FOR TALENTS
How it works, for independent professionals
Here is how VirtualMasst works for professionals: create your profile, become visible to employers, explore relevant jobs and agree the work directly when there is a fit.
You set your professional rate, invoice the employer in your own name and use Stripe for the payment process.
- Build a professional profile around your expertise
- Choose which opportunities you want to pursue
- Agree your rate directly with the employer
ELIGIBILITY
Start as a freelancer or consultant
VirtualMasst is for independent professionals who provide defined expertise or professional services.
Freelancer
Join as a freelancer when your work centres on producing defined outputs such as software, design, writing, technical work or other specialist deliverables.
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Consultant
Join as a consultant when your work centres on analysis, specialist advice, recommendations or helping employers make and implement decisions.
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PROFILE
Create a professional profile employers can understand
Your VirtualMasst professional profile process starts with making your expertise, experience and availability clear.
Show work that demonstrates capability
Describe situations you worked on, the problem involved, what you did and the outcome.
Make your expertise specific
State the discipline, technologies, industries or professional areas where you have relevant depth.
Add supporting professional information
Keep your CV, portfolio and professional details current so employers can understand your background.
Show your availability
Indicate when you are available and whether your work setup can be remote, on site or hybrid.
Create your professional profile
OPPORTUNITIES
Find job opportunities that fit your work
Public jobs
Registered talents can explore jobs published in the public category.
- Read the complete job before applying
- Check the scope, timing and required expertise
Private invitations
An employer can invite selected talents to a private job.
- Review the work and commercial terms
- Check your availability
- Accept or decline the invitation
Found through your profile
Employers can browse talents by job category and professional title.
- Keep your expertise easy to understand
- Use a clear professional title
- Include relevant languages and experience
APPLYING
How the VirtualMasst application process works
Check the fit
Read the job and decide whether the required expertise, deliverables, timing and work setup fit your experience and availability.
Apply
Apply when you want to be considered. If an account upgrade is required for the application, the platform will prompt you.
First contact
The employer decides who to contact. If they contact you, discuss the job directly before agreeing to work together.
COLLABORATION AGREEMENT
Agree the work before you begin
You and the employer agree the job directly before work starts.
- The deliverables and expected outcome
- Your professional rate and time commitment
- The timeline
- Acceptance criteria
- Several projects for a larger job, if the employer chooses that structure
- How changes affect the scope, timing and rate
PAYMENT
Verification, pre-funding and payment
Payouts are issued fifteen calendar days after the employer releases payment for a completed project.
- Current charges are listed on Pricing.
- Connect Stripe and complete its identity, banking and compliance checks, including Know Your Customer (KYC). Your profile is reviewed and approved by the VirtualMasst team.
- The employer pays upfront by credit card or bank transfer through Stripe. Funds are held within the Stripe payment flow until release.
- Talents across Europe can use VirtualMasst's PEPPOL invoicing when required.
POSITIONING
Make your profile evidence of how you work
Your profile should help an employer understand what you can contribute. Use real professional examples that show decisions, constraints, responsibilities and outcomes.
Profiles that demonstrate capability
- Solving a difficult technical or business problem
- Improving an existing process or system
- Delivering an agreed outcome
- Explaining your responsibility within the work
- Showing how you handled practical constraints
Keep your expertise clear
Focus on the services, skills and experience that best represent the professional work you want to do next.
ACCEPTING THE OFFER
Respond when an employer makes an offer
Accepting an offer
Review the agreed scope, timeline, deliverables, project structure where relevant and commercial terms.
Accept when the work is clear, the terms fit your expectations and you are ready to begin once the agreed work is pre-funded.
Declining an offer
You can decline when the job does not fit your expertise, availability or professional direction.
The employer can then continue the conversation with other talents.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Prepare for the job
- Know your professional rate and availability
- Keep your Business number and professional details current
- Keep your profile, CV and portfolio updated
- Have your invoicing details ready
- Confirm the scope, timeline, deliverables and rate
- Confirm whether the work setup is remote, on site or hybrid
INDEPENDENCE
Keep your independence as work develops
Longer jobs can form part of your independent professional business while you continue to control how you present and provide your expertise.
Work towards agreed outcomes
Keep the deliverables, timeline and responsibilities clear. For a larger job, the employer can decide to split the work into several projects.
Use your professional working methods
Agree the access, tools, communication and collaboration requirements you need to provide the work.
Build on completed work
Use relevant completed work to strengthen your experience, profile, CV and future conversations with employers.
Develop ongoing professional relationships
A successful collaboration can lead to another job when the employer has further work and both sides want to continue.
Repeat jobs and ongoing relationships
YOUR NEXT STEP
Create your professional profile
Start with the work you do best, the experience that supports it and examples that show what you have delivered. Keep your availability clear so relevant employers can understand when and how you can work.
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YOUR NEXT STEP
Create your professional profile
Start with the work you do best, the experience that supports it and examples that show what you have delivered. Keep your availability clear so relevant employers can understand when and how you can work.
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