What differentiates Starkflow from Upwork?
When it comes to hiring, companies either rely on their human resources manager or turn to various recruitment platforms for finding the right talent. The whole process is very tedious and more the time they spend, the longer it takes to fill the position. This results in loss of time, delay in project deadlines, and drop in productivity. This is where Starkflow steps in.
What is Upwork?
Upwork is a freelancing platform that allows freelancers to bid for available projects. Companies advertise for new projects when a new task is available, and freelancers bid on it to express interest.
What is Starkflow?
Starflow is fundamentally different from Upwork where we prioritize your business productivity more than anything else. For the same reason, we recruit dedicated, full-time candidates who work on one project rather than hiring freelancers who work on multiple projects.
Talent pool
Upwork
The talent pool is limited to those who are active on Upwork, and clients may or may or not find someone who’s super specialized in a niche like cryptocurrency.
Starkflow
We have a broader candidate pool since our hiring manager scouts for talent from all across the globe.
Hiring Process
Upwork merely provides a platform to connect companies with prospective candidates. Companies have to do their own due diligence of shortlisting, verifying, and finally approving someone for a task.
At Starkflow we follow strict vetting wherein every candidate goes through a multi-step verification process before they are matched and assigned to work on a live project. We also follow a concept of referral based hiring, where we recruit those who are referred by existing candidates.
Quality of Talent
On Upwork, the quality of talent is uncertain and varied as there are thousands of people bidding on the same project.
We hire talents from top companies like Google, Oracle, Microsoft, etc. We follow referral-based hiring and also perform additional checks and background verifications before getting someone on board.
Accountability
Upwork
Upwork as a platform offers little accountability in terms of project delivery and services offered by the freelancers they hire. The hiring can also be a hit or a miss depending on the talent.
Starkflow
We work as a liaison between the companies and the developers wherein we assign a project manager to take care of all the clients’ needs and projects until the final delivery.
Project deliverables
Upwork is majorly meant for those who are looking to get something done quickly in a short time span. Most of the projects are short-term projects that don’t last beyond one month.
Starkflow
We strongly believe that it is hard to build anything valuable in a short period of 1–2 months, so to ensure the quality of development we prefer long term contracts where no projects are built in a hurry.
Payroll & Payments
On Upwork, both the parties have to determine a convenient mode of payment, and there’s a risk of the candidates not finishing the job or clients defaulting on payments.
At Starkflow, we act as an escrow between the clients and the candidates, and our monthly subscription model makes things easier. We offer an easy monthly payroll system so you don’t have to send payments individually.
Tax & Compliance
Upwork
Clients have to hire an external accountant for filing paperwork & taxes.
Starkflow
We take care of all the tax, compliance & paperwork end to end.
Concluding remarks:
Hiring is complicated, and good talent is hard to find. We make it easy.
We take pride in positioning ourselves against giants like Upwork, Fiverr, and Freelancer.com who merely provides a platform for recruiting, and doesn’t solve the problem of actually recruiting. We fill the gap here by doing all the heavy lifting of searching for the right talent based on the project need, interviewing, hiring, and bringing them on board. We also go as far as to take care of the payroll, HR, and admin tasks so the clients can focus on what matters the most to them- their business.
If this sounds like something you’re looking for, then don’t forget to schedule an appointment today!
