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Upwork Accounts Registration: Do you have the right skills?

Upwork is currently the most popular platform for freelancers wanting to earn money by working online. For those who don't know, Upwork was the result of a merger between two freelancing platforms (websites), namely: Elance (founded in 1999) and Odesk (founded in 2003). The merging happened in 2013, thus giving birth to Upwork.


With over 12 million registered freelancers and over 5 million registered clients, joining Upwork is getting more and more difficult nowadays. I started out in 2008 and was active on Odesk, so when the merger came, my account was automatically transferred to Upwork.

To gain a high chance of getting your account's registration approved on Upwork, it is essential to learn new skills or to possess skills that are currently in demand. Upwork press release regularly posts their top fast-growing skills per quarter. For example, according to Upwork's Q3 Skills Index for 2018, these are the Top 20 fastest-growing skills for freelancers:

  1. Dropbox API
  2. Equity research
  3. Molecular biology
  4. iPhone UI design
  5. Salesforce Marketing Cloud
  6. Genetic algorithms
  7. Vue.js framework
  8. Kubernetes
  9. Social customer service
  10. HR consulting
  11. Google Cloud Platform
  12. Oculus Rift
  13. Microsoft Power BI
  14. Proposal writing
  15. Vuforia
  16. Instructional design
  17. Lesson plan writing
  18. Google App Engine API
  19. React.js framework
  20. TensorFlow
If you are familiar with any or some of these and have actual experiences working in these fields, then make sure you mention it in your profile. There are other skills that were not mentioned in the top 20s but may still be of high demand in Upwork so you can include them as well. 

 REMEMBER: Upwork only accepts new freelancers whose skills are new or belonging to not so many existing freelancers with the same skills set but are of high demand in its client pool. With this mind, data encoders and general administrative workers may not have a good chance of getting into Upwork. You may be a fast typist or someone with top-notch administrative skills, but with so many freelancers with that same skills already on Upwork, you don't stand a chance of getting admitted into the website.


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