Hello, everybody and welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie VO, where I teach you different
ways that you can make money online working from home. In the past few months, I've released
several different tutorials about Upwork where you can apply to different jobs as a freelancer,
I have been providing my services as a freelancer on up work for over three years and I have made
over $70,000 USD since I started on Upwork A few years ago, there are thousands of different types
of jobs available on Upwork. So I really recommend creating a profile and seeing what's out there. If
you want a more in depth tutorial on how to get started signing up to Upwork. Just go to the link
in the description below to see my tutorial. But this video is going to be a complete overview of
Upwork showing you exactly what it looks like once you get accepted as a freelancer and how
to navigate the dashboard, how to search for jobs, how to apply for jobs, how to edit your profile,
how to set up billing and payments the messaging system, basically everything you need to know
about Upwork I'm going to cover briefly in this tutorial. If you want to see a complete
list of all my Upwork tutorials, just go to the description below for all the different
links to my videos. And before we get into the video, I just want to make it clear that I am
not affiliated with Upwork in any way I have not been sponsored to create this video, I'm
simply expressing my own personal experiences and opinions about upwork.com based on my experience
as a freelancer so let's get started. So once you've created your profile on Upwork, and you get
approved, you'll log into the platform and it will look like this. At the top you have a search bar,
you can click on the drop down arrow and search for talent if you want to hire a freelancer. Or
you can search for a project if you want to browse or buy a project. Or you can search for jobs if
you want to apply to jobs posted by clients. You can also search for jobs in this search bar here
and click Advanced Search if you want to search by any particular keywords or use any filters.
If you want to search for all jobs available, just click on the magnifying glass icon.
And you can see there are over 185,000 jobs available to apply for.
From here you can see we have a filter by category on the left.
And you can search by category, experience level, job type, and a number of proposals. number of
proposals means the amount of people who have applied to the job so far, you can also search
by client info, client history and budget. You can filter by selecting a few of these options,
or many of them. For example, let's say I type in writing under search to look for writing jobs.
You can see there's over 20,000 jobs available under writing. Now let's say I want to look for
an entry level job. If I'm a beginner just getting started, I can click on the entry filter. And the
jobs found will automatically update as you click different filters. So this helps you find exactly
the job type that you want to apply for the budget that you want the type of client and so on.
You can click Save search and saving this search will save the search with all the
filters that are currently applied. And this will save you time Next time you're looking for a job.
If we click on Upwork again, to go back to the homepage, you can find your saved search here by
clicking on what you just saved it as. Okay, so now we're back on the main page once you log in.
You can see on the left we have best matches which can help you find jobs that may match your skills,
or recommended. And you can click on any of these. You can also see your recent searches.
Also we have my categories. If you click on the pencil icon, you can edit the categories to select
up to 10 categories that are the main services you offer to clients. And here you can also
see a list of my talent clouds. a talent cloud network is an Upwork enterprise clients private
group of professional freelancers. So if you eventually get a job with an enterprise client,
you'll join their talent cloud and you can see any other new job within that
cloud network. Now if we look on the right of your feed, you can click here to view your profile.
And here you can change your profile visibility as well. You can also change your work availability.
And under proposals you can see any invitations you have to interview or an active candidacy
and active candidacy or active proposal are any proposals that you are discussing with a client.
You can also see how many available connects you have and connects are like the currency on
Upwork you spend connects to apply to jobs and you have a certain amount of connects each month. For
example, If I click on this job here, you can see I need this many connects to apply to this job.
Now let's go back to the navigator at the top. Beside the search bar,
you can hover your mouse over find work, and a few menu buttons will pop up.
The first is saved jobs. And here you can see any jobs you have saved that you may want to apply to.
And you can save jobs by clicking on these heart icons beside the job you want to save.
And you'll see this as you're searching for jobs. Now, this is great if you want to go through and
save all the jobs you like. And then only applied to your favourites of your saved jobs. And that
way you're spending your connects on the best jobs for you. So if I click on save jobs,
you'll see many different jobs that I saved from months ago that are no longer available. So to
remove them from this list, just click on the heart icon again. If we hover our mouse over find
work again. The next on the list is proposals. Click that and you can see any job offers you have
any invitations to interview, and any active proposals, and also any submitted proposals,
which are the jobs you have applied to which you haven't yet received a reply from.
You can click on archived to see any past or archived proposals and archived interviews. So
going back to the drop down menu, we can click on profile. And here you can see my profile.
I'm going to create a detailed tutorial later on about how to improve your profile because there's
also a few things I want to improve on mine as well. But here you can make any edits that you
want to your profile by clicking on any of the pencil icons. If we go back to find work and
scroll down to my stats. On this page, you can see all of your different stats, client satisfaction,
your job success score, your 12 month earnings, any badges that you have, you can see I've got the
top rated plus badge. You can see communication. This here shows my responsiveness score. So if
you've watched one of my previous videos, you know that it's good to respond to interview requests as
soon as possible. So people know that you will respond in under 24 hours. And you'll get more
job interviews that way, especially if someone has an urgent job that they want to discuss with you.
And you can see how often your profile has been viewed compared to other freelancers
in your category, how often you were hired or interviewed. And then at the bottom here, you can
see your profile completeness. So make sure that this is 100% complete, that is very important.
The next one is the Upwork readiness test, I recommend you take this. So check that you're
up to date on up work best practices and staying safe on up work by taking this 10
question test passing the up work readiness test is required to be
eligible for the rising talent program. So I recommend you do this test.
And you keep doing it until you pass because then you can be eligible for the rising talent program.
And this program, you'll get a little rising talent badge which will look good on your profile.
But you have to meet this criteria here in order to get the rising talent badge and passing the up
work readiness test is one of them. And the last one in this category is my project dashboard. Now
this one I have not done this is a new thing on Upwork. Basically having projects available means
that clients can find your profile and then buy a project from you rather than having to,
you know, go through the whole process of communicating with you first
and sending an offer. So this is something I have yet to explore. And I'm going to explore in a new
video coming soon. And I'm going to create a few different projects and put them on my profile.
So the next category is my jobs. So if we click on that, you can see here, your active contracts,
and the active milestones you have within a contract. So basically what a milestone is,
is, for example, I have been working with this client here for a couple years. So
rather than start a new contract, every time we work together, my client puts a different
milestone every time we have a new project. So I create a video for them once every two weeks.
So we just create a new milestone, rather than starting a whole new contract each time
awaiting milestones. So these are contracts that I have. I'm waiting for them to give me new jobs on.
But a lot of these I can end because I'm probably not going to have more work with some of these
clients. It was just a one off job. So here we have payment requests. And basically what
this means is this client hasn't yet released the money. There's $420 funded in escrow and they're
happy with the work but they didn't release the payment. So I clicked submit payment Request 13
days ago, and if the client doesn't do anything, then after 14 days, the money will automatically
be sent to me. So for whatever reason, this client hasn't released the payment, but I will get the
payment, because I did the job and they were happy with it. But that will be released to me tomorrow.
The next one under this category is all contracts. And here you can search by all the
different contracts you have ever had with your client, you can download, search by contract,
you can sort by any of these criteria as well. And then you can click on work diary.
And the work diary is if you are working with any different clients on an hourly rate, instead of
a fixed rate job, you would have this here, I generally like to work on fixed rate jobs. But
if you're doing something like virtual assistant or something like that, you might be working a
certain amount of hours every day. So you would have the desktop app installed,
and you would have the hours logged here under your work diary. Now let's click on reports.
to click on reports. Here you have the work in progress. So these are the fixed for me fixed
price milestones in progress. These are jobs I'm working on. Under in review. This is like
I showed you before, I'm waiting for this money to be released into my account, but it is in review.
As you can see here. This also includes any fixed price milestones you've submitted for review,
clients have 14 days to accept or ask for changes on submitted milestones. So this
money should be released to me tomorrow, because it's almost that 14 days pending.
So this represents the standard security hold period in which funds cannot be withdrawn.
So sometimes your some of your funds will go into pending before it becomes available.
And then here these are the funds available to withdraw. If you've set up automatic payments,
this will usually show a zero balance with the last payment indicated below. So you can see here
I have 319 37, that is ready to be withdrawn. But I have it set so that balance is greater than $100
will be automatically sent, you know at a certain time each week. And then you can
see my last payment as well. And I could change my payment settings here I'm going to talk about
payment and an easier way to get to the payment settings in a minute. So here you can check a
few other things, you can check your lifetime Billings by client, your connects history,
transaction history, and then a certificate of earnings to see how much money you have made.
The next one is the messaging system. So this is very important when you're working on Upwork.
It's best to communicate with your client within the Upwork messaging system. So on the side here
you have all the different clients you have worked with, or that you're talking about a proposal
with. And then here is the messaging system, it's quite simple, you can click here to attach any
file that you want to send to the client. Here is the help and support icon. So if you need any help
and support or you have a dispute, or you want to go to the community and forums, you can do that.
Here's the notification bell. So if you have any new notifications,
you can click on that and see, you know, all the most recent things that have been
going on in your Upwork dashboard. And then here, you can click on your little profile icon and you
can make your status online or invisible. And what I want to show you now is setting so this,
the quickest way to deal with all of your changing things and your account and your billing and
whatnot, is to click on your little profile icon and click Settings. And that will get you into
all your information, your account information. so here we can click on membership and connects.
Now there are two different plans you can have either the free plan or the freelancer plus plan.
So the basic plan which is free is you have 10 connects per month
that you can use to apply to jobs and then you can buy connects as you need them for 15 cents plus
tax each. I have the freelancer plus plan, which I liked, because it gives me a customized profile
URL. And then I also have ad connects per month. And I like that you can see competitor bids for
any job, but you can just keep the basic plan if you want until you you know are
making enough money that you can afford the plus plan. So setting your billing methods will allow
you to by Connect so you can click billing methods and click Add method and then choose
you know either credit card or PayPal to get a membership plan with Upwork or to buy connects.
So you can change your contact info if you want and let's click on getting paid.
So I have been asked how exactly do you get paid. So again, if you want to set up your payment
settings, you're going to click on your profile icon, go to Settings. And then at the side here,
you're going to click get paid. So my balance right now is 319 37. So I can click get paid now,
but I just have it scheduled weekly, so you can click Edit schedule. And every week,
if my balance is over $100, they will send it the money into my bank account. So if you scroll down
here, we have payment details. So here we have payment methods. So if you want to change your
payment method, you can click Add method. And you can either do direct to local bank,
or you can get paid via PayPal via Payoneer, a wire transfer or direct to US Bank.
So if you have a transferwise account, you can set up a transferwise account in almost any
currency I believe, and I set up a transferwise account. So I am getting
paid directly into my transferwise account, which has a setting for it to be like a US
Bank. So I recommend you know setting up transferwise and just having it
directly deposit into your transferwise account, and then you can connect that to your bank account
in whatever currency in whatever country you're in. Or you might prefer to do PayPal or Payoneer,
that's easy for you. It's just that they have a up work withdrawal fee for both of these. So here
you can also change your password and security and enable any verification options you want.
And at the bottom, you have notification settings. So if you want to get some notifications,
you know for any important activity on your mobile phone, on your desktop or on your email, you can
do that here. Okay, so this has been an overview of Upwork on how to use Upwork the most important
things you need to know to get started or once you have been approved to become a freelancer on
upwork.com. Remember, I will be releasing more tutorials on how to you know make your profile
look awesome how to create a project and all that stuff coming up soon, so make sure to subscribe
to my channel for more videos on Upwork and videos on how to make money online. If you have
any questions about Upwork or if there's anything you would like me to cover in a upcoming tutorial,
please let me know in the comments section of this video. Make sure to like this video.
It really does help me out. And thank you guys for watching. I'll see you in my next tutorial.