In this lesson I am going to discuss about job selection and how you are going to select the best job for you. There are hundreds and thousands of jobs, freelance jobs online. And there is a lot of methods involving and techniques involving best job selection. Okay, so in this lesson, we are going to discuss how you are going to select the best job, and what are the things you will look for in a job while selecting a job. In the end of the lesson, I'm going to show you a live example on how I'm going to search a job with a keyword on upwork.com which is the biggest freelance website freelance job websites. So let's get started.
Which jobs to apply for. Now, the first thing is that you need a key word or major skill you are looking for. If you are looking for a UI design job or a developer job or HTML to PSD to HTML job, or PHP job or WordPress job, you should type in and search for that keyword. The main problem here is a lot of new features Answers newbies, they try to apply on a lot of jobs even they are not sure about it. So only apply on jobs that really, really match your skill set 100% or 99%. Read the job description in detail before applying.
Read it one or two times at least thoroughly. Don't just read one paragraph or two paragraphs. See all the skills or all the things asked by the client answered those questions or you need to have all those skills in your skill set. Now the takeaway from this section is that apply only on jobs that you are sure about. Don't waste a client's time and don't ruin your Reppert with your clients or on that freelancing website. Also, don't apply on more than five jobs per day.
Don't rush into applying the jobs select your jobs carefully. only apply to jobs like three to five, five jobs per day because most of these freelance websites, they have limit on bidding Okay, you cannot apply on more than like 10 jobs in a week. So, use that wisely. Now, what are the things you are going to look for while applying for a freelance job number one is experience level of your client I have discussed it in another lecture you can see over here you can see the next lecture which is about right client selection then you can also see the clients budget and deadline of project if you cannot meet the deadline you are out of your way you should not apply on that job okay. Also you need to look for the competition how many applicants have already applied on that job. So, keep that in mind this can increase or decrease your likeliness of hiring.
Also, you are going to look for feedback about client if the client has a very poor feedback, you should not apply on that job. Otherwise you will end up having a very bad rating and ruining your freelance profile with the client. Okay, now the takeaways are make sure you are applying on the right job. You know what you are doing, make sure everything that line budget, everything meets you accordingly. And you can easily do that in that budget and that timeline. Also check for freelance competition, you need to check for the competition because it is going to be like 70 of freelancers have applied on that job, there are less chances that you are going to be hired.
Okay, now which jobs you are going to provide on freelance sites, there are few tips I'm going to give you jobs with a very poor clients feedback. If the client have a very poor feedback from previous freelancers, then you should not take that job. jobs that don't fit your skill set. If you if the clients have asked you tools or skill sets that they really need, and you don't know how to use them. You should not apply on that. If the deadline is very tight, you should not or it's impossible, you cannot do it in one day or two days.
You should not waste the time of your client. Also, there are jobs that are very cheap rates, like create a website for me in just five colors. Okay, so never try to apply on those jobs these jobs are really going to ruin your freelance profile and your freelance career. Also there are jobs that have very vague description, like one or two lines that says okay, I opened up a job description and it says, I need a website okay? And there is nothing else about it. Now I need a website means many things whether you need a logo for the website, you need the design for that website, you need coding for that website, whether it is going to be a WordPress website or e commerce website.
What do you need basically the client is missing every description okay? If you face something like that, you need to see the takeaways right now, if the client have poor feedback, or poor rating or reviews or that line is very tight, you should not apply on that job. Also, if you are worried about the job description, you don't know what the clients need. You should ask questions okay, before applying to that job or you should try to ask questions about that job. So to make sure that you know what you are going to do for that client. So this is all about job selection and what you are going to look for jobs.
On a freelance side let's see an example live example. Now here is an example of a job with very less description you can see over here, writing specs for software web website, I need someone to create good specs, Okay, I understand that and ask them to start working on it. Okay, now he needs a writer with a lot of good specs, you need to see the client reviews over here. There are a lot of skills he has listed over here you need to see whether you've paid for them. It is a one time project. Okay, there are few more filtering questions he has asked over here.
You should answer those accordingly. Okay. Also, you can see he has applied for at least 90% these doesn't matter much. You need to apply on it. Okay, if this these skills match you and the details are good to go, you should apply on it. You can see over here, this is the response.
Other freelancers have given about this client you can see very bad experience is not responsive. So sometimes bad clients, they don't respond for like weeks which can really slow down your work and it can really hurt you in the long run. So this is you can see over here also this he is a bit shaky, I can say that this clients image is a bit shady, you should not try to apply on this job. Okay, now you can see over here, this is a new client. And I think he's already interviewing one person over here. Okay, so already the people applied have they have applied like five to 10 people have already applied on this job.
He have a very good work history over here like you can see over here. So you should try to submit a proposal for this job start date you can see you're here 12 October. So if you are busy before that date, make sure that you can start from this time. Read this description you can see over here they have their bullet points, read it fully see the requirements over here JavaScript web design, web development, if you are good at all these things you should apply on this job. So these are the things you need to keep in mind. Also, you can see over here, what kind of job it is hourly, expert level, he needs expert level person over here and you should try you can also save this job if you want to apply it after some time or maybe later at night or tomorrow.
But try to apply it as early as possible. Like you can see five to 10 applicants are very low, you can easily compete with them and let's see How many have applied over here Okay, so also you can see over here there are upgraded membership to see how much connects and other perks you can get a lot of perks and also you can see whether this job have a high rate average rate or low rate of application and what average hourly rate has been applied on this job so you can change your job proposal according to that. Okay, so these are all the tips you can use to apply on any job. So let's move on to the next lesson.