Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my channel, Jennifer
Marie, where I teach you different ways that you can
make money online working from home. So I have many different
videos on how to use upwork.com, which is a
platform where you can apply to 1000s of different jobs.
Today, it's going to be a quick updated video of how you
can respond to an interview, invite or request Upwork has
recently changed their platform a little bit. So I'm
going to teach you how to respond to an interview, and
also write a little interview cover letter, which can help
you get different jobs. Before we get started. If you look
here, at my profile, you can see that I have 100% job
success rating. And I have earned over 80,000 US dollars
on Upwork since I started several years ago, so in order
to see any new invitations to interview, you can click here
on the notification bell, you can see that I have received
three different invitations to interview recently. So what
you can do to view an invitation is just click on
the notification here. And if you scroll down to the bottom,
you can see the personal message from the client. So
this guy has just sent me a generic, original message just
saying they'd like me to look at the job they've posted, and
to submit a proposal if I'm available and interested. Now,
when someone sends you an invitation to interview, you
do not use any connects to apply to the job. So you can
apply and it's free for you to apply. Now for this one, the
person has said that their budget is $15. For every
video, I'm not interested in this type of job because I'm
more experienced. So I'm just going to click here on decline
interview. And then you have the option to decline
invitation or decline and refer a freelancer, if you
know someone else who would be good for this job, I'm going
to put the budget is too low. And you can also send them a
little message if you want. Unfortunately, I charge more
per voice over based on my experience, thank you for the
interview, invite, and then click decline. So these are my
most recent invitations to interview. And I am interested
in applying to this most recent one, which was just
sent to me 24 minutes ago, and it's a Female voiceover for a
32nd radio ad. So I'm going to click on that. And here we can
see the job details, we can see that they want to pay
between $80 and $150 for an hour. These are the amount of
proposals between 10 to 15 people have applied for this
job. They're currently interviewing one person, so I
want to send my application to this job as quickly as
possible so that they will be more likely to hire me if
they're looking to hire someone immediately. So I'm
going to click here on view job posting to get more
information about the job. Now you can see here that this
says only freelancers located in the US may apply. And I am
located in Canada currently. But I can still apply to this
job because they sent me an invitation, I would not be
able to see this job if I was searching for jobs because
this is only for people based in the US. But because they've
sent me an invitation I can apply to this job. So they
have sent four different invites and three are
unanswered. And you can see that this job was last viewed
by the client three minutes ago. So I'm going to go ahead
and apply now. Under bid range, you can see the highest
bid was $250. And the lowest bid was $80. So if they're
looking to hire someone for the cheapest possible, they'll
probably go for the person with the lowest bid, I like to
be somewhere in the middle, I want to get a good amount of
money for the job because I have so much experience. But I
also don't want to scare them away with a really high bid.
If you scroll down here, you can see these are the other
jobs they have recently done. And they are more likely to
pay on the lower scale, they have $75 $75. So I probably
don't want to go too high and over $200, for example. So to
apply to this job, you have to go back to view invitation.
And then you're going to click here on Accept interview. So
you're going to go down and you can choose to apply with a
specialized profile, I'm just going to apply with my general
profile. And here you're going to put in the rate you'd like
to bid for the job. Now I normally like working on fixed
rate jobs, but I'm going to put in what my hourly rate
would be. So I'm going to just put in 150 an hour. And again,
there's a 20% Upwork service fee when you're starting out
with a client, so that means I would receive $120 an hour.
Now with cover letters, I like to keep it short and sweet. If
you know the name of the person who sent you the
interview request, I recommend putting their name. So here it
was Josh who sent me the interview invite so I want to
make sure to put his name. So I'm going to say hello Josh.
Thank you for the interview, invite, I am very interested
in producing the voice over for your for your radio spot,
I would charge a fixed rate of 150. US dollars, this would
include up works 20% service fee, sometimes I'd like to
include that. So they realize that Upwork does charge and
keep 20% of this. So I'm not pocketing $150, I would
provide two versions of the voice over recorded in
slightly different tones. So you have options to choose
from. This includes all recording, editing, and
producing of the radio spot, I can add background music at
additional cost if desired. I have attached samples of my
work below. So here, I'm going to link them to my commercial
demo reel and my corporate demo reel. And then I say
thank you once again for your invite. And I look forward to
hearing from you warm regards, Jennifer. If you are
responding to an invite for a different type of job, you can
either send them a link to whatever it is you want to
demonstrate of your skills or abilities, or you can upload a
project file. So let's say you're applying to be a video
editor, you might send them a sample of your work, I always
think it's great to add a link to something like YouTube or
Google Drive. And that way they don't have to download
something on their computer and take up space in order to
watch your demo reel, especially if they are viewing
their Upwork job posting from their phone and don't want to
download something onto their phone or device. So make sure
to read over your proposal and make sure that it is free of
any spelling or grammar errors. You can use a free
service like Grammarly to check your grammar and
punctuation. And then once you're done, click submit a
proposal. So it will say Here your proposal was submitted.
And then you can scroll down and see your proposed terms.
If you have made a mistake for whatever reason, you can click
here on change terms, and then adjust the hourly rate or
whatever else you need to adjust. Or you can click on
withdraw proposal. If you've decided you no longer want to
do this job or apply to this job, you can go back to the
job posting by clicking View job posting. And then here you
can see any more stats, again, how many people have applied
to the job. And another thing you can do to view all of your
proposals is go up here to find work and just hover your
mouse over that and scroll down to proposals and click on
that. And this directs you to my proposals and here under
active, you can scroll down and see that I have one active
proposal that I just sent four minutes ago. So to search for
more jobs, just click down here under search for jobs and
you can follow this exact same process when you are applying
to any sort of job and not just responding to an
interview invite. So this is just a quick video to show you
how you can respond to request to interview. If you have any
questions related to Upwork. Make sure to comment below
this video and I will do my best to help you out. Thanks
again for watching. Make sure to click on my playlist to
view all of my different tutorials on upwork.com and I
look forward to seeing you in my next tutorial.