 Don't be like everyone else. Be yourself. Be your own true self. Be the best you that you can be today I'm here to tell you that you should not be like everyone else You should try to be a bit more original This goes back to some advice that I keep hearing and in fact that I've given myself and so I want to talk about it I want to qualify it Unfortunately a lot of people when they're creating their online profile and when they are you know signing up for up work or pros or translators cafe or Making their own website or something along those lines basically they have their profile and their CV their their photo whatever information They're not sure what to write. They're not sure how to structure it They're not sure what to say what not to say what to leave out what to put up front etc So what do they do they go look at what other people have done and that's very natural if you're up on pros You go look at other profiles. They're like, well, how did other people do it? What did other people say? How do they word it? How do they structure it? What seems to be the norm and if you have no idea what to do then yet you can look at what other people do and kind of get an idea Unfortunately, what happens is say you'll look at ten different profiles and you'll notice nine of them have done this And you'll say, okay, that must be the standard way to do it. And so you do that Unfortunately, we do this a lot without thinking because we assume I just joined this place These other people have been working for a while. They must know something. I don't so that's the way it should be done But very often more often than you would think if you are looking at ten different profiles And nine of them did something and one of them didn't that one person is the one who stands out So you really need to evaluate if you're looking at a profile and all of them have listed their languages in a certain order I've done things in a certain way except for one. Maybe this one forgot Maybe this one was lazy. Maybe this one just didn't finish their profile or something like that in which case It's fine. But maybe this one person actually stands out. Maybe they did it on purpose and maybe that's why They structured it this way in order to be different The fact is when you come from the point of view of someone who's hiring and I can say this because I've hired many times Of pros of upwork of other places like that You end up getting a lot of people who send in their resume who apply for the job Any given job I get it'll be at least 20 to 30 people Usually more. So if someone is sifting through 2030 50 even 100 different profiles in order to figure out who to hire for this job Then they start blending in all together And after a while even after I whittle it down to say the top 10 people that I want to hire I don't remember their names. I don't necessarily remember where they're from or the details They said in their CV, but there will be something that stands out And many times it's that one different thing So when you are looking at other profiles, obviously if you're not sure what to do And you don't want to have an empty profile and you want you don't want to do anything wrong either On the other hand, you don't you shouldn't always be asking yourself. What did everyone else do? But you should be asking yourself What stands out when I'm looking at 10 different profiles, which did I notice first and why did I notice it? What was it that stood out? What was it that caught my eye and it'll usually be something maybe it's something in the picture Maybe it's something in their title. Maybe it's something that they say. Maybe they say, hey, I'm a translator by day, but I'm a DJ and hip-hop artist by night or I don't know something along those lines If you can have something that helps you stand out Then that very often will will can make the difference Obviously if you have a really crappy work history or something like that Then then that's what you need to be working on But if you do have a decent history, if you've been working and if you've been Accumulating some some experience and you want to stand out Then you need to find a way to do it because unfortunately if people are going to be sifting through 50 different profiles They're not going to remember you even if you do a good job many times That's not enough because they you won't stick in their mind and they might overlook you or they'll see Five seven other people who also did a very good job and they don't know who to pick And someone who has that spark who has a little bit of personality who stands out a bit That could be the winning thing so when you do What they they call it benchmarking where you look at other profiles you look at other people you look at your competitors And you try to see what they're doing and you see how you measure up compared to them It's not always good to try to do that to try to measure up compared to them Sometimes you want to stand out of it and if you find somebody else who does stand out ask yourself why Don't do the exact same thing because then you'll be exactly like them But hopefully this will spark give you a spark and give you some ideas as to what to do I know that i've mentioned in the past in my course and i'm sharing videos as well That if you don't know what to do look at other people's profiles and it gives you an idea of what to do And this is true when you're first starting out If you have no idea how to structure your profile then yeah check out 10 other profiles It give it'll give you an idea and then you can do what you need But at that point you need to say okay now my profile looks like everyone else is now I need to do something that makes it stand out of it And at that point it's going to have to be you with your creativity because if I tell you what it is And everyone does the same thing then it won't be original will it but Have something that helps you stand out Hopefully in a good way But even just so in a way that when people go through it and they'll be like oh, yeah, that was the hip-hop artist That was the dj and and it's something that sticks and it gives you a personality and it Gives you a reason to make it to the final round Let's say of people because right away. They'll remember you rather than just Forgetting you because you blend in into everyone else's profile So I just wanted to point this out and point out some of the nuances that can come out when you're trying to Benchmark when you're trying to create your profile because yeah, you do want to make sure you've Crossed all the teas you've dotted all the eyes and and you've done everything correctly And for that you want to look at other profiles But you also want to be different and you don't want to be like everyone else Anyway, I hope you find stuff like this useful if you did find it useful Please don't forget to click like because that's the best way for me to find out if you find something useful or not Please don't forget to subscribe And I'll see you in the next video where we'll talk about freelancing We'll talk about freelance translation and other things associated with it. Okay. Thanks. Bye