Improvements to Freelancer Search Experience for Clients

[#1]

On March 20, we launched a new test feature to help clients searching for freelancers more easily view the information that’s most critical to them.

Check out the product release for Improvements to Freelancer Search Experience for Clients and let us know your thoughts about this update in the comments below.

[#2]

Shannon, what would really be helpful for freelancers - ability to search *most recent* jobs AND *jobs in our specific niche*. For example, I only care about *Google Ads* jobs. Yet 90% of my feed is Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, social media manager jobs, and other aspects of digital marketing I couldn't care less about. In this niche, Paid Search and Paid Social are very different animals. Oftentimes, the two don't talk with one another....the paid search people don't do paid social and vice versa. Many of us have niched down, so spending hours scrolling on irrelvant job postings is a complete waste of time. Thanks! 

[#3]

I'll tell you something that drive me bonkers... when I'm searching, and I want to go forward or back to someone I saw and liked, I have to scroll to the BOTTOM of the search page, and I can only go forward or back ONE page. At a minimum I should be able to skip over a few pages, so for example I should be able to see <Previous ... 4, 5, 6, 7, ... Next> for page choices, but in reality, like a thousand other pages on the web, there should be a BOX so I can type in the page number. Even if I don't remember the exact page number, if I'm on page 20, I know it was in the first five pages, etc. The navigation is so tedious now, and I want to have the option to change pages both at the top and at the bottom of the search results. There's no reason for it to even say "Previous" or "Next" in a system where those are your only choices anyway.

[#4]

☝️I support that. It's the same everywhere, seeing portfolios, jobs, forum pages, etc...
Yes, a way to be able to write where to go would be nice. 

[#5]

I don't know if this feature is still being tested, but I searched for myself today, and even though I tried refining my search to make myself as findable as possible, I didn't don't show up until the 8th page of results.

There are 19 people ahead of me who have made 10K+ but less than 100K.

When I don't put in any other filters, just my job niche, earnings (10K+), and a reasonably specific skill I'm searching for, I don't come up in the first 20 pages of results. I stopped there, so who knows where (or if) I actually ever show up. There are 118 freelancers listed with earnings of 10K+ but less than 100K. If you're going to let clients choose earnings as a filter, you need to add more options. For me just adding 100K+ would make a big difference; I don't know if it needs to be something like 10K, 50K, 100K, 500K, but 10K is definitely not enough of a separator. You could have three big jobs and earn 10K, but 10K, for those of us with higher hourly rates, doesn't really tell the story of how long and hard we've worked on the platform to build a solid reputation.

[#6]

Can clients search for specific types of projects a freelancer has completed or made, where the features and functionalities are described in detail, especially for developers?