For Temporary, Contract, Part-Time and Casual Workers – The Work Availability Network
A mobile app for temporary, part-time, contract and casual workers to get more work by sharing their latest work availability with all their selected contacts at any agencies and business hirers.
Get more work by using the updatedge mobile app
Gets more work and remove the pain of updating multiple contacts with your latest availability.
Reduces emails, texts and calls from people wanting to know if and when you are available by adding them as contacts.
Is updatedge right for you?
It’s designed as an open system for anybody to use with any connection. For all temporary, part-time, casual and agency workers.
If you work as a supply teacher, hospitality staff, social care worker, bank nurse or driver updatedge is for you.
updatedge is for anybody who needs to let others know when they are available for work and to get more job offers from those contacts.
Why use updatedge?
Even with the best intention it is very difficult to keep all your contacts aware of your latest availability every time it changes. You may email or call but often you just don’t have the time.
updatedge means you can share your latest availability instantly with all the businesses and agencies you like working with. They can find you more work quicker knowing your accurate availability.
By doing this you get more work offers and spend less time replying to emails, texts and calls chasing your availability.
What does it cost me?
updatedge is a subcription service with a complimentary free mobile app for workers. Anybody can download and use the updatedge mobile app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
Importantly your contacts can see your availability via the complimentary portal as soon as you share with them, and can send you offers at any time too.
Lets step through the basics of the mobile app
Let’s get started
Just a few simple steps …
- After downloading the app to your mobile
- Click “EXPLORE”.
- 3 easy steps:
1) Add an event:
2) Add a contact
3) Create an account
1. Add an event
Add an event or events…
Tap to select a day or days (by dragging your finger) when you are available for work or unavailable.
Tap +NEW EVENT
The event details page loads.
Enter the title for the event.
Click DONE top right when finished adding details.
This title example shows “Three Days St. Mary’s Primary” – Working I’m unavailable, Mon 23rd to Wed 25 Oct 2017 All Day 08.00 to 17:00.
2. Add a contact
Add any agency and business contact you like working with…
Click the menu button (three horizontal lines top left to add and view contacts).
Add the email address of anybody you want to share your latest availability with and to get offers from.
Add as many contacts as you want, there are no restrictions.
Only contacts you add to your contacts list see when you are unavailable or available.
Your contacts can see your latest availability at anytime by using the portal or simply clicking the link in the email alert they are sent.
Any agencies or businesses can use the subscription based API to get your updates directly (if you added them as a contact) into their systems accurately without any data entry, so they know instantly when you are available saving you and them time and effort.
Once you’ve added a contact click the Red Share button top right to create your account and authenticate your details.
3. Create an account
Authenticate your details so we and your contacts know who you are…
You’ll be asked to enter your unique email address.
If you are new to updatedge you’ll be asked to sign up for a new account.
You can use your social media account which is nice and quick or create an updatedge specific account.
Update your latest availability
Share to let your selected contacts know when you are available or not…
Add your future availability days or when you are unavailable and click the red share icon when finished.
Your contacts don’t see any confidential details.
Your contacts only see when you are:
“Available Now” or
“Working I’m unavailable” or have
“Private Unavailable” commitments, such as holidays, or
“Private Unavailable but offers considered” events. That could be changed for the right offer.
Your contacts can see your latest availability at anytime using the free portal or following the links in each of the email alerts.
Get More Job Offers
Receive more offers from your contacts…
The larger your network of contacts you share with and the more often you share the more job offers you will get from your preferred hirers and agencies.
Sharing often gives your contacts confidence you are available.
Apply to offers & nominate your preferred agencies
When you apply for an offer you can add which agencies you like to work through or if you want to go direct.
When the offer is confirmed you are notified and the mutual agency is notified at the same time.
See What Users Are Saying
Supply teacher
updatedge saves me loads of time, I’m no longer getting endless text messages, emails and calls asking if I’m available.
Every time I get a request I add that person to my contacts list and they instantly get my latest availability.
I’m getting more supply teaching assignments from my agencies and directly from schools too.
4myschools education recruitment consultant
Dealing with hundreds of availability updates every week was part of my job and was very time consuming.
With updatedge we get availability updates instantly and accurately with hardly any chasing.
All the updates go directly into our systems automatically; so no more time spent keying changes manually.
We now have the advantage of the best availability information without any delay and our clients can also choose the best available supply teachers themselves.
Top Tip: Share Often To Get Most Benefit
Using updatedge first thing every day reassures your contacts about your availability, improves your reputation and gets you more job offers.
Last Updated
Every time you share your availability all your contacts can see when you last updated
Share Often
The more often you share the greater the level of accuracy you maintain and the greater the confidence your contacts have to offer you opportunities.
Confidence Score
When you’ve just shared, your availability confidence score is at 100%, and your contacts are more likely to send you offers. You keep you score high by regularly clicking the share icon even if nothing has changed.
Ready to give updatedge a try?
updatedge mobile app works on Apple and Android phones
For Apple it works on iPhone 4S and above with iOS Version 7 onward
For Android it works on Android 6.0 (released October 2015 (Marshmallow)) onward
The updatedge mobile application is available from the Apple iStore and Google play.
