Free to sign-up to be visible to users and to contact them.

Sign up to Be Visible: List Expertise or Post Jobs, Contact People

Here's what our quick signup allows you to do:

2 quick and easy steps. A couple of short questions, mostly checking boxes, generates:

step 1 - your account set-up and profile, and

step 2 - your expertise listing(s) or job posting(s).

Note that you are not visible to other users until you complete step 2.

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Signing up is straight forward.

In case you'd like optional detailed instructions:

Step 1: Sign up to create your private account and public profile

Go to the relevant sign-up page: this for age 45+ expertise and this for businesses
This sets up your private account, your public profile (1st screen shot below), and personal dashboard (2nd screenshot)
Confirm your account set-up by clicking on the link in the email we send you

Accessing Your Account: #1 in the screenshot below

After you sign in, your name will be in the upper right hand corner of all our webpages
Hover your mouse over your name to see a drop down box of choices
Choose "Dashboard"

Using Your Personal, Private Dashboard: See the numbered features in the screenshot below

#2 - Inbox: exchange messages with other users; red circle indicates you received messages

#3 - Save your "favourites", i.e. jobs or expertise you want to shortlist

#4 - Add & track your expertise listings or if a business, your job postings ("listing" is used in both cases here)

#5 - Track your work and income if age 45+ expertise; if a business, use the "My orders / View all my orders" feature

#6 - View / edit your account; add your photo or if a business your company logo; enter your banking information if age 45+ expertise, so that we can process payments into your account (through our payments processor Stripe); you can enter your bank account details later, but note you will not be able to take on any jobs until it is added.

NOTES:

Businesses do not need to enter bank account information - you will pay by credit card when you commission work by age 45+ expertise (or let us know if you prefer to use an e-transfer).
We do not see nor have access to any user's financial information - that is all entered directly into Stripe's system.

Step 2 - Create your expertise listing or job posting to be visible to other users

Use dashboard feature "Add a new listing", (purple button), as in feature #4 in the dashboard example above
Choose your relevant category among the 9 options found under "Age 45+ Expertise - All" or for businesses "Business Posted Jobs - All"
Screenshot below shows what an expertise listing looks like; a business job posting looks essentially the same
We review and approve all listings and postings before they go live, which could take up to 24 hours; we may contact you for validation

Create Additional Expertise Listings or Job Postings

Add more expertise listings to cover all of your skillset, in the same or different categories
Add more job postings to cover all your requirements, in the same or different categories
Screenshot below shows how you can easily track your listings or postings

When you find a match, Age 45+ Expertise to Business, here's how to complete the transaction, the business commissioning the work and payment details:

Completing a Transaction

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Sign up to Be Visible: List Expertise or Post Jobs, Contact People

Here's what our quick signup allows you to do:

2 quick and easy steps. A couple of short questions, mostly checking boxes, generates:

step 1 - your account set-up and profile, and

step 2 - your expertise listing(s) or job posting(s).

Note that you are not visible to other users until you complete step 2.

Signing up is straight forward.

In case you'd like optional detailed instructions:

Step 1: Sign up to create your private account and public profile

Go to the relevant sign-up page: this for age 45+ expertise and this for businesses

This sets up your private account, your public profile (1st screen shot below), and personal dashboard (2nd screenshot)

Confirm your account set-up by clicking on the link in the email we send you

Accessing Your Account: #1 in the screenshot below

After you sign in, your name will be in the upper right hand corner of all our webpages

Hover your mouse over your name to see a drop down box of choices

Choose "Dashboard"

Using Your Personal, Private Dashboard: See the numbered features in the screenshot below

#2 - Inbox: exchange messages with other users; red circle indicates you received messages

#3 - Save your "favourites", i.e. jobs or expertise you want to shortlist

#4 - Add & track your expertise listings or if a business, your job postings ("listing" is used in both cases here)

#5 - Track your work and income if age 45+ expertise; if a business, use the "My orders / View all my orders" feature

NOTES:

Businesses do not need to enter bank account information - you will pay by credit card when you commission work by age 45+ expertise (or let us know if you prefer to use an e-transfer).

We do not see nor have access to any user's financial information - that is all entered directly into Stripe's system.

Step 2 - Create your expertise listing or job posting to be visible to other users

Use dashboard feature "Add a new listing", (purple button), as in feature #4 in the dashboard example above

Choose your relevant category among the 9 options found under "Age 45+ Expertise - All" or for businesses "Business Posted Jobs - All"

Screenshot below shows what an expertise listing looks like; a business job posting looks essentially the same

We review and approve all listings and postings before they go live, which could take up to 24 hours; we may contact you for validation

Create Additional Expertise Listings or Job Postings

Add more expertise listings to cover all of your skillset, in the same or different categories

Add more job postings to cover all your requirements, in the same or different categories

Screenshot below shows how you can easily track your listings or postings

When you find a match, Age 45+ Expertise to Business, here's how to complete the transaction, the business commissioning the work and payment details: