Upwork Introduces Talent Scout™
May 18 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Upwork offering helps businesses find highly
skilled, pre-vetted remote freelancers to get critical work
done
Upwork (Nasdaq: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace that
connects businesses with independent talent, today announced the
launch of Talent Scout™, a recruiting solution that connects
companies with pre-vetted expert talent selected from the Upwork
platform by specialized Upwork recruiters. Talent Scout represents
an additional way to access and engage talent and is part of
Upwork’s ongoing focus on offering a dynamic, one-stop online
talent solution serving customers' full spectrum of talent
needs.
Talent Scout is currently available for clients located in the
United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Israel. It will be
available to additional countries soon.
“The pandemic has changed the way the world works and there’s no
going back,” said Upwork Chief Product and Experience Officer Sam
Bright. “Companies have experienced the tremendous benefits of
working remotely and accessing a global pool of remote freelancers
on Upwork. In parallel, we’ve heard from companies that their
different business and service needs may necessitate different ways
of partnering with remote freelancers. This is why we have built a
complete ecosystem that empowers companies to work any way they
want on Upwork, most recently with the launch of Talent Scout. I’m
excited for remote freelancers and clients to experience this
additional opportunity to take their careers and businesses to the
next level.”
Talent Scout Helps Clients Drive Impact Faster
When companies need to quickly scale their teams, Talent Scout
is the answer. Talent Scout offers hiring managers hands-on
recruiting assistance without the expensive price tag of a
traditional staffing agency. Upwork’s specialized recruiters work
with clients to identify their hiring and project goals, and tap
into Upwork’s vast network of high-skilled freelancers to deliver a
shortlist of top-tier talent ready to start working immediately.
Talent are pre-vetted for hard and soft skills in the web, mobile,
and software development, design and creative, and sales and
marketing categories. With a personalized dashboard, clients are in
control; they can easily view curated profiles with the ability to
comment, select, or pass on scouted talent.
Talent Scout is the latest in a suite of Upwork services that
empowers clients to reimagine who does the work and how it gets
done. Hiring managers can start posting jobs and connect with
talent right away with Talent Marketplace™, choose projects off the
shelf with upfront pricing and get moving on mission-critical work
with Project Catalog™, or leverage the Enterprise Suite platform
for hiring, managing programs, and scaling talent that has been
cleared for legal compliance.
According to Matt Almeida, Founder and CEO of Screening
Intelligence and early customer of Talent Scout, “I leveraged
Talent Scout to quickly find the right highly-skilled back-end
developer for my company and I am thrilled with the results. In
fact, I’ve extended the contract multiple times which has helped us
scale according to our critical business needs and drive impact
even faster."
Talent Scout Matches the Most Highly Skilled Talent on Upwork
with Exclusive Roles
For Upwork’s most esteemed independent professionals, Talent
Scout offers flexibility, control, and a powerful new way to earn.
With Talent Scout, the most highly skilled professionals can spend
less time looking through jobs and more time doing the work they
love. Upwork’s recruiters invite scouted talent to exclusive high
value roles not publicly available with some of Upwork’s top
clients—from ambitious start-ups to recognizable brands. Talent can
easily start the submission process and be guided through skills
certification and vetting, and view interview requests via a
proposal dashboard.
“I have been an Upwork freelancer for over nine years and I’m
excited about the impact Talent Scout is already having on my
career,” says Anish Bhatia, a developer on Upwork. “My recruiter
took the time to get to know my strengths and as a result,
connected me with a few high-quality clients. Because the
opportunities come to me, I can spend less time looking through
jobs and more time actually doing the work I love.”
For more information on Talent Scout, visit
https://www.upwork.com/staffing/
About Upwork
Upwork is the world’s work marketplace that connects businesses
with independent talent. We serve everyone from one-person startups
to 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform
that enables companies and freelancers to work together in new ways
that unlock their potential. Our talent community earned over $2.3
billion on Upwork in 2020 across more than 10,000 skills, including
website & app development, creative & design, customer
support, finance & accounting, consulting, and operations.
Learn more at www.upwork.com and join us on LinkedIn, Twitter,
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