Anything for the first time is exciting to everybody but getting things for first time by compete with others is not easy at all. Similarly, getting first project/job in odesk.com may become very tough for you as well. Although you have very strong education background, you have worked excellent companies and you have very good working portfolio but find out your first project might tough for you as well. I have few suggestions which might help you to get your first project quickly.
Small Projects: Always apply for small projects rather then larger projects for your first few projects. Selecting small projects for apply is an intelligent decision because of their short requirement and time duration is also short. Moreover, you might not passionate for months for your first project. So if you choose small duration projects you can apply more. Slowly when your portfolio become rich you automatically switchover to larger projects.
Selection of buyer: As you already known that, applying a project will take 10 minutes to hours. And selection of project which you will apply for take maximum 5-10 minute. So it's wise first select which projects you go to apply. So when you analyze a project even before read job description have a look buyers few details like how many projects posted by this buyer, how many of them assigned to contractor, what rating & comments posted by previous contractors, and how he rate contractors. Many buyers only post projects, take your suggestions and discuss over and over, again and again. But not declare project winners for maximum of the cases. my suggestion not to apply this type of job for your first project which might get you frustrated.
Job Description: Read whole Job Description carefully. If you are not clear about any topic in job description please google first(if it's a searchable one) or ask buyer about it. It's very important for you to understand whole project clearly. Buyers are tricky sometimes. Intentionally they write something in job description which they don't make clear because they want you to ask question about that point.
Ask Question to Buyer: Ask relevant questions to buyer about project. Buyer always appreciate questions. But never ask irrelevant questions which cause negative impact of you.
Do partial of project: Its a very good technique to get your first project which really worked for me. Let me give you an real life example. I have found a medium range project where buyers main focus was on nexmo SMS API integration. Before submit my application i have created 2 page demo for him where i have implemented nexmo API free credit. And yes it's impressed client very much and i win the project.
On top of apply those projects which best suited to you, feel comfortable.
Happy Bidding !!!
Small Projects: Always apply for small projects rather then larger projects for your first few projects. Selecting small projects for apply is an intelligent decision because of their short requirement and time duration is also short. Moreover, you might not passionate for months for your first project. So if you choose small duration projects you can apply more. Slowly when your portfolio become rich you automatically switchover to larger projects.
Selection of buyer: As you already known that, applying a project will take 10 minutes to hours. And selection of project which you will apply for take maximum 5-10 minute. So it's wise first select which projects you go to apply. So when you analyze a project even before read job description have a look buyers few details like how many projects posted by this buyer, how many of them assigned to contractor, what rating & comments posted by previous contractors, and how he rate contractors. Many buyers only post projects, take your suggestions and discuss over and over, again and again. But not declare project winners for maximum of the cases. my suggestion not to apply this type of job for your first project which might get you frustrated.
Job Description: Read whole Job Description carefully. If you are not clear about any topic in job description please google first(if it's a searchable one) or ask buyer about it. It's very important for you to understand whole project clearly. Buyers are tricky sometimes. Intentionally they write something in job description which they don't make clear because they want you to ask question about that point.
Ask Question to Buyer: Ask relevant questions to buyer about project. Buyer always appreciate questions. But never ask irrelevant questions which cause negative impact of you.
Do partial of project: Its a very good technique to get your first project which really worked for me. Let me give you an real life example. I have found a medium range project where buyers main focus was on nexmo SMS API integration. Before submit my application i have created 2 page demo for him where i have implemented nexmo API free credit. And yes it's impressed client very much and i win the project.
On top of apply those projects which best suited to you, feel comfortable.
Happy Bidding !!!
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