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Michael J Community Member

Get Profile Feedback from Experienced Freelancers on Upwork

Hi Community!

 

Getting started on Upwork can take a lot of work and focus. To help make this process a little easier, we’ve created this post where you can request feedback on your profile. The community is full of experienced Upwork freelancers who are passionate about helping others. These users will review your profile and provide feedback based on their experience.

 

If you’re interested in requesting help, make sure your profile visibility is not set to “Private” and then reply below. 

 

We’re excited to see how Community members can continue to help each other to grow!

 

Note: A previous version of this post was as the number of responses made it difficult to read and navigate. If you had not received a response yet to a request you made, please post again in this thread.


Cheers,
Mike
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Michael J Community Member

Hi all,

 

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Mike

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Stephen's avatar
Stephen S Community Member

Hello, could you possibly check my profile through and give me some criticism about what I could change to make it more welcoming with a better chance to gain clients?

Riyadh's avatar
Riyadh B Community Member

Hello Anthony,

How are you? I hope you are in good health. I'm new to Upwork. I have applied to many jop posts, but unfortunately i couldn't receive any responds from the clients. Can you please review my profile and find is there anything i'm missing on it ? or any improvements to be done ?

 

Your help is highly appritiated on this matter.

 

https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~015bdc0954c0f2565d?viewMode=1

 

Thank You.

Kind Rgds,

Riyadh.

William T's avatar
William T C Community Member

Hey Riyadh, please update your Settings from Private to Public so your Profile can be viewed. Thanks!

Ahmet Eren's avatar
Ahmet Eren K Community Member

Hi!

can you please check mine. 

I'm getting less interview than before. I wonder If my profile is professional enough or not. 

 

William T's avatar
William T C Community Member

Hey Ahmet, nice Profile! Please shorten the Summary and make sure that the Title contains your 2 most important keywords. Thanks!

Alishba Fatima's avatar
Alishba Fatima G Community Member
William T's avatar
William T C Community Member

Hey Alishba, please update your Settings from Private to Public. Nobody can view your Profile now. Thanks!

Anis's avatar
Anis U Community Member

Please check my profile.

Anthony's avatar
Anthony H Community Member

Anis,

 

Since you are doing well with great reviews, what you need is a boost.

Take your two best reviews and copy them and paste them up at the top of your write up, so they are the first thing people see when going to your profile.

Then take out the first sentence in which you say "Hi. I am Anis ____" and you give out your last name.

You don't need your name there at all. Your name is already clearly visible. This is work, not a party.  Aside from opening yourself up for scams by presenting your last name, you are missing the chance to get right to the point. If you were in a hurry which would you rather see, "Hi, I am Blah, Blah Blah" Or "I am fast, efficient Wordpress expert who can quickly give you content and images that will ehance your business. Let's see what I can do for you."

Your choice.


Anis's avatar
Anis U Community Member

Thank you, Anthony.

Mahinoor Fatema's avatar
Mahinoor Fatema B Community Member

Hi!

can you please check mine. 

I'm getting less interview than before. I wonder If my profile is professional enough or not. 

thanks in advance. 

Anthony's avatar
Anthony H Community Member

Mahinoor,

You have probably noticed that I can be very picky. This is partly because your English could improve a little and I don't like to make changes without explaining why.

So: Stray thoughts: Your introductory video is very nice. I liked it. But it is long and it doesn't show off your skills at special effects and features very well. So keep it, but replace that with something shorter and fancier when you get a chance.

Your rate is too low. I understand this is done to attract the first couple of customers, but you could surely start at $15 per hour. It shows more confidence.

Your write up needs white space. It's too crowded together. You have to put in some space between paragraphs.

You should fix a few things. Don't use capital letters for TEXT and MY JOB. Write TEXT with a capital T to match your other listings and put MY JOB in lower case in italics. It will look better.

Write out Youtube ... instead of YT.

 

Erase this sentence: I have completed a professional video editing course from a local institution here in Dhaka.

Why do that? You are here as an expert. I am a writer. I don't say "I took a course in English grammar when I was young." That just looks odd. All video editors took a course somewhere, so just cross that sentence out. It looks childish.

 

Help full is one word: helpful. 

 

Erase "Also Don't hesitate to knock me on inbox" Replace that with "Don't hesitate to get in touch."

 

Cross out the rest and replace it with "I'm always available to talk ... would love to hear more about your project. Thank you!"

 

OK, those are pretty picky items, but your profile is really fine.  There's nothing wrong with it, but it will look more professional if you fix those little, nagging items.

 

So here is something that will really give you a boost: Cut and paste this and put it at the very top of your write up:

From an early Upwork review:

 

"Mahinoor was very diligent and professional, and made revisions without any trouble. I'd love to work with her again. Her video editing was top notch! Highly recommended!"

 

Cut and paste all that and put it up where everyone can see it. Put all of your write up below that. Why? There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- that will bring in business more than a previous customer saying they would love to work with you again. 

Hope that helps. 

Manish's avatar
Manish M Community Member

Hi Anthony, can you just spend a few minutes on my profile and share your feedback please?

 

https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~0168b4cf269118057a/

Sandipa's avatar
Sandipa M Community Member

Hi, Can you please check my profile? I would love to get some feedback from you. 

Qandeel's avatar
Qandeel N Community Member

Hi Anthony, 

I'd be grateful if you could review my profile, pls. I'm new to Upwork.

 

Regards. 

Asjad's avatar
Asjad R Community Member

Hello Anthony,

 

I'm new to Upwork and want to start getting work, however, despite submitting numerous proposals, clients consistently choose other freelancers who already have completed projects.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you

Razu's avatar
Razu A Community Member

Hello Mike... How are you?

Please, review my profile... https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~011eeb09fc27abb4d9

Alisha's avatar
Alisha H Community Member

Hi Razu. 

 

It looks like your profile is set to Private. We won't be able to review it until you set it to Public. 

Shaima's avatar
Shaima N Community Member

Hi Mike!

 

I would absolutely love some feedback on my profile. 

 

Thanks,

Shaima

Anthony's avatar
Anthony H Community Member

Shaima,

For starters, very nice photo.

Secondly, you are in a very special place. I have reviewed dozens of profiles and I have yet to see a medical writer come along. 

 

That's a very engaging, very useful skill. I, myself, have done medical content writing, which is not the same as medical writing. You are qualified to write specifically for a medically eduated audience, whereas I wrote articles for the lay person.

That said, you could earn as much as $100 per hour. Your rate, therefore, is way, way too low. 

In fact, it is low for genereic medical writing as well -- the type of writing I did. What I did was, essentially, copywriting for medical clinics -- articles like "What is tonselitis?" You, as a trained medical professional, can certainly do that -- $25 per article, if I recall correctly. But you can also do ghostwriting for doctors -- $50 per hour at least.

I would advise you to look through Upwork profiles for medical writers specifically. Look at the profiles of writers with good reviews and high earnings. See how they present themselves. Look at their rates. See what they might be.  For starters, chose a rate somewhere in the middle of the pack and raise your rates after you get a couple of good reviews.

Good luck to you.

Sufia's avatar
Sufia A Community Member

Hello Anthony !

would you like to visit my profile ? 

please give me some feedback , it'll be helpfull for me !

 

Thanks !

 

Raian Al Mahee's avatar
Raian Al Mahee K Community Member

Hello there,

I'm Raian a professional Graphic Designer. I'm a new freelancer on upwork and I want to provide good service to my clients according to my skills. I have sended couple of job proposals and all of my connects end. But not hired by any respectable clients. I know that in this field it needs to have patience. But I want to know that is my profile able for a client to attract on it and text me for hiring ? Does my profile need any changes ?

Please help, need expert advices !

Thank You.

Razu's avatar
Razu A Community Member

Please, tell me about my profile... What should I improve...Thanks

Waqar's avatar
Waqar H Community Member

Hello Anthony! 

I am new. Please take a look at my profile and give any suggestions for improvement..

Thanks 

Arjana's avatar
Arjana M Community Member

Hi Mike,

 

 I would like someone from experienced freelancers to look at my profile. 

 

Thank you for your help.

 

Arjana M.