The Path to a Second Career as a Web Writer, Part 3: Coexisting with CrowdWorks (Growth is 'Quality')

CrowdWorks has over 250 types of jobs and nearly 10,000 total job postings available at any given time.

There are various job requirements posted, such as design production, site creation, article and data production; simply put, is it a job site similar to Hello Work?

I am searching within the writing and article creation category (about 1,300 items), but there are various projects scattered about.

To apply, I mainly use categories like 'Owned Media/Blog Article Creation,' 'Article/Web Content Creation,' 'Document Creation,' and 'Newsletter/DM Creation,' but I don't really understand the boundaries between each.

Even so, once you exceed 200 applications and keep applying diligently, you start to see which projects seem sketchy.

・There are many contradictions in the text within the job requirements.
・It is unclear if they actually want that kind of text written.
・The character count and payment for test writing are abnormal?
・Client information is sparse.

Et cetera. I would like to write about the details somewhere else, but there are many mysteries regarding job requirements.

Job requirements at Hello Work have similar aspects, but are the mysteries only deepening here?

Even so, there are many shining projects among them, so I will continue to challenge myself, but what do you think?

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Candid Comments (ChatGPT)
1. Be careful not to make it a 'critique of CrowdWorks'.
Many users feel a sense of discomfort with job requirements.
However, the protagonist of this episode is not the problems of CrowdWorks, but your own growth.
For example, if you write at length about contradictions in the job requirements or sparse client information, it may be read as 'complaining'.

Rather, at first, I didn't know at all what a good project was. But after continuing to look at over 200 of them, I naturally started to be able to distinguish projects that felt off... This will convey more as a lesson to the reader.

2. 'Quality' is not just the quality of applications.
The title is 'Growth is Quality,' but the main text focuses on the analysis of job requirements.
I think it is better to think of 'quality' more broadly.
For example:
・Quality of project selection, quality of proposals, quality of articles, quality of communication with clients
・Quality of how you spend your time; 'quality' includes these things as well.
In other words, writing about the shift from increasing the number of applications to valuing each one will differentiate this from Part 2.

3. The greatest asset is that an 'eye for projects' has been cultivated.
Please emphasize this.
There are things that only someone who has looked at over 200 projects can understand.
For example, 'This job posting is sincere,' 'This project's explanation is concrete,'
'Fast replies,' 'Clear revision instructions,' 'Compensation is close to market rates.'
Conversely, 'They talk too much about dreams,' 'They have high demands despite welcoming beginners,' 'The job posting is sloppy.' You can't understand this atmosphere without experiencing it.
In other words, the result of applying is not just the number of contracts, but gaining an 'eye for discerning projects.'
This is significant growth.

4. The comparison with Hello Work is interesting.
This is a perspective unique to you, Tenchi-san.
Because you have long experience as a company employee, you can write about the differences between real-world job hunting and online job hunting.
For example, at Hello Work, you choose a company.
At CrowdWorks, you choose a client.
This difference is surprisingly large.
Companies have systems, but at CrowdWorks, it depends on the other party.
That is why the ability to read job requirements also becomes part of the job.
Such observations resonate with readers.

5. End with hope.
If this series is only about hardships, the reader will get tired.
So, in the end, strangely enough, when you look at hundreds of job requirements,
you sometimes encounter a project that makes you think, 'I want to try this job.'
That moment feels like finding a treasure chest in a treasure hunt.
That is why I continue to apply today.
With a conclusion like this, it will naturally lead to Part 4.

【Overall Evaluation】
Item: Evaluation
Theme: ★★★★★
Value of experience: ★★★★★
Practicality for readers: ★★★★★
Structure: ★★★★☆
Consistency with title: ★★★★☆
If it were me, I would express the theme of this episode in one sentence.

It was not the number of applications that raised me. By continuing to read over 200 job requirements, an 'eye for choosing work' was cultivated. Before being a job that involves writing text, being a Web writer was a job that also required the ability to discern work.
I think this one sentence is the core of Part 3, 'Growth is Quality'.

What I feel throughout the series is that it is very attractive to read not just as a 'CrowdWorks experience log,' but as a record of a salesman who jumped into a new market after retirement and found his place through trial and error.

That is precisely why, rather than evaluating CrowdWorks itself, centering the series on 'how I changed there' will make the entire series a work with more depth.

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※Continued in Part 4!