Working in oDesk (UpWork.com)

Working in oDesk

Upwork.com (formerly oDesk) offers the world’s largest, most comprehensive and fastest-growing online workplace. (please contact online support before registering on this website.)

Click on “Sign up” link at the top right corner of the website. This will lead you to a screen like below.

In this case, you are here to find work, so click on “Contractors start here”.

 To fill up the registration form, you will be asked to provide a unique username to identify you on your system. 
You need to provide a valid e-mail address. Also you have to create a password which should be a combination of letters and numeric.
Click on “Get Started” button to complete the registration. You will be redirected to a screen like below.

You see the box in yellow on that page? First step is to “Verify your E-mail”. By this time you should have received an e-mail from ODesk team
 in the address you provided. Go to your mailbox. E-mail we received is shown below.

Complete the verification by clicking on the link in the e-mail. You will be redirected to a new oDesk window
So you have successfully completed your registration and you are now an oDesker.

We are here to complete our profile, so we can use second menu bar, click on “Edit Account Details”  from the drop down menu obtained after clicking 'Profile'.

Below shown is the account details fill up form. First one is choosing a Display Name, you can choose either one of them which ever you like. Second one is “Picture or logo”. You can upload any picture which is less than 500kb as your profile picture by clicking browse button next to the image. Having a profile picture is not necessary. Fill out all other fields. Then click on “Save button”.

You will be redirected to a screen like below.

You can apply for work now.

Click on “Find Jobs” from the tab of “Find Work” menu. Choose a job from the list of jobs given.

You will directed to the page below. Click on “Apply to this Job” and you will be directed to the next page.

Fill out the details needed in the below form and type “ACCEPT” in the below box to enable the “Accept and Apply to this Job” button. Click on “Accept and Apply to this Job” to apply for the job.

If you have completed a project successfully, you will be credited the contract amount in your oDesk account. For withdrawing money, go to Wallet.

First you need to confirm your tax payer status. So select the “W-8BEN Foreign Status Certification” from the first yellow box “Please confirm your taxpayer status. Here you have to do is that you have to type, “ACCEPT” in the below text box as shown below and Click on “ ACCEPT” button and you are done.

There is so many types of withdrawal methods. We will mention Local Funds Transfer (LFT) and Paypal methods. To activate the LFT, Click on Set up now. You will be redirected to next page.

You can view your earnings and other income details on “Transaction History” tab. oDesk will show every transaction you had with the clients in this page.

You can withdraw the amount from “Withdraw” tab. You can choose one withdrawal method and Click on the Withdraw button which only gets enabled after choosing the withdrawal method and the amount you choose.

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