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jobalino: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

jobalino is a web-based recruiting suite from jobalino AG for Swiss small and medium-sized businesses. It manages the hiring process in one place: publishing vacancies, handling applications, communicating with candidates and colleagues, and assigning tasks. Each job can have its own application form, and workflows, roles and templates can be adapted. Multiposting publishes vacancies on Swiss and German job platforms, and the system flags vacancies that must be reported to the Swiss RAV and offers a direct connection for it. An onboarding module is announced as coming soon.

jobalino AG is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland. According to its privacy notice, the servers are in Switzerland and jobalino acts as processor for the hiring company; its terms refer to the Swiss data protection act and the GDPR. Switzerland is not an EU member but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. The website names no parent company. Check which AI functions, such as CV parsing, are used.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CHVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Recruitment & ATS
Type
Product
Website
jobalino.ch ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to jobalino

The European alternatives to jobalino come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with jobalino

jobalino is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

jobalino hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

jobalino is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs jobalino together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to jobalino?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to jobalino include Adeptiq, Aequivalent and Altamira Recruiting. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to jobalino?

Our list of EU alternatives to jobalino is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is jobalino GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

jobalino is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes jobalino an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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