Hello, everybody. Welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie, where I teach you different
ways that you can make money online working from home. If you are one of my subscribers, you know
that a lot of my videos focus on teaching you how to be a freelancer on upwork.com. I'm a top
rated plus freelancers on Upwork and have earned over 80,000 US dollars since I started promoting
my services on Upwork. And when I started, I was a complete beginner. So the most important
thing when you're trying to look for a job on Upwork is to apply to the right kind of jobs.
If you just apply to any job that you see, you're going to waste all of your connects,
and you only get a certain amount to use for free each month. And also, it's really exhausting to
apply to dozens and dozens of jobs and never get hired. So in this video, I'm going to teach you
how to filter through and find the right jobs for you. So you have a higher chance of getting
hired. Of course, the most important thing is to have a great profile and portfolio. So if you want
to learn how to make a great profile, I will link you to my video in the description below.
But in this tutorial, I'm going to teach you how to search for the right kind of jobs,
and how to search for beginner friendly jobs as well when you're just getting started.
If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to my channel for more videos just like this one.
And let's get started. Okay, so here we are on upwork.com. So once you log into your Freelancer
account, you can see that Upwork has changed it a little bit on how you search for jobs.
So we have two different options. First of all, at the top, if you click on this arrow, make sure
that you have selected jobs. If you are looking to hire a freelancer, you can click talent, or you
can click projects to browse and buy projects. But I'm assuming that you are looking to get hired as
a freelancer. So make sure that jobs is selected. Now you can either search for jobs up here, or on
the search bar right here. And if you scroll down, you'll see that based on your previous search
history, you can look at best matches for jobs you might like most recent, or any saved jobs that you
may have saved. Now let's say that you're just starting out as a freelancer and you do not know
what kind of jobs you want to apply to. Or if you can't get hired for the job in your field. Let's
say you're a virtual assistant, and you're not getting hired for any virtual assistant jobs,
I'm going to show you some tips on how you can get some feedback on your profile and how you can
search for jobs that are more likely to hire you. So first of all, let's just browse to see what
kinds of jobs are available, we can just click on the Search icon without typing anything in.
And this is going to bring us to the search system. As you can see here, there are almost
200,000 jobs available on Upwork. A lot of people have said to me, Well, can I really get hired
on Upwork when I don't live in the US, because there are a lot of jobs that are us only, well,
I do not live in the US. I'm a Canadian citizen. And I don't have access to any of the US
jobs unless someone sends me an interview. So this is 200,000 jobs that I am seeing as someone who's
not in the US. So if you do live in the US in the US, you will have access to even more jobs.
Okay, so you could start going down and scrolling through all of these jobs and
seeing what's available. But obviously, we want to narrow this down because there's 200,000 jobs.
So over here, you can filter by category. And there are all sorts of different categories
accounting and consulting, admin support, customer service, data science and analytics. So you could
go through and see all of the different categories available. So for me, for example, I work in the
design and creative industry. So I could go ahead and click on any of these voice, talent,
video and animation. Let's say I want to see all the jobs available in design and creative. I'm
going to click on All design and creative. So now that's narrowed it down to 36,000 jobs that are
available right now, over here on the side, you can sort by experience level. So let's say you are
a graphic designer, you have a lot of experience. When you're trying to establish a reputation on
Upwork. I don't recommend you saying right off the bat that you're an expert because you sort
of have to establish that you are an expert by having some feedback from clients on your profile.
So I recommend searching for entry level and intermediate jobs to start. And later on,
you can apply to the expert level jobs once you have a bit of experience on Upwork. So
the next filter we have his job type, you can search either by hourly jobs or fixed price.
Now I have a video on the difference between hourly and fixed price. Basically hourly you get
paid per hour and a fixed price means you get paid one cent fee for the entire job. Because
we're going to imagine we're just starting out we're trying to get our first job.
We're going to leave both of these blank because we want to see all the jobs available to us.
Next we have number of proposals. Now this is how many People are bidding on the job or
trying to get a job interview. So we don't want to apply for jobs that have too many proposals,
especially if we're just starting out. Because I am currently a top rated plus freelancer, I will
apply for jobs sometimes that are 20 to 50, or more proposals. But if you're just starting out,
you don't want to compete with people who have a lot of experience. So let's put less than five,
five to 10 and 10 to 15. Now next, under client info, we can look for any of our jobs by our
previous clients, or clients that are payment verified. So currently, with these filters,
we have 14,000 jobs that are available to us. But if we click on Payment verified, that is reduced
now to over 8000 jobs. Now you can apply to a job with a client who is not payment verified,
and have them verify their payment before you start working with them. However, I like to work
with payment verified clients or apply to jobs that are payment verified already. Because that
does show that the client is serious. They're not just browsing, they do want to hire someone, and
they've filled in all their payment information and they are ready to go. The next one is client
history. Now sometimes if you're starting out, and you want to be really careful with your connects,
and you don't want to waste your connects and spend them wisely, you might want to go with
clients that have already hired people. And that way, you know for sure that the client is familiar
with Upwork that they have experience hiring. However, I have also worked with clients that
have never hired anyone before and I have been their first voiceover artist or video editor
that they've worked with. And they have gone on to hire me again and again. So this is up to you,
maybe you want to work with a client who already has experience on Upwork. Or maybe you don't mind,
you can set a client location, I have worked with clients worldwide, so I just leave this blank.
And then we also have project length. So if you're looking for a more long term job, you can select
something like three to six months, more than six months. And also how many hours per week,
you want the job to be if you're looking for something more ongoing,
we're going to leave all of this blank because we want to see as many options as possible.
So now even with all those filters, we still have 8000 jobs available, so we're obviously
going to want to narrow it down even more. So what we can do is click on Advanced Search.
And this lets us search for certain keywords of the types of jobs that we're looking for. So let's
say I am looking for graphic design jobs, you can type in here, all of these words, or any of
these words, I'm going to type in graphic design under any of these words. And also thumbnails,
because I'm seeing a lot of these YouTube thumbnail jobs available. I do have a video on
how to create YouTube thumbnails as well if you're interested that you can see in the description
below. So now let's press Search. And what that will do is it will search for any jobs that have
graphic or design or thumbnails. So I want to narrow this down even more, I'm gonna just type
in thumbnails. So we can see if there's any jobs about creating YouTube thumbnails for people.
And you can see there's 145 jobs found. So this is a really popular skill, because there are so
many YouTube channels, and a lot of YouTubers don't want to create their own thumbnails.
And so once you find a job that you want to apply to, like, let's look at this one,
for example, you can see they want 100 thumbnails needed for their YouTube channel,
or this one thumbnails of YouTube they want, they're going to pay $12 for 30 thumbnails,
which of course, it's not a lot of money. But this would be the type of job you could do
to sort of get started and get client feedback. So let's say we like a few of these jobs, and we want
to save them to apply to later, we can click on this little heart icon and that will save this job
into our saved jobs as well. And so then the next time you open up Upwork, you can go here under
save jobs. And all the jobs that we we saved are now here, the ones that we clicked the hard on.
So let's say I wanted to apply to this job here, I can click on the title. And this will pop up
more information about the job. I do have an in depth tutorial on how to apply to job and how
to write a cover letter. But when you're applying to a job, I definitely recommend you apply to the
job as quickly as possible. I have seen jobs that I know I'm qualified for but they've been up for
about a week. They have over 20 or 50 proposals. And I know had they seen my portfolio earlier they
might have hired me, but I'm sure they've gone through so many different applications already.
So this person for example, they posted this job two hours ago. And if you scroll down here
you can see that this job was last viewed by the client one minute ago. So right now they
are looking at their proposals. So this would be a perfect time to send in your proposal.
Because this client is active, they're online, they're looking at the options available to them.
So when you want to apply to a job you Click submit a proposal. And you can propose with a
specialized profile if you have a special one for graphic design, for example, and then you put in
how much you're willing to bid for the job. So this one, for example, they had it set at $12.
So another tip I have for you, if you are trying to get your first job, do not over bid,
if someone is saying we want someone to do this job, for example, for $12,
don't say that you're going to do it for $20, meet them at $12, or even offer your services
a little bit less. Because obviously, if a person is trying to get the best deal, they might hire
a freelancer who is going to set in a lower bid. So if you're willing to do the same job for $10,
put in $10. Obviously, you don't want to undersell yourself. But when you're first starting out,
you will be doing jobs for less than what you normally charge. When I was first doing
voiceover jobs, I was often doing them for $20. And now I would charge much more than that.
You write how long the project will take you. And then you write out your cover letter and attach
any files or any proof or portfolio of your work so they can get an idea of the types of
YouTube thumbnails you've created in the past. For example, again, I have a tutorial on how to write
a proposal and how to write a cover letter, which I will link to in the description below. So again,
make sure that you are applying to jobs as quickly as possible to get a better chance of being hired.
Now, if you want to save this search to look for again, you can click here on Save Search. So let's
type in entry level, YouTube thumbnails. That's my search, I'm going to click Save.
And now the next time we log on Upwork, right here, you can just click on the search that you've
saved. So let's say you're searching for different types of jobs, you don't have to go through and
put all those filters, you could just click entry level YouTube thumbnails, and all of the filters
that we had previously set, they will be here for us. And you can see all the different jobs
or new jobs that are available that match all of the criteria we specified. So let's say that you
cannot get a job on Upwork. In your field, you just can't get a job on Upwork,
you don't know what to do. You know, you need to get feedback in order for people to hire you.
But you can't get any jobs. Well, this is when I recommend you branching out of your field
and trying to get into any sort of job. Doesn't matter what job it is. If you can start building a
reputation on Upwork and start getting feedback, people are more likely to hire you if you have
been hired successfully by someone else, even if it is in a different job field. So I do voiceovers
on Upwork and also video editing. But when I first was starting out on Upwork, I did some writing
jobs, I did some proofreading jobs, and I started getting five star feedback. And when people see
that you are a five star rated freelancer, they're more likely to hire you. So what you can do
is when you're searching for a job, let's just click the search icon again without any filters.
And of these 200,000 jobs found, what we can do is click on Advanced Search.
And under any of these words, we're going to type in beginners and beginner.
And what that will do is going to search for any jobs that have beginners or beginner.
So we have 493 jobs found let's click on entry level to reduce it now to 98 jobs.
And every day I recommend you going on to Upwork and searching for things like beginners, beginners
welcome new freelancers. And if you search for keywords like this, you'll find different clients
that are willing to hire pretty much anyone, they just want to pay the minimum amount of
money possible in order to get the work done. So if you take on some simple jobs like that, even if
they are jobs that are outside of your field, for example, proofreading, translation, writing, or
simple video editing jobs, anything that you think you can do, if you see a job that you think you
can do, just apply to the job and send in a sample of your work. I often see a lot of different jobs
like this one here, App Store reviews, this person is willing to pay just for reviews of their app,
or maybe a video testimonial, simple jobs like this that you can do. And you don't have to have
any skill or experience. You might have to do these jobs for a low amount of money. But
the most important thing is to be building your portfolio and to get feedback on your portfolio.
Okay, everyone. So that is it for my tutorial on how to search for jobs on Upwork. Again, I just
encourage you to be persistent. Keep applying for jobs, follow all the steps in my videos on how to
apply for jobs, and how to write a cover letter. And just make sure you fill out your portfolio.
The most important thing is to be consistent applied to the right kind of jobs and apply as
fast as you can. It took me a while to get my first job and then after my first job I got my
second and third and it just kept growing and growing and growing. And as you can see here,
I've now done over 227 jobs and I'm ongoing working with many of my different clients. Thank
you guys once again for watching and if you have any other questions about Upwork just leave me
a comment in the comment section below thank you guys once again and I'll see you in my next video.