I got to meet some really great people and I'm a huge believer in the platform especially moving forward into the future giving you the flexibility to make your own schedule, control your payments and take advantage of all the amazing opportunities that exist on UpWork, and my goal is to be an example of that for you, to show you what is possible if you put the work in, what is possible pay-wise, being able to build your online brand, your online portfolio, the opportunities are endless if you're willing to take advantage of them and put the work in. So before we jump into the five tips to help you get your first job on UpWork as a freelancer, the first thing that you obviously need is a great profile. So if you don't have a great profile yet, you just started,
you haven't put the time into making it great, be sure to watch my last video which focuses on UpWork top rated tips and one big section of that video, I focus on profile, I go through my entire profile, explain what I did to create it and you really need to go through that first before watching this video. So if you haven't watched that yet, go ahead and click on the card at the top of the screen here, it's gonna link you to my last video so you can go through that, get your profile looking great and attractive before you jump into these steps. So now let's go ahead and dive into tip number one which is finding the right jobs using the advanced search. There are literally millions of jobs on UpWork so it's vital that you'refinding the right jobs, applying for the right jobs that fit your skill set,
your knowledge and what you can provide value with to clients. So what we're gonna look at now is an advanced search which I highly recommend that you use when finding jobs on Upwork. So when you're on TheFind Work tab of UpWork, click on the Advanced Search option which is right below the search For Jobs text box. This is gonna give you different options that you can fill in todo your advanced search. The one that I would recommend is where it says Any of These Words or it can be All These Wordsbut Any of These Words, I'm gonna enter in SQL which applies to specific jobs that I bidon and that I work on myself. So I'm gonna type in SQL,
you would enter in something for yourself. If you're in graphic design, enter in graphic design for instance. The type that in and then hit Search. So as you can see, now we'rein the Advanced Search, we have SQL typed in as the keyword that we're looking for and what we can do now is we can click on the filters button right here and this is gonna give us a lot of other options that we can include in our search. So these other options include job type, hourly or fixed. I wouldn't really limit that in your search initially when you're trying to get your first job, keep both of them in there 'cause you're gonna wanna see both types of jobs.
Then you have experience level which includes entry-level, intermediate, and expert. So the price, the hourly rate, the overall budget for the job usually correlates directly to the experience level so you can see entry-level has one dollar sign, intermediate has two dollar signs and expert has three dollar signs. We're not gonna limit that right now but I usually do currently because what I do is I limit all my searches to expert or intermediate, not usually mainly just expert because hourly rates for intermediate are gonna drop off below what I charge so usually an expert level. But to get your first job, we're gonna leave all of them selected so we can take a look at them. On Client History, we're gonna leave it as Any Client History because personally, I've had a lot of jobs where I was their first freelancer on UpWork and some of those have turned into big clients so I'm not gonna limit that. Client Info,
PaymentVerified is probably one that we want to select especially for your initial job because the new clients that aren't payment verified yet if you're bidding on their jobs, one thing you would have to do is before they actually hired you, you have to tell them you know, go ahead and make your account payment verified to make sure that they can actually pay you. So to prevent you from having to go through that process initially when you're trying to get your first job, we're gonna filter that out. Number of Proposals is definitely one that I would consider very important when you're trying to get your first job on UpWork as a freelancer.
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