About us
A hiring marketplace where both sides are checked.
TalentKonekt connects companies hiring remotely with Filipino professionals. We check the people on both sides of the deal, show what was checked, and stay out of the way of the work itself.
- Verified profilesChecked before they go live, and the check is shown.
- Real employersAccounts with a company behind them, not anonymous posts.
- Reviews from real workReputation comes from jobs that actually happened.
- Free on both sidesPost a role or build a profile at no cost. No placement fee.
Why we built it
We kept hearing the same complaint from both sides of the table, and it took a while to notice it was one complaint.
Employers told us
Finding reliable remote talent takes weeks, and most of those weeks go into working out which profiles are real. A résumé is a claim. A portfolio is a claim. A reference the candidate collected themselves is a claim about a claim.
Hiring stopped being judgement and became verification, done by hand, badly, by people who had other jobs.
Job seekers told us
The work exists, and so do the scams. Skilled Filipino professionals could not tell a real employer from a convincing post, and had no credible way to stand apart from a profile written last night.
Every marketplace treated both the same, so the honest candidate carried the cost of the dishonest one.
What we set out to fix
Six specific frictions, three on each side. Everything we have built answers one of them.
Costs an employer
- Unverified by default Crowded boards where every candidate profile is a claim nobody checked.
- Screening by hand Weeks of it, with no way to judge skill before the first call.
- Nowhere built for this No marketplace designed around Filipino remote professionals specifically.
Costs a job seeker
- Scam postings Time lost, and trust in remote work quietly eroded with it.
- No way to prove it Skill and reliability with nothing behind them an employer can check.
- No route to real employers Little access to verified companies actually hiring internationally.
Both complaints describe one gap. Neither side could prove anything.
Everything below is our answer to that sentence.
One marketplace, checked on both sides
The same requirement, written twice, from two directions.
What an employer gets
- Profiles verified before they go live.
- Identity and references checked, and the check shown.
- Skill visible before the first call.
What a job seeker gets
- One profile, verified once, carried everywhere.
- Employers who are real accounts, not anonymous posts.
- Reputation from work that actually happened.
Both lists are the same requirement written twice: let each side prove who they are, once, somewhere the other side can check.
That is the marketplace. Profiles are verified before they go live, employers are real accounts, reputation is carried by reviews of work that actually happened, and SmartMatch reads both sides to put them in front of each other. Nobody takes a cut for the introduction.
The people behind it
A marketplace that asks people to verify who they are should be willing to do it first. Two founders, named, and reachable.
Daniel Städeli
CEO and co-founder
Leads partnerships and product direction. Daniel spends his time with the employers using the marketplace, which is why the hiring side is shaped by what teams actually do rather than by what a job board usually ships.
Pil Rollano
CTO and co-founder
Builds and maintains the platform. Verification, SmartMatch and everything holding the two sides together are engineered here.
How we keep it honest
Five commitments. They are specific on purpose, because a promise you cannot check is just a tone of voice.
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Verification comes before visibility
A profile is checked before it goes live, and the profile shows what was checked rather than asking you to assume it.
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References are collected by us, not by the candidate
A referee answers through the platform, so what you read was not written by the person it is about.
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Employers are accounts, not anonymous posts
Every role on the board belongs to a company with an account behind it, and you can see who that is before you apply.
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Free on both sides, and no placement fee
Posting a role and building a profile cost nothing, and we do not take a percentage of anybody's pay when a hire happens.
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No invented numbers
Every figure we publish is counted from the platform. When a number is too small to mean anything we leave it out rather than dress it up.
Counted from the marketplace as this page loaded: 30 roles posted by employers. We are early, and we would rather say so than round anything up. The figures that are not here yet are still too small to be worth printing, and they will appear on their own.
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