How to register
Register as a 4FMV Seller
Businesses throughout Canada – Buyers – can select professionals in any industry – Sellers – based on their skills, price, availability and location.
When you register as a Seller, your details appear on all the 4FMV sites sites including other affiliate sites to which access may be granted.
Registration is required before you can apply or submit a bid to any opportunity. Whether you are interested in hourly contract work or fixed price bid projects, a full profile including résumé and skills plays an important part in the Buyer selection process.
When you register, you tell us whether you are a Seller or a Buyer. Using cookies, we tailor the information on the site depending on whether you are a Buyer or a Seller.
So, if you want to register as both a Buyer and a Seller, you will have to register twice.
Your details
User information
We need you to fill out your name and address information to complete registration.
Job Title/Role
While this field is optional, it is important to how you appear to Buyers. Your job title appears in the heading of your Seller profile.
Language Preference
Select either English or French. This will tell our customer service team which language you would prefer when we contact you regarding our services either by phone or email.
Your eligibility to work
All Sellers on 4FMV must be legally able to work in Canada and are self employed; working as either a Sole Proprietor or a Corporation (incorporated).
Verifying your identity
In addition, we are required to verify your identity.
Before you can accept a contract with 4FMV, you will need to tell us more about your business; whether you are GST/HST registered and/or QST registered. The other information requirements are different based on whether you are working as a Sole Proprietor or a Corporation. To find out more, please see the ID verification page.
Terms & conditions
All Sellers are required to agree to 4FMV Inc.’s Sellers’ terms and conditions. These include the undertaking that if you make any contact with a Buyer through the 4FMV sites, any subsequent work for that Buyer must be contracted and invoiced through 4FMV Inc.
Privacy protection
In order to comply with Privacy Protection legislation, we ask that all Sellers agree to be contacted by us for the purposes of running your account and maintaining the operation of the website. It is your choice whether or not you want to be contacted by us for other purposes. If you want to find out more, please refer to our privacy policy.
Your skills
Adding skills
To add skills to your profile, select the category of skills – ‘Administration support’ – for example, then select the check box next to the relevant skills. Folder icons indicate that there are further skills within that category. So within ‘Administration support’, you might select ‘Reception’ and then select ‘Telephony’ as a skill.
My skills aren’t there
If you have skills that do not appear in our list, please e-mail us and we will add them to our list as soon as possible.
Languages
Languages are included in all the skills categories as they may be relevant for jobs with any skill-set. You can click on ‘Languages’ within your main skill category to see the list of languages. You can then check the boxes against all your language skills.
If your languages do not appear in our list, please e-mail us and we will add them as soon as possible.
Your Résumé
Résumé sections
You can choose which sections to include in your résumé.
All résumés include the General & Employment History sections. You can choose whether or not to include Education and Professional Qualifications. The ‘Other’ section allows you to add your own section heading to your résumé.
You should not include any contact or identifying details in your résumé. This includes your name, telephone number, e-mail address, website, or company name.
Contact with Sellers is limited to those Buyers on the site who have signed our terms and conditions and have set up an assignment. We check Sellers’ details, and will remove any contact or identifying information from your résumé.
General
Your brief description can be seen by anyone searching the 4FMV sites. You can choose whether all users can view your résumé, or just registered Buyers.
Employment History
You can add a maximum of 10 previous employers or contracts. All your entries will be ordered by date when you save your résumé.
If you want to delete an entry or replace it with another one, click the delete button to remove it. You are then able to add another entry.
Professional Qualifications
This is an optional field.
Education
This is an optional field. You can add a maximum of 5 entries. All your entries will be ordered by date when you save your résumé.
If you want to delete an entry or replace it with another one, click the delete button to remove it. You are then able to add another entry.
Other Information
If you would like to add another category to your résumé, you can use this section. Please enter both the Heading and the Text.
You can access your résumé at any time from your 4FMV homepage, so you can amend it or update it at any time.
Your rate & availability
Setting your rate
When you set your hourly rate, you will see the rate to Buyers field adjusting accordingly.
Remember, if you negotiate a different rate with your Buyer, the rate they pay includes our management fee.
Availability
This is the date on which you are first available for a 4FMV contract.
Please keep this up to date, as Buyers are able to sort by your availability date, if they are looking for someone in a hurry.
Premier Membership
Upgrading to Premier Membership gives you an enhanced public profile, with a more prominent entry and twice as much space for your brief description.
Premier Members also get top position in all Buyer searches and are featured in the Contractor Showcase on our homepages.
