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Product1 October 20263 min read

Open to work, without being searchable by name

Switch on Open to work and get found for what's been signed about your work, never by your name.

A Ghanaian plumber in work clothes sitting on a low wall outside a house in an Accra neighbourhood, reading a message on his phone, toolbag at his feet.

Looking for work can feel like standing in a crowd with a sign over your head. Your current boss might see it. Strangers can find your phone number. And the people who do get in touch often want you to prove everything from scratch. Vaurse Hire works differently.

Switch on Open to work

In the Vaurse app, you switch on Open to work and choose what you want. You pick the kind of work: gigs, full time, part time or contract. You set your rate or your monthly pay, and it's shown on every result. You choose the areas you work in and the days you're free. If you take a job and want a break from requests, you can pause with one tap.

Being found is free, always. Nobody pays to be found, and a request asking a worker to pay for a job is blocked.

Found for what's signed, never searched by name

Nobody can look you up by name on Vaurse. Nobody at Vaurse can search for a person either. Employers find people by describing the work they need, and only people who switched on Open to work for that kind of work can be found.

What matches is what's been signed on your record by the people who know your work: a certificate from the school that trained you, a licence from the body that issued it, jobs signed by past employers, or jobs marked done by past clients. Vaurix, the AI inside Vaurse, lists the signed facts that matched and who signed them. It never gives anyone a score, a rank or a star rating.

A result shows only what you chose to share and the signed facts that matched. Your phone, email and home address stay hidden until you choose to share them. Your full name shows only after you accept a request. Age, religion, ethnicity, health and family are never shown, and nobody can search by them.

Interview requests, with the pay shown

When an employer wants to talk, they send a request to your app. It's a request for an hour of your time. Each one shows the role, the pay and the company name. No pay, no request. If the request comes from an agency, it has to say who the role is for.

You can accept, decline or suggest a time. Nothing about you is shared until you accept. Once you do, you choose which degrees, licences and work history they see, and they see only that. A request nobody answers ends by itself after 48 hours for gigs and 72 hours for jobs.

Say Kwame, a plumber, gets a request for a job in Osu tomorrow morning. He can see the work, where it is and what it pays before he decides anything. If he says yes, they chat in the app and agree the details. They pay each other directly, not through Vaurse. Afterwards, either side taps Job done, and when the other confirms, a signed record goes on both their records. That's how someone without certificates can build a record that strangers trust, one job at a time.

Your boss doesn't have to know

Your employer is never told that you're open to work. You can also hide from any named company, including the one you work for.

You decide who can reach you, too. You can turn off requests from people whose ID isn't checked, or from agencies. And you can report or block someone from any request or chat.

Vaurse Hire is starting in Accra, then city by city across Ghana. Open to work and interview requests are being built now; you can follow where they stand on our roadmap, and read more on our Vaurse Hire page.

Next step

Find work with proof