 159 (written improvement suggestions plus phone consultation). Intended for Swiss employees reviewing a certificate.
• Lohn-Check Salary analysis service reviewing whether the customer's compensation is appropriate, covering individual situation, market trends, fringe benefits, and negotiation tips. Offered in two tiers: Lohn-Check at CHF 52 (written feedback) and Lohn-Check plus at CHF 84 (phone consultation). Intended for Swiss employees who want to benchmark pay and prepare for salary negotiations.
• Karriere-Check Career counseling via video consultation or online career tests, covering career development planning, application strategy, job search support, and potential analysis. Offered as Kurz-Beratung at CHF 39 (phone consultation), Karriere-Check at CHF 129 (45-minute personal video consultation), and Karrieretests at CHF 275 (two online tests with 60-minute video consultation). Intended for Swiss job seekers and career changers.
• Arbeitsrechtsberatung Labor law consultation covering employment contracts, terminations, settlement agreements, illness, overtime, vacation, bonuses, salary, unemployment insurance, social insurance, and certificates. Offered in two tiers: Rechtsberatung at CHF 49 (15-minute phone consultation) and Rechtsberatung plus at CHF 89 (30-minute phone consultation including document review). Delivered by qualified Jurist:innen. Intended for Swiss employees with employment-law questions.

Quantifiable outcome

• 48-hour turnaround on all advisory services (Monday to Friday)
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Kaufmännischer Verband Zürich (Commercial Association Zurich)coreOthersJobLex is a brand and initiative of the Kaufmännischer Verband Zürich, headquartered at Pelikanstrasse 18, 8021 Zürich. The parent organization provides institutional backing, professional network, and credibility. JobLex is described as 'eine Initiative des Kaufmännischen Verbands Zürich' in the impressum. The AGB explicitly state that JobLex is a brand of the Kaufmännischer Verband Zürich.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• TopResume: TopResume is a CV/resume review and writing service that pairs customers with professional writers on a transactional, self-serve basis. It is the closest functional analogue to JobLex's CV-Check and LinkedIn-Check offerings, differing mainly by operating in the U.S. market rather than Switzerland.
• The Muse: The Muse is a U.S.-based career development platform combining expert-authored content with paid coaching, resume, and interview-prep services. It mirrors JobLex's editorial-plus-transactional career advisory model and targets the same job-seeker and career-changer personas.

Emerging players

• CoachHub: CoachHub is a digital coaching marketplace that delivers individualized coaching sessions via video with a roster of vetted coaches. It overlaps with JobLex's Karriere-Check and interview-training offerings and increasingly targets DACH enterprise customers, making it an adjacent peer for the career-coaching component.

Regional players

• Stepstone: Stepstone is a major DACH job board with career-advice content and CV tools aimed at German-speaking job seekers. It targets the same content-discovery journey that funnels Swiss prospects into JobLex's transactional services.
• jobs.ch: jobs.ch is the leading Swiss job board and operates complementary career content, salary insights, and CV tools for the Swiss market. It competes for the same Swiss job-seeker attention that JobLex captures through content SEO and transactional career services.
• Xing: Xing is the leading DACH professional network and offers career news, coaching, and premium profile-review services. Its DACH focus and career-content monetization make it a regional peer to JobLex, particularly for the LinkedIn-Check equivalent use case.

Broad incumbents

• Robert Half (career resources): Robert Half is a global staffing firm that publishes extensive salary guides and offers career coaching to professionals. Its salary-benchmarking and career-coaching content for Swiss and European professionals is a broad-incumbent parallel to JobLex's Lohn-Check and Karriere-Check.
• Glassdoor: Glassdoor is a global employer-review and career-insights platform that provides salary data, company research, and interview-prep content. It competes with JobLex for Swiss job-seeker attention on salary benchmarking (Lohn-Check) and interview preparation (Job-Interview-Training).
• Indeed (career services): Indeed provides free resume review, salary benchmarking, and career-advice content at massive scale worldwide. It is the broad incumbent alternative to JobLex's paid CV-Check and Lohn-Check tiers and competes primarily on free access and brand reach.
• Hays (Hays Career Services): Hays is a global recruitment and workforce-solutions firm with career advisory, salary insights, and outplacement services for professionals. It is a broad incumbent peer to JobLex on the salary benchmarking and career-coaching side, though its enterprise focus differs from JobLex's D2C model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/joblex-ch
• Instagraminstagram.com/joblex.ch

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 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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