WorkFu + Find work opportunities, discover talent

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.

— WorkFu (@workfu)

"I'm writing to thank you as I've just been hired by a company after being part of their recruitment process through Work Fu. In the next few weeks I'm going to move to Dubai to hit the ground running.

Your system is awesome, it deserves much more attention from the media and public. I'm doing my part spreading the word to friends and colleagues around.

Keep up the good work!"

When CTO, Rik Heywood, acquired WorkFu he had big plans and promised WorkFu users  "a whole host of new ideas to make it even better than it already is". True to his word, today we launch the first of many additional features - the "Influence Graph". We'll let Rik explain...

I've been hard at work for the last couple of weeks working on a brand new feature called the "Influence Graph". If you've used WorkFu, you will have seen the slightly blurred out teaser for this feature for quite a while now, but the first step is now live. Why not go and check out my Influence Graph, so you can see what it's all about.

So what is the Influence Graph? We wanted to take the idea of WorkFu's unique Smart Profiles further and help talented individuals promote their skills. The idea was to use all your social networks and other data to give you a rating for each of the skills that you claim to have. With a traditional CV you can make bold claims about your skills and achievements, but there is nothing much to back up those claims. WorkFu is able to look for evidence of your skills and allocates points to each of them, based on that data. The more points you have for a given skill, the more experience and reputation within the industry you have on that subject.

The important thing is that you don't need to do anything to generate this score, other than be the best you can be in your core disciplines. WorkFu will do the rest, so you can say goodbye to trying to get people to endorse you, or click your like button or whatever. Just carry on being awesome at what you're good at, and WorkFu will recognise your strengths and proudly show it off in your Smart Profile.

Now I am a PHP developer who has been around a fair while. I've also started my fair share of new businesses and enjoy being a bit of an entrepreneur. When I look at my WorkFu Influence Graph, my top 10 skills include PHP5 (number 1), web development, MySQL, entrepreneur, founder and 'geek' (errr, glances to the side to see a crowd of Lego mini-figures sitting on top of my Sonos, shrug, fair enough, back to work). In fact, all the things I would want to be near the top are near the top, plus I get really good scores in the most important ones.

We're very pleased to say that WorkFu has been acquired, ensuring its continued growth and development going into 2013.

There will be more details in early January but for now ourselves and new CEO Rik Heywood would like to thank the community for their support and inspiration these past 12 months.

Merry Christmas,

Happy to join @tribalgroup to work on Mobile UX. Thanks to @workfu for letting me spot the opportunity and @jamesfenton for connecting me!

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