if you’re an odesk contractor and you’re
trying to win more jobs I’m going to
share with you the five ways to WoW
employers on odesk and land that job hi
I’m Evan Carmichael I believe in
entrepreneurs and I got a great question
for one of my YouTube subscribers Albert
love you guys who wrote in to say hi
Evan I’m about to start on odesk and
first I want to get all things ready I’m
a graphic designer and illustrator my
question is do employers get interested
on beginners I mean I’m not a beginner
but obviously I would not have any
feedback yet cuz I’m starting it would
be enough with the skills and the test
to get hired Albert Albert fantastic
question I’m a huge supporter of Oh does
he have been an employer there for a
while and I wanted to share with you my
five tips for how you can stand out and
wow employers number one is right a
great bio what I look for Navarro it’s
not just the skills you have but i want
to feel the passion for what you do I
want to know why you’re doing what you
do and what excites you about it so yes
tell me your skills tell me what you’ve
work tell me how many years experience
you have but also tell me what makes you
come alive and why you do what you do
also make sure you get your bio checked
out by native English speaker so you
don’t have errors in it in your question
to me you had a few grammatical errors
that people don’t care so much if you’re
a graphic designer they’re not hiring
you for your English skills but every
chance you have to impress a client you
want to take it so just get a friend of
yours who speaks English fluently to
check out that bio and make sure there
are no mistakes number to show you care
about the company one of the biggest pet
peeves I have with people who are
applying for a job for me on odesk or
otherwise is they do zero research into
me in my business did you submit the
form submit their cover letter and fire
it away sometimes not even changing the
name and it’s just saying dear sir or
madam if you want to stand out and
really wow the employer then do a little
research and digging into the business
visit my website and tell me what you
like about it follow me on social media
and respond to something that I’ve
posted tell me what you really love
about my business and what attracts you
to working with me I’d say only one
percent of the people who apply to a job
actually go that extra mile and I always
pay attention to those guys over
everybody else number three is have a
great picture have a professional full
color picture of yourself that I can
clearly see your face and I can relate
to you don’t make your picture black and
white don’t have a picture of you on the
beach don’t have a picture of you and
you’re under sharing your pajamas it’s
professional you’re trying to get a job
make it professional another thing I’d
say is make sure to smile in your
picture I know a lot of people from
different cultures having a serious
picture serious face is normal and
standard but if you want to work with
North Americans we’re used to seeing
smiling pictures for North American
employers seeing somebody who’s smiling
makes us relate to that person more
makes us like that person more and makes
you more likely to get a response from
us so have a great picture number four
is take the tests so only this provides
you all kinds of different testing you
can take the showcase how great you are
at different software tools this is
especially important if you don’t have
any work experience yet and you’re just
getting started you want to take those
tests and it’s not just taking the test
it’s doing well on the tests don’t just
go into it saying yeah I know Photoshop
will do that really well no problem you
need to score wow you want to be in the
top 10% of everybody on odesk was taking
that test so prepared for study for and
ease it because that will really help
make you stand out versus everybody else
on odesk a number five is upload your
portfolio again this is super important
if you have zero work experience you
want to be able to show people that you
have a great portfolio and you know what
you’re doing I try to show a diverse
range of portfolio items so that people
know you can do a lot of different
things and as a bonus if you really want
to connect to the North American
employers I try to have some North
American content in my portfolio even if
you’ve never actually worked with a
North American company before just take
a company and make a brochure for them
because again as an employer if I’m
seeing something I can relate to that’s
in my language that is around
that I can understand I’m much more
likely to want to hire you than if
everything you have is in another
language on businesses that I don’t
understand so upload your portfolio and
if you don’t have anything for a North
American company yet create something so
those are my five tips right a great bio
show you care about the company have a
great picture take the tests and upload
your portfolio and of course believe for
those are watching I love for you to
answer this question if you are
considering hiring somebody on odesk and
they had zero work experience that they
could share theirs their first contract
what would you look for what would you
want to see in somebody’s response to
you to get them to wow you and make that
memorable leave them in comments below
I’d love to hear what’s on your mind and
I think others would really benefit from
it as well if you guys like this video
don’t forget to subscribe to the channel
into the newsletter thank you so much
for watching and I’ll see you soon
trying to win more jobs I’m going to
share with you the five ways to WoW
employers on odesk and land that job hi
I’m Evan Carmichael I believe in
entrepreneurs and I got a great question
for one of my YouTube subscribers Albert
love you guys who wrote in to say hi
Evan I’m about to start on odesk and
first I want to get all things ready I’m
a graphic designer and illustrator my
question is do employers get interested
on beginners I mean I’m not a beginner
but obviously I would not have any
feedback yet cuz I’m starting it would
be enough with the skills and the test
to get hired Albert Albert fantastic
question I’m a huge supporter of Oh does
he have been an employer there for a
while and I wanted to share with you my
five tips for how you can stand out and
wow employers number one is right a
great bio what I look for Navarro it’s
not just the skills you have but i want
to feel the passion for what you do I
want to know why you’re doing what you
do and what excites you about it so yes
tell me your skills tell me what you’ve
work tell me how many years experience
you have but also tell me what makes you
come alive and why you do what you do
also make sure you get your bio checked
out by native English speaker so you
don’t have errors in it in your question
to me you had a few grammatical errors
that people don’t care so much if you’re
a graphic designer they’re not hiring
you for your English skills but every
chance you have to impress a client you
want to take it so just get a friend of
yours who speaks English fluently to
check out that bio and make sure there
are no mistakes number to show you care
about the company one of the biggest pet
peeves I have with people who are
applying for a job for me on odesk or
otherwise is they do zero research into
me in my business did you submit the
form submit their cover letter and fire
it away sometimes not even changing the
name and it’s just saying dear sir or
madam if you want to stand out and
really wow the employer then do a little
research and digging into the business
visit my website and tell me what you
like about it follow me on social media
and respond to something that I’ve
posted tell me what you really love
about my business and what attracts you
to working with me I’d say only one
percent of the people who apply to a job
actually go that extra mile and I always
pay attention to those guys over
everybody else number three is have a
great picture have a professional full
color picture of yourself that I can
clearly see your face and I can relate
to you don’t make your picture black and
white don’t have a picture of you on the
beach don’t have a picture of you and
you’re under sharing your pajamas it’s
professional you’re trying to get a job
make it professional another thing I’d
say is make sure to smile in your
picture I know a lot of people from
different cultures having a serious
picture serious face is normal and
standard but if you want to work with
North Americans we’re used to seeing
smiling pictures for North American
employers seeing somebody who’s smiling
makes us relate to that person more
makes us like that person more and makes
you more likely to get a response from
us so have a great picture number four
is take the tests so only this provides
you all kinds of different testing you
can take the showcase how great you are
at different software tools this is
especially important if you don’t have
any work experience yet and you’re just
getting started you want to take those
tests and it’s not just taking the test
it’s doing well on the tests don’t just
go into it saying yeah I know Photoshop
will do that really well no problem you
need to score wow you want to be in the
top 10% of everybody on odesk was taking
that test so prepared for study for and
ease it because that will really help
make you stand out versus everybody else
on odesk a number five is upload your
portfolio again this is super important
if you have zero work experience you
want to be able to show people that you
have a great portfolio and you know what
you’re doing I try to show a diverse
range of portfolio items so that people
know you can do a lot of different
things and as a bonus if you really want
to connect to the North American
employers I try to have some North
American content in my portfolio even if
you’ve never actually worked with a
North American company before just take
a company and make a brochure for them
because again as an employer if I’m
seeing something I can relate to that’s
in my language that is around
that I can understand I’m much more
likely to want to hire you than if
everything you have is in another
language on businesses that I don’t
understand so upload your portfolio and
if you don’t have anything for a North
American company yet create something so
those are my five tips right a great bio
show you care about the company have a
great picture take the tests and upload
your portfolio and of course believe for
those are watching I love for you to
answer this question if you are
considering hiring somebody on odesk and
they had zero work experience that they
could share theirs their first contract
what would you look for what would you
want to see in somebody’s response to
you to get them to wow you and make that
memorable leave them in comments below
I’d love to hear what’s on your mind and
I think others would really benefit from
it as well if you guys like this video
don’t forget to subscribe to the channel
into the newsletter thank you so much
for watching and I’ll see you soon
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