This site is painfully slow to use, it takes forever to get anything done. As a new freelancer your only options are to bid insanely low on new projects - so that you make less than $5/hour for your work, or pay freelancer a ton of fees to get your "certifications" and boost your bids. As someone from a developed country, you can't possibly undercut freelancers from countries with a lower cost of living, so you can't price competitively. This also makes employers undervalue the work you do, so they end up expecting way more work for completely unfair prices. Awful site, would recommend to no one. Don't waste your time.