How Uplers is Nurturing a Pool of Skilled Indian Talents for Global Digital Agencies – Know Our Platform Better

Global digital agencies face a multitude of challenges while hiring remotely. They face an imminent need to identify and hire skilled talents from cost-effective regions, with a faster hiring process. It is time to consider a dynamic hiring partner who goes above and beyond in finding the perfect professional and cultural fit.

Uplers is a matchmaking platform that facilitates the seamless hiring of top tech and digital talent from India for global digital agencies. The platform’s value lies in its comprehensive approach, which includes talent sourcing, screening, vetting, matchmaking, and deploying the most suitable candidates with global companies. It all begins with the crucial first step of sourcing the right talent and subsequently undergoing Uplers vetting process. 

When it comes to hiring remote digital talents from India, we realize our client’s crucial difficulty; they first say, ‘We hear great things about Indian talents, but the market is too crowded, and we don’t know where to start.’  As a part of remote talent solutions, we focus on developing a robust talent pipeline to ensure successful talent deployment and optimize the talent sourcing process. This approach maximizes the chances of finding and hiring the best-suited individuals for your company’s future growth.

How to hire digital talents in India: The Uplers Way 

In today’s competitive landscape, digital agencies have to ensure maximum productivity to stay ahead of the curve. To do so, they must hire and retain the best talents who align with the business goals. On the other hand, hiring a candidate who is a poor fit can adversely affect your company’s culture and result in wasted resources allocated to training employees with uncertain retention prospects.

Digital agencies have to overcome cut-throat competition, adapt to their limited budget, and streamline their hiring process to find the right talent. Traditional recruitment agencies will not be able to meet these demands, as they only share applications for a profile without conducting deep research on the talent. Hiring through outsourcing and recruitment setup relies on the self-attested merit assigned by the candidates themselves, leaving no guarantee of their suitability for the company. Whether it’s staff augmentation, outsourcing, or IT and professional services, these service providers are primarily concerned with placing individuals in digital agencies without truly understanding their needs or ensuring their long-term success.

In response to these challenges, a new model has emerged: the 5-step model (Sourcing-vetting-screening-matchmaking-postdeployment), offered as a platform when global companies hire from Uplers. Uplers ensures that the talent they provide is highly skilled and globally ready to seamlessly integrate into organizations, offering a holistic solution to talent acquisition challenges.

Uplers: Empowering Global Digital Agencies with Ready-to-Hire Indian Talents 

Digital agencies have to overcome several hurdles to find their best fit, such as the global shortage of talents, fluctuating salary standards, and long hiring cycles. To eliminate these challenges, Uplers has developed a rigorous process for finding talent from the Indian talent ecosystem. Our platform has an optimized Tracking System to assist our clients in securing the best A-player from our network. 

However, before we dive into the matchmaking process (i.e. from raising the hiring request to onboarding the right talent), let’s take a step back and understand how individuals are sourced into our network. 

Uplers has created a strong foundation for sourcing top talents, focusing on providing a comfortable and exciting experience for individuals who join our talent network. Several factors contribute to the appeal of Uplers as a preferred choice for talent acquisition. 

• Uplers takes pride in being accredited with a Great Place to Work certification for three consecutive years. This proud achievement is a result of prioritizing employee comfort, productivity and aligning with the company’s vision
• Our presence in social media, which includes LinkedIn, with over 1 million followers, has allowed us to build a vibrant social community. 
• Furthermore, our talent network already consists of 500,000+ skilled professionals across 100+ skill sets. This extensive network demonstrates the reach and appeal of Uplers.

The Uplers vetting process is meticulous and precise, guaranteeing that we find suitable talents when companies are in the market to hire. This extensive filtration process  of evaluation ensures that only the most competent individuals make it through the vetting process, maintaining the cream of the talent ecosystem in their network.

Here’s how our 5-step vetting process helps in hiring:

• Candidate assessment and filtering: We review thousands of talent applications monthly, carefully assessing each candidate’s professional background against our criteria.
• Cognitive abilities assessment: Candidates undergo a scientifically designed aptitude test to assess their problem-solving and reasoning abilities.
• Communication skills evaluation: Uplers utilizes AI-powered communication assessment tools like Versant to evaluate candidates’ reading, writing, pronunciation, clarity, fluency, and speed of speech. This assessment ensures that the candidate is confident in leading client interactions and communicating clearly with all stakeholders.
• Technical skills assessment: Uplers has developed a rigorous and advanced technical assessment to evaluate the capabilities of the talent pool. Uplers assessment test is powered by Tools like TestGorilla and Codility for web developers and HireMee for digital marketers- these assessments are role-based and designed to be highly stringent. They aim to identify the top 10% of talents who excel in their respective domains. The comprehensive and demanding tests ensure that only the most qualified candidates move forward.
• Culturally Fit: We prioritize cultural compatibility, ensuring that talents can adapt, understand, and align with the core values, vision, principles, and identity of the hiring company. This provides a seamless integration into the company’s culture.
• Available across all time zones: Our network consists of various talents, enabling us to provide candidates who can work in alignment with your local time zone. With a quick turnaround time, talents can join your team in as few as 5 days.
• Behavioral & Attitudinal: Behavioral and attitudinal aspects of talent are crucial for success in a role and organizational fit. They encompass communication, teamwork, adaptability, motivation, and a growth mindset. Evaluating these aspects helps identify candidates who exhibit positive behaviors and attitudes, contributing to productive work culture and long-term success within the organization.
• Remote Readiness:  1 in 5 digital agencies across the globe are operating remotely, which explains their motive to find remote-ready talents who are accustomed to the asynchronous workstyle. Such talents will seamlessly integrate with the workflow without any special training from the employers’ end.
• Organizational Cultural Compatibility: It involves evaluating whether a candidate’s values, beliefs, and work style align with the hiring organization’s culture. A good cultural fit in a digital agency will be able to keep up with the fast-paced environment, collaborate with departments, deliver high-quality work, and meet deadlines.

By implementing this thorough vetting process and the crucial Uplers assessment test, we ensure that only the best talents become part of our network, streamlining the hiring process for digital agencies. This significantly reduces the sourcing and screening efforts for these companies when they are looking to hire. Uplers has established a reliable formula, ensuring that we provide only the highest-quality resumes for shortlisting when we receive hiring requests.

The process when tech/digital companies raise a hiring request: How Uplers make the hiring process easy 

Step 1: Discovery Call

• The client expresses their hiring needs and a discovery call is promptly arranged for them to hire from Uplers.

Step 2: Requirement Confirmation

• During the Discovery call, Uplers better understands the client’s requirements, and once the job description (JD) and hiring request are confirmed, we ensure it comprehensively covers client requirements to find the right match.

Step 3: Resume Screening 

• Uplers utilizes its Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to shortlist resumes based on technical and attitudinal behavioral assessments. Scoring of best talents is done using  platforms like TestGorilla and Codility for web developers and HireMee for digital marketers.

Step 4: Resume Shortlisting

• Uplers Matcher finalizes the resumes to be sent to the client, guaranteeing that at least one of three talents will be selected. In the unlikely event that selected talent doesn’t meet expectations within the first month, Uplers offers a #30 Day Replacement, free of any charges. However, this situation rarely occurs. The entire process, from requirement raising to resume shortlisting, is completed within five days.

Step 5: Interview Preparation

• The client shortlists profiles for interviews, and Uplers assigns an Interview Preparation Expert who helps the talent prepare based on market standards and provides guidance on how to excel in interviews.

Step 6: Client Interviews and Selection

• The client conducts interviews and selects the talents they wish to hire based on their preferences and Uplers vetting assessment of the candidates.

Step 7: Hiring and Onboarding Assistance

• Uplers supports the client throughout the hiring process as well as during the  onboarding of talents, handling all the necessary formalities and ensuring end to end compliance measures are met. 
• A dedicated Account Manager (AM) is assigned to the client, along with a Talent Success Coordinator (TSC) for the hired talent, ensuring smooth communication and fostering a strong partnership, for both parties.

By following this step-by-step process, we aim to make the hiring journey efficient and hassle-free for digital agencies when hiring from Uplers.

Conclusion

Uplers’ talent sourcing are the stepping stones towards an elevated hiring experience. Our strong network of talent across varied skill sets reduces the digital agency’s heavy lifting and reliance on traditional hiring methods.

We stay a step ahead in sourcing the right talent by vetting them via a stringent process and assessing their suitability for the job role. Our post-induction service ensures the client and talents are fully satisfied with each other. The AMs and TSCs assigned to both parties assist in building a strong base for a long-standing partnership, eliminating the risks of attrition and bad hires.

As we match the right talent with the right global employer, we ensure responsiveness and responsibility to the needs of both parties.

This aligns with our mission to deliver a reliable, simple, and fast hiring experience when global companies hire from Uplers.