Upwork Job Searches That Gets You Job Quickly — Transcript

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1. 0:00I know of freelancers who spend 3 hours
2. 0:03scrolling through Upwork jobs and end up
3. 0:06applying to zero. Meanwhile, I found
4. 0:10five perfect projects in just 12 minutes
5. 0:13and landed two clients in one week. What
6. 0:16was the difference between me and such
7. 0:18freelancers? It's a simple search hack
8. 0:21that 99 freelancers do not know about.
9. 0:24If you are still using Upwork's default
10. 0:27field, refreshing homepage, or even
11. 0:31typing random keys and praying, hoping
12. 0:34for a good job, you're about to discover
13. 0:37why you are only seeing $5 per hour kind
14. 0:40of jobs and the good jobs are going to
15. 0:43other people.
16. 0:51Few months ago, let's call this person
17. 0:54Mr. K. Mr. K is an AI automation expert,
18. 0:58was about to quit Upwork. He's been
19. 1:01freelancing for some years now, and he
20. 1:03had great skills to be honest. But he
21. 1:06found himself always competing with
22. 1:08other freelancers before he would apply.
23. 1:10Dozens of people had applied for that
24. 1:12job already, and he was already tired.
25. 1:15Then he discovered what I'm about to
26. 1:18show you. Within 30 days, his project
27. 1:22value went from $500 to $3,000. But here
28. 1:26is the crazy part. He wasn't working
29. 1:28more hours. Neither did he change to a
30. 1:31new skill. He just changed how he
31. 1:34started searching and finding jobs on
32. 1:36Upwork. Here is what not to do. Do not
33. 1:40scroll past jobs that you do not want.
34. 1:43Let me explain. The Upwork algorithm
35. 1:46thinks that whatever you're scrolling
36. 1:48past and spend up to 2 seconds on,
37. 1:50you're interested in it and it will
38. 1:52bring such to your timeline again.
39. 1:55Instead, do this. Find the job that fits
40. 1:58into your ideal kind of project. Even if
41. 2:01you're not ready to apply to such job,
42. 2:03save them. Saving those jobs tells the
43. 2:05Upwork algorithm that you love this kind
44. 2:07of jobs and you want it to keep showing
45. 2:09you this kind of job subsequently. Even
46. 2:11jobs that has already hired another
47. 2:14freelancer or has sent several invites
48. 2:18to other freelancers, but it fits
49. 2:20perfectly to your skill set, save it,
50. 2:22too. It also tells the Upwork algorithm
51. 2:25that you're interested in such kind of
52. 2:27jobs, too. But when you see jobs that
53. 2:29you're not interested in and they're
54. 2:31popping up on your timeline, thumbs down
55. 2:33on them. Thumbing down on those jobs
56. 2:36tells the Upwork algorithm that you
57. 2:38don't want to see this kind of jobs
58. 2:39again. And when you thumbs down and you
59. 2:41asked why you should click on not
60. 2:43interested, he lets the Upwork algorithm
61. 2:45know that you don't want these kind of
62. 2:47jobs popping up on your timeline
63. 2:48anymore. Let me even ask you, how many
64. 2:51hours did it take you last week to
65. 2:53search for jobs on Upwork, just
66. 2:55searching for jobs, not submitting
67. 2:57proposals, not applying for anything,
68. 2:59just searching and scrolling. How long
69. 3:01did it take you? If it takes you more
70. 3:02than 30 minutes, then you should know
71. 3:05that you're doing something wrong. While
72. 3:06you might have been struggling scrolling
73. 3:08through 15 search results or jobs on
74. 3:12your timeline, the smart freelancers
75. 3:14have already put system in place that
76. 3:16they getting notifications of jobs that
77. 3:18are dropping immediately they are posted
78. 3:20and they're getting notifications so
79. 3:22they are able to apply as soon as
80. 3:23possible before those jobs that they
81. 3:26applied for comes to your timeline. Best
82. 3:28believe that those freelancers have
83. 3:30applied for it or are even hired by the
84. 3:32clients. Now, here is where it gets
85. 3:34interesting. There's a specific feature
86. 3:36on Upwork that freelancers do not pay
87. 3:40attention to that when you pay attention
88. 3:42to it, it gets you 80% of the best
89. 3:45clients out there on Upwork. It's called
90. 3:47saved searches. And here is how it
91. 3:50works. Instead of searching manually
92. 3:52every day on Upwork, you create smart
93. 3:55searches on Upwork once and Upwork
94. 3:58automatically finds jobs that match
95. 4:01those safe searches you have. Step one,
96. 4:04the perfect search query. Don't just
97. 4:06search for broad terms like automation.
98. 4:09Be specific. For me, I search for things
99. 4:12like Trello, Zapia, Air Table. The more
100. 4:15specific your searches are, the better
101. 4:17the results for you. Step two, the
102. 4:20filter magic. Most people end at step
103. 4:22one, but in step two, that is where the
104. 4:25real magic is. And I'm going to show
105. 4:27you. After I do my search, I set up
106. 4:29filters that eliminate time wasters. I
107. 4:32take payment verified only jobs, jobs
108. 4:36posted in the last 24 hours, fixed price
109. 4:39jobs that are within 500 to $1,000 or
110. 4:42hourly jobs that are within $30 and
111. 4:44above. Now, step three. When all of this
112. 4:48filtering is done, under the search I
113. 4:51have done, I click on save search. What
114. 4:54you might not know is that you can have
115. 4:56as many saved searches as possible. you
116. 4:58can have for Air Table, Zapia,
117. 5:00Monday.com, Trello as much as possible
118. 5:02so that when you come back to the app to
119. 5:05apply for jobs within those tools or
120. 5:07niches you want, you have created list
121. 5:10that you just click on and get the jobs
122. 5:12that fall under that fall under those
123. 5:15specific tool or skill sets. But here is
124. 5:18one mistake that even smart freelancers
125. 5:20make with their saved searches. They
126. 5:23create the safe searches and forget
127. 5:25about them. Not realizing that the most
128. 5:27successful freelancers do something
129. 5:29differently every week with those safe
130. 5:32searches. Every weekend, let's say
131. 5:34Saturday and Sunday, I spend 15 minutes
132. 5:37each day within those weekends to do
133. 5:39something I call search audits. Here's
134. 5:41what I do within those 15 minutes that
135. 5:43help me to keep having clients send me
136. 5:45direct messages or even invites for
137. 5:48jobs. Number one, I review performance.
138. 5:51I review the searches that brought me
139. 5:53the best leads for that week. If a saved
140. 5:56search do not bring me any lead, I try
141. 5:58to modify it or delete it. Here's what I
142. 6:01mean. When I create my saved searches,
143. 6:03is expected that I click on those save
144. 6:05searches to search for jobs. Right? When
145. 6:08I click on them and I apply for jobs,
146. 6:10it's expected that I either land the
147. 6:12job, my proposal is viewed, or I get
148. 6:14into a conversation with that client.
149. 6:18That is a best lead. But if after having
150. 6:20the safe searches, I apply for those
151. 6:22jobs and none of this happened, probably
152. 6:25something is wrong with my sales
153. 6:27searches, especially if I have done
154. 6:29everything good like writing a good
155. 6:31proposal, applying early, adding my
156. 6:34portfolio, and all that is done by the
157. 6:36books of submitting a good proposal.
158. 6:40Number two, I add new keywords. This one
159. 6:43is very crucial. I look at jobs I have
160. 6:46landed in recent times and I look at
161. 6:49keywords that the client added to the
162. 6:51job description that is not in my key
163. 6:54search words and I'll add it in. For
164. 6:56instance, if I had process optimization
165. 6:59saved as a keyword from what I've been
166. 7:03saving as my save search and a job I
167. 7:05recently landed, the client had um
168. 7:07workflow automation. I'll most likely
169. 7:10change what I had as process
170. 7:12optimization to workflow optimization,
171. 7:15especially if I realize that that word
172. 7:17is being added to most of the jobs I'm
173. 7:20seeing or I've been applying to and
174. 7:23getting response from. Number three,
175. 7:25study the competition. I'll always look
176. 7:27at what other freelancers in my niche
177. 7:30are doing. I can go as far as looking at
178. 7:32jobs that they landed and looking at the
179. 7:35keywords on the job and reverse engineer
180. 7:38on those keyword. This is what I mean.
181. 7:41If they landed a job, I can click on the
182. 7:43job they landed, read through the job
183. 7:44description, look at the keywords that
184. 7:46were added to the job description under
185. 7:48the skill aspect, pick those skills or
186. 7:51keywords and add them to my sales search
187. 7:53or even add them to my own profile and
188. 7:56under the skill or in my about page.
189. 7:59Now, there are two things this 15
190. 8:01minutes I spend on the platform does for
191. 8:03me. Aside having for me to move around,
192. 8:06audit things and do all of that. It also
193. 8:09helps Upwork know that I'm busy on this
194. 8:11platform and for me to remain on this
195. 8:13platform and pressing things, changing
196. 8:15things. It shows that I'm willing or
197. 8:18ready to receive clients. So the
198. 8:20algorithm can pick me as someone who is
199. 8:22interested and ready for a job because
200. 8:24of the activities I'm doing and push me
201. 8:26to clients who are ready to hire at that
202. 8:28moment. I also need to mention to you
203. 8:31that you see that place in your Upwork
204. 8:33account on on your timeline that says
205. 8:36best matches to be honest those are the
206. 8:38best places you can get jobs. So click
207. 8:41on the best matches apply for them.
208. 8:42Reason being that at the back end of the
209. 8:44clients where they will be seeing people
210. 8:46who apply for jobs. If you click on that
211. 8:48best matches and apply, it shows the
212. 8:50client that this freelancer is a best
213. 8:52fit for you. Meaning there are skills
214. 8:54you have put on your profile that
215. 8:57matches with jobs that have those
216. 8:59keywords also on their job post. That is
217. 9:02why you're finding them on that best
218. 9:04matches. Now, there's one key element
219. 9:06that separates freelancers who find
220. 9:09occasional jobs from freelancers who
221. 9:12have clients lining up in their DM,
222. 9:14sending them direct messages, sending
223. 9:15them invites. And I'm going to tell you,
224. 9:17you need to stop thinking like a job
225. 9:19seeker and start thinking and
226. 9:21positioning yourself as a consultant for
227. 9:23job opportunities. One of the things
228. 9:25that changed for Mr. K that I narrated
229. 9:27the story at the beginning of this video
230. 9:29is that he started applying for jobs
231. 9:32that fit into his skill. He wasn't just
232. 9:34now applying to any job and everything
233. 9:36just because he wanted to make money
234. 9:38whether they they were below his pay or
235. 9:40his worth. This time he was more
236. 9:42strategic and any job that didn't fit
237. 9:44into his skill set, he did away with
238. 9:47them. What you don't know is that the
239. 9:48algorithm notices your activity on the
240. 9:50platform. If you keep applying for
241. 9:52lowpaying jobs, especially if you have a
242. 9:54high paying skill, it will keep bringing
243. 9:56such jobs and even such invites your
244. 9:58way. But when you keep rejecting those
245. 10:01jobs or thumbing down those jobs that do
246. 10:03not fit into what you want, especially
247. 10:06with their pay, it will start bringing
248. 10:08up jobs that you applied to that the pay
249. 10:10is reasonable, the skill set fit into
250. 10:13what you are doing because that is what
251. 10:14you are engaging with. All right, here's
252. 10:17your homework and I want you to do it
253. 10:19today. Will you? I know you said yes.
254. 10:22First, go and clean up your job feed. If
255. 10:26you find a job that doesn't fit into
256. 10:28what you want, you're not interested in,
257. 10:29thumbs down. And if it is something
258. 10:32you're interested in, whether the job
259. 10:34has hired somebody or it's interviewing
260. 10:37people already or more people have
261. 10:39applied for it, you're not applying for
262. 10:40it, save that job. Secondly, go ahead
263. 10:43and create at least three safe searches
264. 10:46with the method I taught you in the
265. 10:48course of this video. Thirdly, go ahead
266. 10:51and set a 15 minutes weekly reminder
267. 10:54that helps you audit your searches at
268. 10:57the end of the week. Now, I want you to
269. 11:00do this consistently for 7 days and come
270. 11:02back to this video and tell me what the
271. 11:04results was. Now, tell me, what's your
272. 11:07biggest frustration with finding jobs on
273. 11:09Upwork? Make sure that whatever you're
274. 11:12complaining about, I have not talked
275. 11:13about it on this channel. If not, I'll
276. 11:15refer you back to that. But if I've not
277. 11:17talked about it, I just might have a
278. 11:19solution for you. I read comments and
279. 11:21I'll respond to you. And if I need to
280. 11:24make an elaborate video on it, I'll make
281. 11:26sure to mention it to you. Remember, you
282. 11:28should stop hoping for good jobs and
283. 11:31start creating a system that finds those
284. 11:34jobs for you. If this video helped you,
285. 11:36hit the subscribe button and help me
286. 11:39give it a thumbs up so that it pushes
287. 11:40the video to more people that find this
288. 11:43video valuable. and I'll see you in my
289. 11:46next video. Do take care.