A University of Pennsylvania Wharton School MBA candidate has created an online marketplace for creative talent around the world. Neel Premkumar created CreativeHUB.com to connect freelance creatives with businesses online. The site, free of charge for users, launched last month.

This online marketplace for creative talent allows freelancers to be judged on their quality of work. Businesses can search for freelancers based on user rating, hourly rate, availability, geography, project experience and online portfolio.

Creative professionals are “ranked” by their experience and users can view the top 10 members of each region. A job board allows freelancers to search for jobs and receive updates on full time job listings in their creative field.

An “Ad Challenge” page allows businesses to post challenges and receive submissions from members of the creative community, any work that is selected for purchase or as a Top 10 entry gives the member a boost to their HUB rating. Ownership of submissions which are purchased are transferred to the business, all other submissions will be displayed in the Marketplace where the creative will be given another opportunity to sell it.

The site has about 500 members since its initial launch.

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Would you use this site as a freelancer? What other ways can freelancers meet businesses to market their work?