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Upwork Profile Completion

Why It is important to have a complete 100% Upwork profile? It is important to have a complete and accurate Upwork profile because this is where you leave the impression of a professional or novice on your prospective clients. It is also important to achieve the statuses on Upwork like Rising Talen, Top Rated and more. Where can I find my percentage? To find your profile completion percentage, go to find work page and on the right side of this page; you’ll find Profile completion percentage How Upwork distributes score to profile? Upwork profile items can be divided in 2 categories. One is required and the other one is optional. Required items include:- Profile Photo Profile Title Profile Overview Employment History At Least 1 Skill Tag All the items mentioned above contribute 60% of your profile completion. The second part of an Upwork profile is Optional which includes:- Portfolio Item – 5% each (max 20%) Employment History Item – 10% each (max 20%) Education – 10% each (max 20%) Profile Video – 10% Linked Account – 10% (max 10%) Certificate – 5% each (max 10%) Other Experience – 5% (max 5%) Now all you need to do is complete the 60% required and pick any item from optionals to make profile completion 100%

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Upwork Boost your Proposal Feature

Upwork has recently introduced a new feature; “Boost your Proposal”. Although it’s in testing phase at the moment, it could help you win projects. Upwork will charge you additional connects to use this feature so there will be 2 usage of the connects while sending your proposals:- •        You will require to have the connects that are required to bid on any specific project •        You will spend additional connect so that your proposal could move to the top of the list of proposals Freelancers will bid using the connects and the freelancer who will win the bid; will be shown with a blue lightning bolt and “Highly Interested”. This will happen only if you’ll win the auction. How to place a bid to boost your proposal You’ll see a new box in send your proposal page with “Boost your proposal” title, enter the number of connects that you are willing to spend to get top position. If your bid will win, your proposal will be moved to the top of the list. What will happen If you’ll not win the project Upwork will refund you the additional connects that you used to boost your proposal. Upwork will refund after 7 days or when the client will hire someone else.

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