How to apply to iMerit

Who can join

• Be at least 18, able to enter contracts and legally allowed to do independent contractor work in your country. Scholars' worker terms say you work as an independent contractor of iMerit, not an employee, and that Scholars guarantees no work or minimum earnings.
• A supported country of work, meaning the country where you are legally permitted to work. Only supported countries can be selected; if yours is not available, Scholars cannot currently onboard you from it.
• Work in your own name: Scholars' tax page says you may only work on Scholars personally, not through your business.
• A mobile number that receives SMS. You must verify it before accepting a job offer, and a verified number can belong to only one Scholars account.
• A government-issued ID for identity verification (a picture or short video of your ID and of yourself). Scholars says it is technically optional, but virtually all projects require it.
• A desktop computer with a webcam and microphone for assessments: they cannot be taken on a phone or tablet, and proctored ones need camera and entire-screen sharing on, often with a single monitor and full screen.
• A bank account and tax details with your job's payment provider. You cannot accept an offer until its payment, tax and identity steps are complete, and each job uses either Trolley or Deel.
• For jobs that ask, a background check through a third-party screening provider, and a Work Authorization check that your connection comes from your country of work, with any VPN, proxy or private relay turned off.
• No AI in your work. iMerit's contract, quoted in its older Scholars knowledge base, forbids using AI tools such as ChatGPT to do its work, and iMerit removes people it catches using LLMs or plagiarizing.

Step by step

1. 1

   Create your account

   Open app.scholars.net and choose Continue with Google, or enter your email and click the link Scholars sends you; there is no password. Use a personal or long-term email you can reach reliably: temporary iMerit workspace addresses cannot be used to sign up or log in.

2. 2

   Fill in the onboarding form

   Upload your resume (Scholars fills in your profile from it), then enter your name, email, country of work and mobile number, your LinkedIn or portfolio, your languages with a level for listening, speaking, writing and reading (CEFR A1 to C2, or Native), your work experience and your education. You can skip the form, but Scholars says empty profiles are almost never selected.

3. 3

   Verify your identity

   At the end of the form, choose Continue to verification and take a picture or short video of your ID and of yourself; it takes a few minutes on a smartphone. Allow up to two days for the status to update, and if it fails or expires you can retry up to three times.

4. 4

   Finish your profile

   Under Profile, add your availability (Scholars assumes you are never available until you set it), up to 10 skills and at least one language, and verify your phone with the six-digit SMS code. Project managers, select teams and select clients read this profile when they choose people for a project.

5. 5

   Find a job open to you

   Go to Jobs in the left sidebar. Jobs depend on your location, so it is normal to see "No opportunities are available right now"; check back later. Some jobs show a rate range, others keep it hidden until the offer, which shows your actual rate.

6. 6

   Pass the job's assessments

   Most jobs list one or more assessments you must pass before Apply now becomes clickable; hovering over a greyed-out button shows why. A score below the job's requirement keeps you out unless the assessment allows a retake.

7. 7

   Apply and wait

   Click Apply now. There is nothing more to do: Scholars emails you if you are selected, and its docs call it normal not to hear back for a while. You cannot withdraw an application, but it does not bind you; only an accepted offer and its signed documents do.

8. 8

   Read the offer

   An offer shows the job description, start and end dates, the hourly rate (and any separate rates for categories such as training or assessment time) and can show a payment schedule. It expires on the earlier of its proposed end date and 30 days after it was created, so answer before the date in the offer email.

9. 9

   Complete the compliance requirements, then accept

   Click each requirement on the right of the offer until it shows Completed: legal documents to read and sign (a legally binding signature), Work Authorization, a background check where the job needs one, and Trolley or Deel payout and tax setup. Some items need the team's approval before you can click Accept Offer.

10. 10

    Start the contract

    An accepted offer becomes a contract under Contracts, showing its dates, rate, payment type and payment cycle. Complete any Work Setups it lists; a project manager then contacts you about how to work on the project.

11. 11

    Log your hours and send a weekly timesheet

    On My Timesheet, start the timer for each session and stop it for breaks (it stops itself after eight hours), and stay within the job's weekly cap. Tracking alone does not pay: send the week's timesheet when you finish, a person reviews it, and you are paid weekly for the approved hours.

Tips to get accepted

• Set your availability. Scholars assumes you are never available until you add your earliest start, weekly commitment, timezone and working hours under Profile, Availability.
• Upload a resume and fill in every section. Scholars says empty profiles are almost never selected; if it cannot read your resume, try a PDF with selectable text.
• Verify your ID when the onboarding form offers it: Scholars says people without a verified identity are unlikely to be selected for projects.
• In Trolley, choose your bank account's local currency and check Estimated Fees before saving. A non-local currency such as US dollars can carry a fee on every payment; its example shows 23 US dollars for a Turkish bank account paid in US dollars.
• Complete Work Authorization from your usual home or office network with any VPN, proxy or private relay off: Scholars checks that your connection comes from your country of work and does not save it otherwise.
• Submit each timesheet only when your week is done (submitting stops you logging more for that job that week). After a contract ends you have seven days to submit; a terminated contract gets no such window.
• Never use ChatGPT or other AI to produce your work or paste project data into one: iMerit's contract forbids it, and it removes people it catches, with a chance to appeal.
• Apply from iMerit's own pages. Its careers page reads its contractor list, where each role links either to a scholars.net job or, for some roles, to a Google Form, and states its rate when it has one.
• Do not quit a job or buy equipment for a project before you have a signed Statement of Work: iMerit's older knowledge base says hours in a contract are often a maximum, not a promise, and its standard notice to cut hours or end a project is 7 days.