Free-Work review: freelance IT missions, most of them in France
Freelance project board
Free-Work is a board for IT professionals with freelance missions and permanent jobs. Most missions are in France and in French, posted by IT service companies and agencies. An English section lists contract jobs in the UK.
Who Free-Work is for
Free-Work suits IT freelancers who speak French and can work in France, on site or hybrid. Missions usually run for months at a day rate. The English section with UK contracts is much smaller than the French one.
What Free-Work offers
- Mission search by keyword, place, rate, remote work and experience.
- Job alerts for a search.
- CV library: recruiters search your CV and contact you.
- A forum, news and guides on freelancing in IT.
- Salary benchmarks and income calculators.
Who pays for what
- Freelancers
- Nothing. By its own account Free-Work takes no commission on your mission
- Clients and agencies
- Pay for a plan on Turnover-IT, the recruiter side of Free-Work, at a fixed price that does not depend on how many people they hire
What speaks for Free-Work
- Free, with no commission on your mission.
- Many missions, with duration, start and remote share in the listing. Some show the day rate.
- A forum with many threads on running a freelance business in France.
What speaks against Free-Work
- Most missions require French and work in France.
- Most missions come through IT service companies and agencies, not straight from the client.
- The English section has only a small number of UK contracts.
- The freelance filter still shows some permanent jobs.
How to apply
Applying needs a free account. Open the mission and use its apply button, and the recruiter sees your application with your CV. Your CV also goes into the CV library that recruiters search, and you can change or delete it at any time.
Where the listings come from
Recruiters post their missions through Turnover-IT, and Free-Work shows them. Most come from IT service companies and recruitment agencies, some from other freelance platforms. The end client is often only described in general terms. Recruiters can feed their listings in from their own applicant tracking systems, so the same mission may also be on their own site or on other boards.
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