As a freelancer to need to be updated with the news, checking news emails is good but not compulsory, as a service provider is mostly recommended.

Update the basic details in the profile

Click on the profile icon, then give your professional details, every information must be accurate for your account to be approved, and adding more information in the future is allowed if there is a need to do that.

Details On Your Specialization

You must select your specialization e.g.: Graphics, Web and application Designer" just to use that as a sample and you must select some categories of the skills which you are engaged in, something like " Application Development" you have the opportunity to choose 4 categories of job, but you may select 1-2 that are closely related to your professional skills.

Skills

Your skills should be selected from the list which is drop-down; it is advisable to choose like 5-6 professional skills mostly related to your main specialization.

Experience level

You need to select your experience level(Beginner/Intermediate/ Expert) these are what makes recommendation of clients to the category of level that will determine the level of payment, Upwork recommends $15 per hour job for the freelancer with beginners level, ranges from $15 to $ 30 intermediate level and $30 and above are meant for the Expert, be open and sincere, if you are just starting is better to choose an entry-level position because clients do agree with them even when the quality is job delivery is below the standard. You can choose the intermediate or Expert if you have handled many projects of such and you have great confidence in your professional skills.