How To Get Your First Job On Upwork (2024) Tutorial For Beginners
Mar 6, 2024
How To Get Your First Job On Upwork (2024) Tutorial For Beginners
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Hello there, if you want to get your first job into Upwork, you are in the right place
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I'm going to be showing you just a few steps, a few tips that are going to be helping you to improve your account, your profile in order to get your first gig or project, just whatever
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you name it. So let's begin. Let's jump right into it. I'm going to just make this tutorial
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this tips a little bit more, let's say, step by step. So after this video, the chances
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to get your first job into Upwork are going to be really, really high. So first of all
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if you don't have an account yet as a freelancer here into Upwork, I'm going to leave you a
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link down below in the description so you can sign up totally for free. And once you
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are in here, you want to locate the I am a freelancer looking for work and hitting to
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apply as a freelancer. So whether you can choose to continue with your Apple account
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choose Google account, or just do fill your information manually. For example, here you
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have to put your first and last name. And then you have to import your email, choose
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a strong passcode that can be helping you to have a great security into your account
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and choose the country where you want to start working. So this is like, really important
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not for getting jobs, but for the verification process. So there's a reason why you have
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to choose exactly the country where you're currently living. After that, you understand
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the terms of service, you don't want to get some emails if you want to. In my case, I
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do not want to, I have to create my account real quick. And just wait a few seconds. So
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there, now that we have our account already created, we just need to verify our email
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which is really, really simple. And once you have your account already verified, I
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know it's really frustrating, you want to start like right away. But we need to do a
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few steps if you want to receive your really, really first gigs, your really first project
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here into Offwork. And in order to that is just hitting to get started. And you want
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to actually fill as much information about yourself as you can. So let's say that this
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is new to me, I hit into I want to make money on the side, I want to find opportunities
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myself. And then what I want to do is to I'm up to contract to hire opportunities, hitting
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to next create my profile. So you can skip, you can skip a few steps if you want to. But
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I can strongly suggest to you that if you really, really want to have your first gig
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here, you have to fill all of that manually. If you already have an account into let's
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say, for example, LinkedIn, you can import that. And it's gonna be really, really, let's
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say much more faster. So in my case, what I want to do is actually delete this option
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here into fill out manually, I'm just gonna be asking like the title of how do we want
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to get introduced by the world. So let's say for example, that we are creative designer
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And after that hit into next, actually your experience. So we want to add a few, let's
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say some kind of project we've already worked to. So let's say if you want to create your
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first title, let's say for example, here speaking about the designer, the signer of I'm going
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to choose this option go into freelancer, the location, I'm going to hit around with
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Mexico, and the month, let's say from April of 21 till January of the 22. And here in
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description, let's need to say something else, I'd like a brief description of I was in charge
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of creating thumbnails, and then I have to hit the education. If you don't have any occasion
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you can import this option. But you want to fill as much information as you can. If you
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have more than one language, it's really great at that. Share your skills, what are
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you up to, let's say that you are a graphic designer, but you're also into filming, into
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filmmaking into I don't know, maybe some audio production, maybe you like to draw. So input
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everything you can everything you want to feel as much information as you can about
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yourself. After that, speaking about the bio, you want to say that you you don't want to
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say that you are you don't want to have this words into your bio because yes, actually
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there might be a few people that can give you the opportunity to start because you're
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quite new. But since the artwork, it's like a platform for freelancers, you are not the
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only freelancer that they're going to be hired. So if people want to find someone to work
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with, and they find this words, these keywords into your bio, the chances of getting hired
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are really low. So you don't want to have this any of this words into bio, if you want
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to say like you are new, try to use some other words, you don't want to use experience, new
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amateur opportunities, because they are not going to be taking taking us so professional
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So after you filled all your information is going to be looking I do have something
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like this, I'm going to go into my profile that I just did just a few days ago. So you
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have to see you can see like an example. As you can see, they have like a profile picture
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it's really important to have a profile picture of yourself. With great resolution, the currency
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the currency actually does not appear here. But it does look appear my location, this
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is my local time. If you have a video introduction, I can strongly very, very, very high to input
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a video introduction, it's just really easy, you just need to present yourself. If you
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don't want to do that, you can always create something really quick with some text and
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speech, right? So you if you're like shy or something, you can, you don't have to be talking
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about yourself to camera, then I have here my languages, my education, here's my portfolio
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these are a few skills of myself, my product catalog, and testimonials, those are appearing
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with so many clients, past clients that you might be getting. So after work by work, you
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can add that in here. On the certifications, you can add those manually. And in here have
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some a few a few of employment history and other experience. So as you can see, I have
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like a really basic account, it's really easy. I can tell you that this is really, really
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basic, I think you can do so much better. But this is just an example of how it can
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be looking. So as you can see, speaking about basic and easy, I do have like the basic content
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of who am I, what I what I'm here for, what's my rate by hour, where I'm from, and how do
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I look once that I have all of this already created, what I want to do is to go into find
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work. So here in to find work, do you want to look for a keyword that can be so accurate
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with what you are looking for. But first of all, you need to verify that your profile
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completeness is with 100%. If it's not 100%, you can click in there. And they can be telling
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you how you can improve your percentage, like for example, something into portfolio, some
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certifications, a video introduction, other experience, and so on and on. Here we have
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a lot of jobs found. So first of all, you need to choose the first option, then a numbers
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of proposals, you want to choose only the first option. If I find something like for
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example, like online work, I need to hit into submit a proposal. And this is the very last
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part in order to get your first job here into off work. So what you want to do here
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you want to actually read everything the job details. So you want to take for example
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probably casino advertising on YouTube. So I do want to hit into my cover letter. Let's
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say I am a highly, I do love online casinos, right? So what you want to do is that you
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want to let the client know that they need you, you are actually the last piece of the
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puzzle, they need to get a great, great work. If this is a free account, you have up to
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100 connections, I'm pretty sure you might be having more. But this is the way you want
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to look for jobs, you don't want to look for jobs without a filter, you want to enable
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your filters and look for the less proposals as you can. And if you are looking for a job
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with a specific niche, the chances of getting hired are really, really high. So those are
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just like a few tips that I can give you guys. Hopefully this was very useful for you. Don't
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forget to like and subscribe to this channel if you want some other tips here into artwork
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Good luck with that as a freelancer. Thank you so much for watching once again, and I'll
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see you next time
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