Restriction to Number of Jobs in Progress for Experienced Freelancers.

[ashwin_srini11]

There should be some restriction for Top Rated Freelancer in the number of Proposal in Progress. We new freelancer are unable to compete with them. Even the client keep offering them with proposals.

Please Upwork, work on something for this. It would be disappointing beeing active for a month and not wining many proposals. 

[feed_my_eyes]

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Ashwin Srinivasan B wrote:

There should be some restriction for Top Rated Freelancer in the number of Proposal in Progress. We new freelancer are unable to compete with them. Even the client keep offering them with proposals.

Please Upwork, work on something for this. It would be disappointing beeing active for a month and not wining many proposals. 

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If you become top-rated, you may find yourself back in the forum complaining that too many new freelancers are being accepted, and that you can't compete because they're all offering rock-bottom prices and desperate to do anything to get started.

Anyway, Upwork is already fair to new freelancers in that the search results are rotated to give everyone a chance. But if some clients prefer to work with more experienced freelancers, Upwork can't force them to pick you instead. You'll just need to keep trying and build up your reputation, the same as all of us had to do.

[florydev]

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Ashwin Srinivasan B wrote:

There should be some restriction for Top Rated Freelancer in the number of Proposal in Progress. We new freelancer are unable to compete with them. Even the client keep offering them with proposals.

Please Upwork, work on something for this. It would be disappointing beeing active for a month and not wining many proposals. 

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You are not going to get a lot of love for this opinion.  

So if you were holding a 100 meter dash you would first shoot Usain Bolt in the foot?  That's your idea of fair.

Your problem, almost certainly is not this problem.  You are not competing with TR freelancer's who are really good at getting work because it is quite likely they already have work.  What you are more likely facing is a mass of people applying for the same thing you are with some shade of the same experience and qualifications.

What you need to do is find a way to differentiate yourself from the crowd.  How do you stand out?  What can you speak to a client's problem and inner concerns that will comfort them that you know how to deliver them a solution?

Do that and well and you will soon realize being Top Rated means almost nothing.