Welcome to PJ's Q&A Session. Hello everybody welcome back to PJ Chen Design
Today's Q&A section, we have a questions about if I want to be a jewelry
freelance designer online, which website should I go to find jobs, and what kind
of portfolio should I prepare for my online freelance profile. Let's get
started. There are four websites I would like to show you today. The first one is
Fiverr.com, you can find all kind of work in the Fiverr. A lot of the writing, a lot of
anything, marketing, animation, and music, and everything. There a lot of graphic
design work though. For the 3D model and product design, we can going in and then
you can kind of looking at what other peoples do, if you want to go to the
fiverr, you need to set up your account to be the freelance there, and you can kind
of take a look on other people's work, and kind of give you an idea for that.
For me it doesn't have a lot of jewelry work, even it does but it's not too
many of them, but if you do a lot of rendering, this is a good website for you
to do for the jewelry designer. The second website I would like to talk
about is freelance.com. freelance.com has again have all kind of a work. Let's
go to do a test. Let's type a jewelry design, and let's do a search and see
what kind of a work they have. Right here, you kind of need to bit into it, you
have a jewelry design, and it will give you a day for you to bid on it.
Again there's a lot of graphic design even the jewelry for photo editing, and
you don't see much of a jewelry CAD model, once a while you will see some but
people like to do graphic design a .lot in the freelance.com The third one
I would like to talk about is guru.com. We want to go here and find a job
Again, we can type it jewelry design, and again you don't see much, you see a lot
of jewelry retouching, graphic design, but not a lot of a jewelry CAD work.
like the rest of three, you have some but if you not only do the jewelry
design, you also do the graphic. Those three websites, I will highly recommend.
I mainly use a lot of on the UpWrok.com In the upwork, if you type in
jewelry design, or you can type a jewelry cad design to be more specific, so you
see here you have custom jewelry, fashion jewelry designer, jewelry and
then so when you look at all those title, you kind of search what you will like, so
we're going to type in more specific. Jewelry CAD design, and they do have
option for "US only" or is international. so that's clear the filter and see more
job. So there are 33 job here. this one fine jewelry CAD designer.
Let's get into it, and look at it. Alright so they say they need to hire three
freelancers, and then they will have the description for what they are looking
for, and then you go through the description and see if you like it.
it also will show the history of this client. like how many job is being posted
how much being spending, what is the average hourly rate for all the job is
spending, all the money spending on those jobs. We can also look at this. Need CAD
designer to design jewelry sketch, so you go into it, and then you look at the
details. It will tell you, this is by hourly job or it is a fixed price, and it also
will tell you what kind of a level they are looking for. Sometimes, they will write
it down like certain CAD program like Rhino, Matrix, RhinoGold, and see if
you fit into the qualifications. They sometimes will give you the image of
what they are looking for. For example like this is the work they are looking
for, if you think you can do that, you definitely need to apply for it. Let's
take one more. Technical drawing for jewelry pendant design and of
course you need to understand what technical drawing is, and then you look
in the job description, and see if you can, if you like it, and again they will
have the sample of what they are looking for, or maybe they'll give you the sketch
for what they are looking for, and wanted to finish with the better rendering okay.
So looking all those job, they will say what's the criteria, and on the bottom
also will post similar jobs, if you like it then, you will submit a proposal and
when you submit a proposal... Right here it says the client is
prefer somebody is in the United Kingdom. Too bad, but anyway those are some
criteria they have, they might have some text requirement to be in the local okay
Let's say, if you really like it, and then you want to submit it, and it's
showing your hourly rate, and then you want to write a cover letter, and then you
want to drop your portfolio there and if you run out of the points, you can
purchase from the upwork. So a few things you need to have in mind, when you
work with upwork they charge twenty percent commission, so whatever you make
they will take 20 percent of that. That is the funding for them to operate
this website. Okay let's take a look on my profile here. First you need to write
it down who you are. You don't have to write a lot just one paragraph. It's
enough, and then you will set up your hourly rate, and then it will list what you
have done and people's feedback on that. and of course the project amount and
then they will look at your portfolio of things like that so you want to put
something that you think it's going to help you to get a job, and then you have
you know, current your education, and your employment history or
anything is worth to notice there. You want to put it on your profile. Okay so
let's take a look at other people's profile, and see what we can find as an
example. So let's go ahead to change here to freelancer and that's
type jewelry design there, and see other people's portfolios, and see what we
can learn from them. So me showing up here. here
you have another jewelry designer. Let's take a look on her profile,
alright so very clear bulletin of what she can do, and also showing her hourly
rate, and how much her she earned, and people will look at this really
carefully, it's about your rating, so always encourage your clients to write
review for you, and write it up what's their working experience, and
you can see some of her work here, she has a lot of work like 4 page so if a
client's interesting and find, okay, this is really similar like what I am doing
here, so they might contact you and give you an invitation. Also has
employment history is really really impressed, and also the education things
that you can put it up there. So let's go back and take a look
others. This Bonnie that's okay, so she's she's working with CAD Matrix jewelry
business. this is her hourly rate, and how much you earn, and again with the history
let's take a look on the portfolio
so sometimes you can have a link to have the portfolio for people to come in
here to take a look what you can do, be more clear, sometimes you can direct
people to your website so that will help as well, so let's take a look at one more.
This gentleman here so again it was saying what he does and people were
looking at the feedback, and people will look at the portfolio. It doesn't seem has a
lot of the portfolio here, but you can do this your own and
kind of browse over and see what kind of a description that it will catch your
eyes, and you probably want to do the similar format, and write it down in your
own way. Also you want to prepare a digital portfolio, and this is something
easy few pages that you can send people a quick digital format for what you do.
And those kind of things you don't have to have a lot of the text. Pretty much
people can tell what your ability by looking at the image, so you want to send
them something like the CAD model, the sketch, the design process sort of things
like that. You put into your portfolio, so basically for people to know you more
about what you can do. So when do you apply for the job, you can attach this
digital format, so people will able to know your ability. I hope you enjoy
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