Let great opportunities find you
We match highly skilled professionals (like you!) with top clients, no fees attached.
Apply to Talent Scout Looking for Talent?
Leverage your skills to do deep, meaningful, and fruitful work with clients you trust.
Talent Scout opportunities are often longer-term engagements, with a typical duration of three months or more. These offer the chance to create solid relationships that can mean steady, enjoyable, and lucrative work over a period of time.
Because you don’t pay any service fees for Talent Scout work, you’ll keep everything you earn.
When you’re at the top of your game, you shouldn’t have to spend time finding work. Our recruiters help match you with small and midsize business clients who need your skills.
Our recruitment team starts by getting to know you—your strengths, skills, and goals and the work you are most passionate about. We will then bring opportunities that fit you, ones that are exclusively reserved for highly skilled talent like you.
Apply to Talent ScoutCreate a profile to tell us what you do (and what you’ve worked on before)
To make sure you qualify, you’ll take a skills assessment and find a time to talk with our recruiter
From there, you will start getting matched to the right opportunities
If you specialize in one of these areas, our recruiters (and clients) are looking for people with your skills
When you work with a Talent Scout recruiter, you can connect with some of the best remote workers from the global talent pool on Upwork—sifted, sorted, and sourced specifically for your project needs. These
We look at a variety of factors, including your experience, education, and existing skills. If you are already on Upwork, we will also review your Upwork reputation (such as your feedback and Job Success Score)
Both require a freelancer to go through a similar vetting process, including skill reviews and an interview. But with the Expert-Vetted Talent program, you’ll need to be invited and complete a more thorough interview process. If you have an Expert-Vetted badge, no need to apply as you are already being considered. To learn more about the Expert-Vetted talent program click here. Read More
No, if you are Expert-Vetted, you will automatically be accepted into Talent Scout.
Talent Scout is only available to those with an Upwork account. If you don't have an Upwork account, you can create one by applying through Talent Scout.
We look at a variety of factors, including your experience, education, and existing skills. If you are already on Upwork, we will also review your Upwork reputation (such as your feedback and Job Success Score).
Read moreIf your application was denied it likely means that your current skills are not a good match for the needs of the clients who use Talent Scout. Once you build your expertise we welcome you to reapply (please wait
Read moreWe look at applications every day. So we’ll get back to you soon if your skills and experience match what our clients tend to look for (or better yet, match a pending project need).
