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Updates from the Yagankar team and community, product news, freelancing guides, and stories from people building work through the platform.

A shared shortlist — curated for one organisation, one role, with a note on why each candidate fits.
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Send us a TOR, get back a shortlist

Managed hiring now closes the loop: share your terms of reference, and our team returns a private link with a hand-vetted shortlist of verified candidates — often the same day.

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The employer dashboard — proposals to review, active engagements, your bench, and suggested talent for open roles.

A home page that knows what you should do next

Signing in now lands you on a dashboard built around your next action — proposals waiting for review, offers waiting for a response, engagements in flight, and talent suggested for your open roles.

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An application in negotiation — the employer has suggested a different amount and the platform tracks whose turn it is.

Counter-offers: negotiate the amount in the open

Employers can now respond to an application with a counter-offer, and talent accept or decline it with one tap — no side-channel haggling, and a written record both sides can rely on.

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A team profile — one entity to hire, with a consent-based roster of its members.

Teams: apply together, get hired together, get paid as one

Many projects need a small team, not one freelancer. Trusted collaborators can now band together under one team profile, apply to opportunities as a single entity, and build a shared, verified track record.

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The smart shortlist on an opportunity page, ranking applicants and the wider talent pool by fit.

A smarter shortlist: we match what you wrote, not just tags

Every opportunity now gets a ranked shortlist that reads your full description and each candidate's real history — work experience, portfolio, education — not just skill tags. And all of it runs privately, on our own servers.

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The public opportunities board — filter by type, category and location, no account required.

The opportunities board is now open - and built to be found

Anyone can browse opportunities without an account, every posting ships structured job data for Google, and each one gets its own social card so a shared link looks as good as the role it advertises.

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Yagankar.com was featured on BBC

Yagankar was featured on BBC!

Through YaganKar, our goal is to scale Afghan talent to the demands of the global market, so that we can resolve the employment problem Afghans face in Afghanistan and abroad.

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Add your services on Yagankar

I am excited to share this news with you. We just released a new feature on Yagankar. Our freelancers and job seekers can add their services on Yagankar and hopefully can channel more work traffic to their portfolios.

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Daily email summary

Previously, we were sending emails immediately as soon as an opportunity were posted. That was okay when we had a small user base and few opportunity to post. We are changing that.

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Now you can post regular jobs on YaganKar

Yagankar initially started to be a freelancing platform, it still is. Some of the companies that we worked with, had regular job postings that wanted to hire talent in their usual way and for long-term.

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What is new on YaganKar

We are planning to periodically share updates on new features and changes we implement on YaganKar. This will be the first of many posts that we will share.

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How Can I Work Well Independently?

We all encounter problems focusing during independent work. Working on your own for so long can get tiring! How can you stay focused, productive, and interested?

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