How it works
Two sides. One simple idea.
People show what they can do. Businesses find them. Everything else we have taken out.
Simple,
on purpose.
For people
- 01
Create your profile
One profile. Who you are, what you can do, when you are free.
- 02
Show what you can do
List the skills you actually use. Add your experience and your languages.
- 03
Get discovered
Verified businesses find you and ask to get in touch. You choose who gets your details. No applications into a void.
For businesses
- 01
Get your business verified
Create a business account and upload your trade licence. We review it by hand before search opens.
- 02
Find people
Browse anonymous profiles by industry and where you are hiring. Each shows skills, work history, availability and salary expectation.
- 03
Ask to get in touch
Send a request explaining the role. They decide whether to share their details with you.
A new chapter
A brighter you
A new chapter
starts here.
People move forward. Businesses grow. Sometimes all it takes is finding the right connection.
Found Next exists for the teacher ready for a different classroom, the mechanic ready for a bigger workshop, and for every business that has been looking for them all along.
Our storyQuestions people actually ask.
- Is it free for people looking for work?
- Yes, and it always will be. You are not the product here — your profile is what makes the marketplace worth paying for, so charging you would make no sense.
- Do I have to be unemployed to join?
- No — and most people looking for their next job are already in one. That is why availability is on every profile: you can say you are working now and looking a month ahead.
- Who can see my profile?
- Once you publish it, verified businesses and nobody else. They see your role, skills, work history, availability and salary expectation — never your name, and never your contact details unless you choose to share them. You are told when a business asks to contact you, and you decide what, if anything, to share.
- How do you check businesses?
- Before a business can search for anyone, it sends us its registration document and the identity of the person running the account, and a person at Found Next reviews both. If a licence lapses, the check is reopened. This covers businesses on Found Next only, and it is a check that the business exists and someone is accountable for it, not an endorsement. If an offer reaches you somewhere else, check it before you pay or sign anything.
- What does it cost a business?
- Nothing until 31 December 2026. Businesses join free for the whole launch period, and we intend to introduce paid plans after it — we will tell you well before anything changes. There is no commission on a hire and no percentage of anyone's salary. Reaching a person will always depend on that person agreeing to it, never on what you have paid.
- Which industries is this for?
- All of them. Education, healthcare, retail, hospitality, technology, finance, construction, logistics, trades, the public sector and the rest — and “Other” if your work is not on the list. Found Next started in the bike trade because that is the trade we knew, but nothing in it was ever built for one industry.
- Is this a recruitment agency?
- No. There is nobody in the middle of your conversation. Found Next is the place you find each other — what happens next is between the two of you.
Ready for what's next?
Create your profile, or start finding the people your business needs.