Changes for Specialized Profiles in Mobile Development

[Guillaume L]

Hi Goran.

No I did not do any of what you mention.

Should I ?

[Goran V]

Hi Guillaume,

Please try troubleshooting this by following the steps above and if you`re still experiencing the same issue let me know what type of browsers you used. Thank you.

[Guillaume L]

Hi Goran.

Just to let you know, I tried again this morning without do any of the suggested work around and this worked this time.

Thanks

[Claudia Z]

Wouldn't be much more effective to just offer category select? Like it was on Elance but give the freelancer the option to input custom category title and description.

From what I noticed, the JSS is global .... kinda misleading. Shouldn't be displayed the JSS for that specific "profile"?

I searched freelancers in the "Mobile Development" category. After clicking on a profile I got the "General" profile ... shouldn't link to Mobile Dev profile? I suppose that when a freelancer with specialized profile submits a proposal, the client is still seeing first the General Profile.

"Specialized profiles" is confusing. How will the clients perceive the specialized profiles after they are available to everyone? If a freelancer doesn't setup any, does that mean that freelancer's profile is not specialized but only has a General Profile?

[Lena E]

Hey Claudia,

Great questions. If the freelancer's specialized profile is the one that matches the client's search query, then if the client clicks into the result they will see the specialized profile by default. In the case you mentioned with Web Development, its possible that freelancer didn't have a specialized profile and thats why you were shown their general profile. 

In regards to submitting proposals, jobs that have been associated with a specialization (currently web developmen) when a freelancer submits a proposal and has a matching specialized profile, this will be the default profile shown to clients with the proposal- and the client can still click over to view their general profile.

About JSS, it is global, as we are not to the point where we have a service-specific JSS yet. We will share your feedback with the team.

[Claudia Z]

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@Lena E wrote:

If the freelancer's specialized profile is the one that matches the client's search query, then if the client clicks into the result they will see the specialized profile by default.

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This doesn't happen if you only select the category, without a keyword search.

https://www.upwork.com/ab/profiles/search/?c=web-mobile-software-dev&sc=mobile-development

[Lena E]

Hi Claudia, 

These profiles are displayed when searching by keyword or with categories. Albeit, the number of freelancers who have a specialized profile vs the number of freelancers in the category is not very high yet. So unless narrowing your search more to like "android developer", you may find you have to click to page 4 or 5 before you find a freelancer with a specialized profile listed.  You'll be able to tell if they have a specialized profile if you see a star and a line that says "specializes in mobile app development" or something like that in their tile and when you click through you'll see that they have tabs for their general profile vs specialized profile. 

[Claudia Z]

Hi Lena,

using the search filter above, search only by category, I got on the first page only freelancers with specialized profiles and when I click on the name in the flyout it opens the General profile, I can see the tabs with specialized profiles. What I'm trying to say is that it links to a Speciliazed profile, ofcourse if one exist, only if you insert also a keyword search.

I ran a few searches and most of the times on the first page I got freelancers with specialized profiles. I hope specialized profiles aren't given a boost in the search to the detriment of the others who doesn't want/need to have additional specialized profiles.

[Rene K]

I'm sorry if this was already discussed somewhere, but when an FLer has this feature enabled, are there tabs on their profile which allow the client to navigate from one specialized profile to another?

I think this would be a must.

Other than that, I can't wait to see this fully deployed!

[Lena E]

Hi everyone, just a reminder all specialized iOS and Android profiles will be deleted today (August 20th). If you did not migrate your profile to the new mobile app or mobile game development profile, you can still create a new one by visiting your profile and following the prompts to create your spcialized profile.