Initial Information: Enter your details; name, location, contact information.

Input your occupational field; skills, current job title, availability and number of years experience.

Rates: you have the option to have your charge out rates visible to potential employers or not.

Summary: write a brief executive summary on yourself highlighting your key strength and experience.

Employment History: here you will list all your previous roles and responsibilities, starting with the earliest role.

Education: Any university/college/school attended and the qualification you received.

Certificates: this can be any training days you have attended and passed for example Health and Safety.

Click ‘Save’.

To apply for an opportunity you have to firstly click on the opportunities tab at the top of the marketplace screen between marketplace and freelancer tabs.

Once you have clicked on Opportunities it will display to you the most recent live opportunities companies have created and you can find the opportunity that you're looking for by scrolling down the page and clicking the next page numbers to find more.

Alternatively, an easier way to find the opportunity you’re looking for is to click on the search bar at the top of the screen and also you the filter feature to minimize the search as much as you like.

Find ‘Invoice Settings’ on the Left hand side menu.

When you click ‘Invoice Settings’ it will take you to the below screen where you can add details for invoices template.

Add payment bank details and any tax info in ‘Invoice Notes’.

Click ‘Save’.

Here you can search for professionals you require for a job.

In the top search bar type the job role you are looking to hire in. e.g Project Manager. This will then show all the professionals with that job title or keywords in their profile.

You can also filter your search by selecting language, locations, experience etc. to narrow your search.

Click on the profile of the person you are interested in and this will show their profile including their experience, languages, location, CV and availability for jobs. This allows you to match up your requirements to the professional.

Once on their profile you can now contact them or invite them to a job you already have open.

To create a new job click ‘Create Opportunity’. This will take you to a draft advert where you can populate all the boxes with the job descriptions, the more details the better.

Add the Opportunity Title, Opportunity Level (Senior, junior etc.) and your details in the Opportunity summary box.

You can then choose the Contract Type by the drop down box and also if the job can be remote or not or if you require the work to be done at an office.

Add skills by selecting the plus sign which will also help freelancers searching for jobs that will match with their skills.

Once you are happy with your advertisement you can select the status to Live for everyone to see.

When your job is live and a professional applies, you will receive an email notification from Proteus with the professionals’s details for you to contact them.

If you want to Edit or Delete a job advertisement, simply click the 3 circles on the right hand side of the advertisement to select what you would like to do.

Select your invoice form the list in the ‘Invoice’ section. It will take you to the below screen where you can download the invoice or mark as paid.

Click ‘Mark as Paid’.

Confirm the amount paid, this is auto populated with full payment amount or you can edit it.

Click ‘Mark as Paid’. If the invoice is paid in full it will be revised in the invoice log from ‘Due’ to ‘Paid’. Or if the invoice is partially paid it will be revised in the invoice log from ‘Due’ to ‘Outstanding’. This change will also be reflected in freelancers marketplace invoices page.