#workfu

This is WorkFu's version of Beat the Clock. As it's Friday, we're thinking in beer terms. It costs less than a Pint* to post an ad on WorkFu. 

When you created your profile we asked you to choose keywords that best represent your expertise, interest and skill-set. Those keywords contributed to your Fu Score as well as the Influence Graph which validates your talents. Profile complete, Influence Graph displayed, a few good reads added to your list and maybe, you shared your profile with a few friends, but have you looked at it lately?

Welcome to the new WorkFu. We asked for User comments and suggestions of how we could make WorkFu better and this is the result.

The biggest change and the one which excites us most, is our 100% focus on freelance web professionals. If you make your living as a freelancer in the exciting world of the interwebs, then we have just made it easier for you to find your next gig. And when you find that gig, you’ll receive 100% of your earnings.  WorkFu has no commission charges, just a simple flat fee to advertise an opportunity.

WorkFu is the fastest, cleanest and most streamlined way for the most talented freelancers to find work, and best tech companies to find talent.

It works like this:

Need a freelancer?

Post a job on WorkFu for an economical, one off advertising fee.

WorkFu uses it’s unique FuScore matching system to find the most relevant freelancers.

The freelance talent is immediately contacted and can indicate they are interested in one click.

Streamlined response management system makes talking easy.

Freelancer hired.

Simple.

WorkFu is still the “beautiful, super simple web platform” it has always promised to be. Now it is just better (...and just for freelancers.)

Today we begin the countdown to the new WorkFu. It's easy to get excited when the design looks this good

but as they say, "looks aren't everything." When WorkFu began, the goal was to create a beautiful, super simple web platform that recommends opportunities and talent to you based upon the networks you use everyday and to that goal we remain committed. 

The improved WorkFu is beautiful, super simple and will continue to deliver the most relevant opportunities to the best talent. Here are some of the changes:

Homepage: Beyond it's beautiful design, WorkFu equally appeals to both the freelancer and to the talent seekers. The message is clear, we are a site for freelance opportunity.

Your profile: Appears less cluttered and has some scope for personalisation.

Opportunities: Creating an opportunity is managed on a single page with live preview.

Response management:  We've made it less of a task and more of an opportunity to build your network.

Messaging: We'd like to get people talking so we have improved the messaging and added threaded response.

                                          "Whether you're looking for a freelance opportunity, a new career or in fact any type of work opportunity, WorkFu will present all available opportunities ordered according to their relevance to you"

Still in Beta, they analyze your networks and connections and recommend keywords that they think represent you (which can be modified). Then they can "rate an opportunity's relevance"for you based on a "FuScore (%)".

You can manage your 'Smart Profile', keywords, reading list, links & networks to build a beautifully presented, live description of yourself and your skill-set.

Your smart profile will adjust on-the-fly to highlight the skills & achievements that best match the opportunity.

This post on the Smarterer Blog also discusses this as on of "5 Startups Revolutionizing Your Job Search."

Looking for a new way to search for jobs or new talent?  Check out WorkFu today!

[via Thrillist]

Fu helps you navigate the roughly "400 jobs posted on Twitter every minute" via a web app that'll scour them, sort them by relevance, and even let you "apply with one click", hopefully for a high-paying position that involves about that same level of brain power and activity.

To get gainful, just punch in your Tweet-deets, and it'll scan your profile for networks, connections, links, etc., then spit out a bunch of keywords ("Technology", "Medicine", "Freelance"...) that you can add/subtract to best define what you're looking for, though if you're using this tool, "micro-blogging" can probably be assumed.