A Swiss CV is not the document you would send in the United States. A photo is normal here, so are your date of birth and nationality, and a work-permit line matters if you are not an EU or EFTA citizen. This page sets out what a Swiss recruiter expects to find and where. New CV Tool builds those fields from your career profile and exports a PDF you review before sending.
Most CV tools are built for the United States, where a photo, a date of birth and a nationality are treated as liabilities. Those fields get stripped out by default. In Switzerland the same document then reads as incomplete, and a recruiter has to guess at things a Swiss CV simply states. The convention is not better or worse. It is different, and you are applying here.
The structure is tabellarisch: reverse-chronological, factual, usually two pages. The header carries more personal detail than an international one would, and the document is one part of a Bewerbungsdossier rather than the whole application.
Example: an experienced digital marketing professional from outside the EU applies for a role in Zurich. Her permit status is the first thing a hiring manager checks and the easiest thing to miss. She puts it in the header beside her nationality rather than in a closing note. The question is now answered in five seconds instead of the file being set aside.
Nothing is added or removed silently. The photo, date of birth, nationality and permit line are your fields, and you can drop any of them for a market that does not expect them. The same career profile carries a Swiss version and an international one, so you are not maintaining two documents by hand.
A photo is normal in Switzerland and most applicants include one. It is not a legal requirement. If you are applying to an international employer with a global hiring policy, leaving it out is unremarkable. New CV Tool treats the photo as an optional field you switch on or off per document.
Both are conventional in Switzerland and neither counts against you the way it might elsewhere. Swiss employers are used to seeing them. If you would rather leave them off, that is your call and the document still reads normally. Both fields are optional in your profile.
In the header near your nationality, given as B, C or G. Hiring managers check permit status early, and a line they have to hunt for slows the application down. For EU and EFTA citizens the question is usually straightforward, and a short line still saves someone asking.
No. There is no downloadable Word or Google Docs file. New CV Tool holds your career history as a reusable profile, renders a CV from it and exports a PDF. You edit the content in the tool and choose the layout, rather than typing into a template someone else laid out.
A complete Bewerbungsdossier normally holds the CV, a Motivationsschreiben, your Arbeitszeugnisse and relevant Diplome. The tool produces the first two and keeps them consistent with each other. The certificates and diplomas are yours to attach; it does not store or manage them.
The profile, manual editing, PDF export and bring-your-own-key generation are free.