Frequently Asked Questions


Work Start is your ultimate job-hunting sidekick! We use a detailed questionnaire to understand your work preferences, skills, and goals. From there, we create your personalized Work Happiness Profile and match you with jobs that are a great fit for you. It's like having a personal career coach in your pocket!

For employers, Work Start is like having an HR superpower! You get access to a curated pool of job seekers who are already pre-matched to your job requirements. You can view resumes, schedule interviews, and even send out offers, all from one dashboard. It's efficient, effective, and designed to make your hiring process a breeze!


For employment coaches, Work Start is your ultimate toolkit! It streamlines client management by giving you an interactive Kanban board to track job seekers. You can add notes, view resumes, and send meeting invites all in one place. Plus, you get valuable insights through our Work Happiness profiles, helping you guide your clients to jobs they'll love. It's your one-stop solution for making your coaching more impactful!

For economic development organizations, Work Start serves as a powerful data and management hub. It allows you to see a comprehensive workforce profile, identifying skills gaps and opportunities for job creation within your community. You can also partner with employers to list job opportunities, facilitating a more effective talent pipeline. Think of it as your command center for catalyzing economic growth and enhancing workforce development

For universities, Work Start acts as a bridge between academia and the job market. It allows career services to streamline student job placements, track alumni success, and engage with potential employers in a more organized manner. With features like work profile creation and job match algorithms, universities can offer targeted career advice and opportunities, setting students up for success before they even graduate. It's your all-in-one solution for enhancing career services and student employability.

For colleges, Work Start is your go-to platform for elevating career readiness. It integrates seamlessly with your career services department, offering students a guided path to job placement. Through work profiles, job match algorithms, and employer engagement tools, colleges can provide hands-on support to students and recent graduates. The platform also allows for easy collaboration with local businesses and organizations, making it simpler to arrange internships, co-op programs, and job placements. It's a win-win for both students and employers.

For governments, Work Start serves as a comprehensive workforce development tool, helping to connect job seekers with suitable employment opportunities. The platform can be integrated into existing employment services to enhance effectiveness and reach. Through real-time data and analytics, it provides invaluable insights into labor market trends, enabling better policy decision-making. Plus, its security features ensure data privacy and compliance with governmental regulations. Essentially, it's an all-in-one solution for bolstering employment rates and meeting economic development goals.

To use Work Start, simply sign up for an account suitable for your organization type—whether you're a government body, employer, or education institution. Once logged in, you'll have access to a user-friendly dashboard that serves as your operational hub. Here you can manage job listings, view and assess potential candidates, and much more. The platform offers various features like a Kanban board for tracking job seekers, easy document uploading, and robust analytics. Video tutorials and customer support are also available to guide you through maximizing the platform's capabilities. It's as easy as sign-up, set-up, and start connecting!

Getting started with Work Start is simple! Follow these steps:

  1. Go to our website and click on "Sign Up."
  2. Choose the account type that best fits your organization.
  3. Complete the registration form and verify your email.
  4. Log in and set up your profile.
  5. Watch our quick start video or take a tour of the platform to familiarize yourself.
  6. Start adding job listings, clients, or whatever is applicable to your account type.
  7. Use our various features to manage, track, and connect effectively.

And you're good to go! If you need any help, our support team is always just a click away.


No, you don't need to install anything! Work Start is cloud-based, so you can access it from any device with an internet connection. Just log in through your web browser, and you're good to go.

Work Start offers a more personalized experience than Indeed, focusing on both job seekers and employers in the non-profit sector. While Indeed is primarily a job listing platform, Work Start provides comprehensive tools for employment coaching, client management, and data-driven insights to help you make informed decisions. It's an all-in-one solution designed to streamline the employment journey for everyone involved.

While Indeed is great for job listings and basic applicant tracking, Work Start goes beyond that by offering specialized features tailored for employers, employment coaches, nonprofits and other organizations involved in job placement and career services. Work Start provides a comprehensive set of tools for candidate assessment, program effectiveness scoring, and one-on-one coaching. You also get analytics and insights specifically designed to improve your organization's employment strategies. By using Work Start alongside Indeed, you can enhance your recruitment process, offer better coaching, and make data-driven decisions to benefit both job seekers and employers.

While free job boards can offer you a pool of applicants, they don't offer the customized features and in-depth analytics that Work Start does. Our platform is specifically designed to cater to the needs of non-profits, employment coaches, and other vocational support organizations. With Work Start, you're not just posting a job; you're gaining a suite of tools that help you manage candidates, assess their skills, and even measure the effectiveness of your employment programs. You'll also have access to features like one-on-one coaching tools, meeting invites, and customized Work Happiness Profiles for job seekers. It's a comprehensive solution that provides more than just a listing service—it offers a complete, targeted approach to hiring, employment and career services.

While Salesforce is a powerful CRM tool with a broad range of capabilities, Work Start is specialized for the unique needs of employers, non-profits, employment coaches, and vocational service providers. We focus solely on helping you manage job seekers and client relationships in the employment sector.


With features like Work Happiness Profiles, integrated meeting scheduling, and tailored analytics, Work Start offers functionalities that Salesforce doesn't provide out-of-the-box for your specific industry. Plus, you don't need to spend extra time and resources customizing Salesforce to fit your needs; Work Start comes ready to serve your organization effectively.

Efforts to Outcomes (ETO) is a comprehensive case management solution that excels at tracking outcomes and demonstrating the efficacy of your programs. However, Work Start is tailored explicitly for employment coaching, job placement, and vocational services. We offer features such as Work Happiness Profiles for job seekers, integrated meeting scheduling, and a specialized Kanban board to visualize and manage the job-seeking journey. Our platform is designed to complement ETO by filling in the gaps and providing additional, targeted capabilities to streamline your processes and improve the job-seeking experience for your clients. With Work Start, you get the specialized tools you need to go beyond just tracking efforts and outcomes — to actually facilitate them.