How to Sign Up oDesk Account

For create an account in oDesk, go to www.odesk.com .

Here you will find two portion for create an account. 1) “Want to hire? Post a job!” 2) “Want a job? Sign up!”. Here is the first portion for clients and second portion for contractors. So since you’re a freelancer, so click “Want a job? Sign up!“. Now you will see a form for making an account.

Here you can Sign Up using Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub and Stack Overflow. Or you can Sign Up by fill out the form properly. Here I’m showing you how to Sign Up by fill out the form. Fill out the fields for First Name, Last Name, email, Country, ID, Password and Captcha, then click Get Started. This will create your Account and you’ll see a page as shown below.

Now go to your email which used for create oDesk account. A message will come from “oDesk Support Team” for verify the account.

Open the message; you will see a link as shown below, click the link.

After completed the account verification, a success message will come as shown below. Now click “Let’s Get to Work” button and enter your account.

Now end of the process of making your Account. At this moment you will see the page as shown below. Areas marked in red see here, 1) You are being asked to make your Profile Complete 2) The 0% in your Profile has been completed 3) You are allowed to apply for only two jobs per weeks.

You can’t apply for the job after creating an account, there is a lot more work to do. Such: to complete the profile as nice, complete the identity verification, to take few tests for evidence of your skills, adding financial info for withdraw your earnings. We will finish all step by step. So far today, Next phase I’ll discuss about oDesk profile completion. For more learning you may read blogs below. Hopefully it will be useful.