Flat98 Talent
Where confidence creates opportunity.
Flat98 helps internationally mobile professionals understand where their experience creates value, and helps employers recognize the talent most relevant to their needs.
Why Flat98 Talent Exists
Professional mobility deserves better.
Hiring has become increasingly transactional. Endless listings, automated screening, and volume-first recruiting have made it harder for accomplished professionals and thoughtful organizations to find one another.
Flat98 Talent exists to restore trust to that process through careful curation, thoughtful guidance, and relationships built for the long term.
How We Think About Fit
Experience does not always translate neatly.
A title can obscure capability. A résumé can understate judgment. And the strongest professional fit is not always obvious from keywords alone.
Flat98 looks beyond conventional labels to understand what a professional has actually accomplished, what an organization genuinely needs, and where those two stories may meaningfully intersect.
Better professional decisions begin with understanding the value behind the title.
For Professionals
You should always know what happens next.
Relocating professionally can make even an accomplished career harder to translate into a new market. Flat98 Talent offers a more considered path forward: human review, thoughtful curation, and clear next steps.
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Tell us where you are.
Share your professional background, the experience you bring, and the kind of opportunity you are hoping to find.
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A person reviews your profile.
Flat98 Talent is human-led. Your experience is reviewed thoughtfully rather than simply added to another applicant database.
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We curate what deserves your attention.
We focus on opportunities with credible professional responsibility, meaningful growth, and genuine relevance to your experience.
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You understand what comes next.
When an opportunity looks meaningful, we provide context and guidance so you can decide whether it deserves your time.
Flat98 Talent is built around people, not applicant volume. Your professional experience will be considered by a person, and you will always know what happens next.
Founder Perspective
Built from experience on both sides of professional mobility.
Flat98 Talent was founded by Justin Underwood, whose career has spanned financial regulation, international policy, association leadership, and executive advisory work in the United States and Europe.
After relocating internationally, Justin saw how quickly accomplished professionals can become disconnected from the networks, context, and hiring systems that once made their experience easy for employers to understand.
Flat98 Talent was created to build a more trusted path between professional experience and meaningful opportunity.
About Flat98 TalentThe principle
Trust should be earned through judgment, consistency, and the way people are treated.
That principle shapes how Flat98 Talent evaluates opportunities, works with employers, and supports professionals navigating a new market.
How Flat98 Works
A more considered way to connect.
We begin with a conversation, understand what matters, curate carefully, make meaningful introductions, and remain involved through the next step.
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Conversation
We begin by understanding the organization, the role, and what a successful relationship should look like.
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Understand
We look beyond the job description to the context, priorities, and professional judgment the opportunity requires.
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Curate
We focus on credible professionals and meaningful opportunities rather than volume.
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Introduce
When there is a strong reason to connect, we make thoughtful introductions with context on both sides.
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Support
We stay engaged through the next step so expectations remain clear and the relationship is handled thoughtfully.
The goal is not to create more activity. It is to create better professional decisions.