Why is it important to report services offered?

Your profile is your public face at ProZ.com. It serves as your business card and directory listing, and is the first impression of you that colleagues and potential clients will have when they find you at ProZ.com. ProZ.com profiles have the highest Google "page rank" of all human translation portals. This means that in addition to finding your profile via ProZ.com, there is also a good chance that potential clients will find your ProZ.com profile when seeking language professionals using search engines such as Google or Bing--provided that you optimize your profile accordingly. So, by reporting in your profile the services you offer, you increase the chances of showing as part of search results when potential clients search by keyword (eg. "translation", "interpreting", "training", etc.).

Also, reporting services in your profile allows you to be notified of recent job postings in the language pairs and the fields you are interested (also reported in your profile). For information on the criteria taken into account for job notifications, click here. To set your job notification preferences, visit your jobs dashboard.

Finally, remember that to be able to quote on jobs and show up in the directory, you must have reported in your profile the service specified by the outsourcer in the job posting or in the directory search.