The Lebenslauf (CV) is the heart of your Swiss application dossier and the document a recruiter skims in seconds. A Swiss CV follows its own conventions that differ from the German ones: a photo is customary, details such as nationality and work permit belong in it, and language skills are often decisive. In this guide I show you, as the founder of Careerkit and a career coach in Zurich, how a CV is structured to Swiss standards, which sections belong in it, and what a template looks like that you can use right away.
