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With SkillQuo, you can augment your income and keep what you earn; build your brand online to sustain your competitive edge, and work flexibly on you terms and time. Also, you will be connected to our Skillquo cares platform – a comprehensive source of help, resources, and community exclusively for our Skillquo consultants. For more information on benefits for you, visit How It Works

Visit www.skillquo.com and apply to join in three easy steps. After you complete your profile and submit, we will carefully review your credentials, and get back to you with a decision.

We target management consultants, marketing strategists, financial analysts, and other highly skilled professionals. We look for a strong professional and/or academic trajectory of achievement. We look for professional, completed linkedin profiles with recommendations. In some cases, we perform a thorough reference check (and even background checks for certain full-time positions if requested by the employers. Consultants are informed, and consent requested before performing these checks). Take a look at our current expert profiles, and you will get a great idea of the high caliber of individuals that are currently within our site.

Many of our SkillQuo Consultants are already employed, working for themselves, or recently separated from traditional consulting firms such as a Bain, McKinsey, Deloitte, etc. For your sake, you should ensure that your current company would have no issues – legal or otherwise – with your working at SkillQuo.

We have projects that are a few weeks in length to a few months, projects which take up as little as a few hours a week to projects that are 20+ hours a week. Market Research and Analysis. Marketing Plans Creation. Business Plan Writing. Pitch Deck/Raising Capital. Supply Chain and Operations. New Startup Strategy. Mergers. The list goes on!

Yes, we are proud to host a diverse group of clients and consultants across the globe.

We pride ourselves on being more than just a virtual platform. We are a community that engages our consultants and clients alike. Our community site ‘SkillQuo Cares’ hosts information on in-person and virtual engagements, helpful articles, and chat forums.

First of all, we would refrain from the use of word ‘bidding’ which means, lower bid wins. We truly believe that quality comes at a price, and it’s not the bid, but the value of the consultant’s experience that is critical to the success of the project (and in turn SkillQuo). We do not restrict consultants from putting estimates higher than the client budget, rather we highly recommend that you place your estimates based on your hourly rates and the expected project duration (hours required). We do have a minimum rate/hour requirement ($70/hr) and minimum project budget ($250 minimum).

When clients post a project on SkillQuo, with a detailed description, timeline, budget and desired consultant qualifications, SkillQuo consultants will be able to browse for active project postings and provide estimates on projects which are suited to their expertise and experience level. Also, we have a matching algorithm that connects and recommends consultants and clients.

This varies by client and their level of urgency. Our SkillQuo team is automatically flagged for prolonged open postings, and we will diligently aid our clients to either make a selection or close out their project after an appropriate period of time.

Yes, you will be notified either way – even if you are not selected for a project.

Our SkillQuo team is well equipped to help mediate any issues which may arise. However, we ask our consultants to diligently vet out their potential clients and projects in terms of expectations, delivery timing, and budget. We also encourage our consultants to communicate when there seems to be a change in scope mid-way of the projects, so that either the project scope stays within the original request OR budgets and timelines can be adjusted accordingly to accommodate new changes.

One of our key target segment is Boutique consulting firms, and we support them in staff augmentation and full-time hires. Whether you are a solo consultant or a consulting firm, we welcome you to the SkillQuo family – we do require an individual from your firm to signup as a representative, and complete their profile on SkillQuo (do mention about the size of your team and your areas of expertise, so we can assign the right projects to you).

The only way you can work outside of SkillQuo, is if the client hires you full time with a notification and 10% fee paid to SkillQuo. Otherwise, working outside the platform of SkillQuo violates our terms of use. Both the client and the consultant will be permanently removed from our site, should this happen.

When a client hires a consultant, SkillQuo immediately collects the entire fee and holds it in escrow. This protects the consultant, as it ensures that they will be paid upon completion of the project. Depending on what the client and the consultant agree, the consultant will either be paid in one lump sum upon completion or in increments depending on milestones completed for longer term projects. For this, SkillQuo offers a convenient milestone tracking feature. This fees of 20% is deducted from the payment made to the Consultant. For example, if the project payment is $1000, SkillQuo retains $200 and Consultant gets paid $800 at the successful completion of the project.

For our US-based consultants, you can get more details here, and for UK-based consultants, information is available here . For other countries, please contact your local tax office, or consult your accountant/ CPA-equivalent.