How To Get Your First Job On Upwork (2024) Tutorial For Beginners

Hello there, if you want to get your first job into Upwork, you are in the right place

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

you name it. So let's begin. Let's jump right into it. I'm going to just make this tutorial

this tips a little bit more, let's say, step by step. So after this video, the chances

to get your first job into Upwork are going to be really, really high. So first of all

if you don't have an account yet as a freelancer here into Upwork, I'm going to leave you a

link down below in the description so you can sign up totally for free. And once you

are in here, you want to locate the I am a freelancer looking for work and hitting to

apply as a freelancer. So whether you can choose to continue with your Apple account

choose Google account, or just do fill your information manually. For example, here you

have to put your first and last name. And then you have to import your email, choose

a strong passcode that can be helping you to have a great security into your account

and choose the country where you want to start working. So this is like, really important

not for getting jobs, but for the verification process. So there's a reason why you have

to choose exactly the country where you're currently living. After that, you understand

the terms of service, you don't want to get some emails if you want to. In my case, I

do not want to, I have to create my account real quick. And just wait a few seconds. So

there, now that we have our account already created, we just need to verify our email

which is really, really simple. And once you have your account already verified, I

know it's really frustrating, you want to start like right away. But we need to do a

few steps if you want to receive your really, really first gigs, your really first project

here into Offwork. And in order to that is just hitting to get started. And you want

to actually fill as much information about yourself as you can. So let's say that this

is new to me, I hit into I want to make money on the side, I want to find opportunities

myself. And then what I want to do is to I'm up to contract to hire opportunities, hitting

to next create my profile. So you can skip, you can skip a few steps if you want to. But

I can strongly suggest to you that if you really, really want to have your first gig

here, you have to fill all of that manually. If you already have an account into let's

say, for example, LinkedIn, you can import that. And it's gonna be really, really, let's

say much more faster. So in my case, what I want to do is actually delete this option

here into fill out manually, I'm just gonna be asking like the title of how do we want

to get introduced by the world. So let's say for example, that we are creative designer

And after that hit into next, actually your experience. So we want to add a few, let's

say some kind of project we've already worked to. So let's say if you want to create your

first title, let's say for example, here speaking about the designer, the signer of I'm going

to choose this option go into freelancer, the location, I'm going to hit around with

Mexico, and the month, let's say from April of 21 till January of the 22. And here in

description, let's need to say something else, I'd like a brief description of I was in charge

of creating thumbnails, and then I have to hit the education. If you don't have any occasion

you can import this option. But you want to fill as much information as you can. If you

have more than one language, it's really great at that. Share your skills, what are

you up to, let's say that you are a graphic designer, but you're also into filming, into

filmmaking into I don't know, maybe some audio production, maybe you like to draw. So input

everything you can everything you want to feel as much information as you can about

yourself. After that, speaking about the bio, you want to say that you you don't want to

say that you are you don't want to have this words into your bio because yes, actually

there might be a few people that can give you the opportunity to start because you're

quite new. But since the artwork, it's like a platform for freelancers, you are not the

only freelancer that they're going to be hired. So if people want to find someone to work

with, and they find this words, these keywords into your bio, the chances of getting hired

are really low. So you don't want to have this any of this words into bio, if you want

to say like you are new, try to use some other words, you don't want to use experience, new

amateur opportunities, because they are not going to be taking taking us so professional

So after you filled all your information is going to be looking I do have something

like this, I'm going to go into my profile that I just did just a few days ago. So you

have to see you can see like an example. As you can see, they have like a profile picture

it's really important to have a profile picture of yourself. With great resolution, the currency

the currency actually does not appear here. But it does look appear my location, this

is my local time. If you have a video introduction, I can strongly very, very, very high to input

a video introduction, it's just really easy, you just need to present yourself. If you

don't want to do that, you can always create something really quick with some text and

speech, right? So you if you're like shy or something, you can, you don't have to be talking

about yourself to camera, then I have here my languages, my education, here's my portfolio

these are a few skills of myself, my product catalog, and testimonials, those are appearing

with so many clients, past clients that you might be getting. So after work by work, you

can add that in here. On the certifications, you can add those manually. And in here have

some a few a few of employment history and other experience. So as you can see, I have

like a really basic account, it's really easy. I can tell you that this is really, really

basic, I think you can do so much better. But this is just an example of how it can

be looking. So as you can see, speaking about basic and easy, I do have like the basic content

of who am I, what I what I'm here for, what's my rate by hour, where I'm from, and how do

I look once that I have all of this already created, what I want to do is to go into find

work. So here in to find work, do you want to look for a keyword that can be so accurate

with what you are looking for. But first of all, you need to verify that your profile

completeness is with 100%. If it's not 100%, you can click in there. And they can be telling

you how you can improve your percentage, like for example, something into portfolio, some

certifications, a video introduction, other experience, and so on and on. Here we have

a lot of jobs found. So first of all, you need to choose the first option, then a numbers

of proposals, you want to choose only the first option. If I find something like for

example, like online work, I need to hit into submit a proposal. And this is the very last

part in order to get your first job here into off work. So what you want to do here

you want to actually read everything the job details. So you want to take for example

probably casino advertising on YouTube. So I do want to hit into my cover letter. Let's

say I am a highly, I do love online casinos, right? So what you want to do is that you

want to let the client know that they need you, you are actually the last piece of the

puzzle, they need to get a great, great work. If this is a free account, you have up to

100 connections, I'm pretty sure you might be having more. But this is the way you want

to look for jobs, you don't want to look for jobs without a filter, you want to enable

your filters and look for the less proposals as you can. And if you are looking for a job

with a specific niche, the chances of getting hired are really, really high. So those are

just like a few tips that I can give you guys. Hopefully this was very useful for you. Don't

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Good luck with that as a freelancer. Thank you so much for watching once again, and I'll

see you next time