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To get to your settings, you scroll to the top of your upper profile.

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You can click right here on profile settings, or you can click your image and get to settings from

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here as well.

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Here is where your profile settings lie.

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And from here, you have the ability to change the settings of how your profile shows up and how your

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earnings are displayed, as well as other settings that impact your Upwork experience.

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So first, the visibility I suggest to always leave this on public, you want to stay in that algorithm

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and you want to keep your pipeline full at all times.

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Next, you get to choose if you want to show your full name or just your first name and last initial.

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If you're full into being a freelancer, if you're here to build your personal brand, there's no reason

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to not show your full name.

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There's no reason to hide that, so I always like to leave this on my full name.

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And unless you have a specific reason, I suggest doing that as well.

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And remember, you can always highlight and hover over these sections, and I'll give you a little bit

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of a reminder of what they mean.

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So for this, this is your project preference, and this is something you can always change at all times,

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but I highly suggest keeping this at both short term and long term projects.

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Even if you just want long term projects, don't pick this because a lot of clients that want to hire

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for long term start out by hiring a freelancer for a short term project and for that short term project,

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they see how you do.

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And then they might offer you a long term project.

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So no matter what you're going for, I really suggest leaving it on both.

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The next section is your earnings privacy, and this is only if you have the freelancer plus plan.

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But what this does is it lets you hide your earnings and this could be beneficial if you don't have

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any earnings yet.

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And if you have the paid plan, you might want to go ahead and check this box off until you have a couple

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of reviews and money earned on the platform.

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Once you start earning, you want to show that off, you want to show clients that you have earnings

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here.

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So once you have those, I would uncheck this.

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And the next part is your experience level when you're starting out.

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I highly suggest never choosing entry level.

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You always want to set it to intermediate.

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If you have any foundation of a skill, you can eventually work your way up to expert.

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So intermediate is where you can get started.

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You can get some money earned on the platform and earn a pretty good rate, whereas entry level it's

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pretty much just beginner level work.

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They're highly competitive, very low paying, and they're not providing much value.

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This is jobs like data entry and things that don't require any skill.

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They're just monotonous tasks.

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Don't undervalue yourself here.

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Good people are very hard to find.

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So go ahead.

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Start with intermediate and work your way up to that expert level.

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Moving down the categories is the skills that you provide.

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So as we went over previously, this is those 10 skills based on what skill set you provide.

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And as you can see, these are my two pillars my website and mobile development and my sales and marketing

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pillars.

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Make sure you choose skills that only you can serve on because this is what your Upwork experience is

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all based off of.

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Then you have your specialized profile section, which we will go over shortly, followed by your linked

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account section, you linked accounts, I suggest to go ahead.

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And if you have any of these accounts, go ahead, linked them up.

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Make sure they're professional, of course, and this is another way you can add more credibility.

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Everything you can do that's professional and that adds to your profile.

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I suggest to go ahead and do.

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Now let's get into the last part of this section where we are going to go over your specialized profiles.