Why Freelancer's hire rate is so low ?

[56c1d2ae]

 I have joined Upwork around 5 month. In these days I have sent more than 45 proposal(some boosted and some organic).But I have Interviewed with 5-6 time and got hired 4 time only. I noticed when I boosted a proposal, sometime boosted connect price(for a single proposal) crossed the total budget of that project. So the competition is very high. 

After that, when you did your best for getting hired and spent month and month, but result is not going good. it is really disapointing.

Thank you.

[yofazza]

8% hire rate is not bad. See here, she got hired 3 times out of 150 proposals (2%). Another freelancer below has 0.5%.

Why Freelancer's hire rate is so low ?

It's just the way it is. It should be consistent with the number of clients vs freelancers, plus a few other variables.

[yofazza · Accepted solution]

When you got hired 4 times from 5-6 interviews, it means you have no problem in convincing the client.

Before that, you need to have a good proposal and profile to make clients interview you after they read your proposal.

And before that, there's the notorious Upwork's secretive sorting algo that (arguably) determines if your proposals will ever be read by the client or not.

[56c1d2ae]

Thank you for clarification. I totally agree with you.

[bobafett999]

Also,  many will ignore your proposals because of your very low rate. Many equate low rate with fresh inexperienced freelancers who deliver low quality results.

[yofazza]

Just want to add something.

sometime boosted connect price(for a single proposal) crossed the total budget of that project. So the competition is very high. 

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They do that because:

• They will only pay as much as the booster in the 4th place paid.
• They expect to negotiate later, or to get more jobs from the client later. You can contact (or annoy) your ex-clients anytime you want.

Yes the competition is high. Competition to get jobs, not to provide quality work if you ask me.

I can see some 'logic' in all of Upwork's recent/controversial decisions. Whether those decisions will really/finally bring them profit or not, still remains to be seen.