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Client approved the work then opened a dispute three weeks later, how do these actually get decided

Disputes are decided on the evidence that exists inside the platform, which is the whole reason the platform exists. Written milestone approvals in the platform messages are strong, and the fact that they approved each one at the time is the single most useful thing you have. Pull every message, every delivery timestamp and every approval into one document now, in order, before you write anything else, because the case is usually won by whoever presents a clean timeline.

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Two reviews and nothing since, how do you get past nobody hiring you because nobody has hired you

What moved the needle for me was three small, fast, low risk jobs in a single narrow category rather than three unrelated ones, because the reviews then said the same thing three times and read as a specialism instead of as a resume. Recency matters more than volume in my experience, and a review from last week beats twenty from two years ago. After the third one in the same category the invites started arriving instead of me chasing.

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