Ask HN: What is the best way to find remote full time work?
Are there any tools that make the search easier?
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I make a site called https://remoteok.io where I collect most new remote jobs from traditional job boards, as well as have fully-remote companies post directly.
You can also set up email alerts on there to get notified first when a new remote job appears in your specific niche (like DevOps).
Hope it helps and let me know if you have feedback.
You can also set up email alerts on there to get notified first when a new remote job appears in your specific niche (like DevOps).
Hope it helps and let me know if you have feedback.
I like the site, but It keeps crashing the chrome browser on Android unfortunately.
As they say: "Looking for a job should be a full time job", or in other words: put your full time and effort in it. When not applying for job - study. When you are applying - do your research about every company you send your mail to. That way even with shittiest tools you can have success. Good luck!
Yep that's the approach I took when I started my job search a year ago. Took notes on every potential employer, managed my interview schedule very carefully, made sure always to have my phone with me. It worked very well and within 6 months I got like 20-30 really good paying jobs at reputable and respectable companies, and several of them were remote (or mostly remote) positions. So it's doable if you make a point of it.
The best jobs come when you have an in. Someone refers you, someone you know is a manager inside, etc.
You get ins by building your network. Meet people, talk to them, make what you do public. This can be easier in a big city.
But, if you aren't in a big city, one strategy: find a Slack channel for a big city nearish to you and hang out in there. Get to know people. Demonstrate competence.
The Chicago Tech Slack is a great example of a place that would be great for this.
Jobs are posted all the time in there. There's a guy in there who does job placement services and I got added to his rolodex just by existing inside of the Slack.
Another option: participate in Hacker News. I got one job by saying "Yeah I spent a year traveling and doing remote Django work." To which someone responded "Are you still interested in doing remote Django work? I need someone."
Finding work is "all luck", but increasing your "luck surface area" by exposing yourself to more serendipitous events can systematize that "all luck".
You get ins by building your network. Meet people, talk to them, make what you do public. This can be easier in a big city.
But, if you aren't in a big city, one strategy: find a Slack channel for a big city nearish to you and hang out in there. Get to know people. Demonstrate competence.
The Chicago Tech Slack is a great example of a place that would be great for this.
Jobs are posted all the time in there. There's a guy in there who does job placement services and I got added to his rolodex just by existing inside of the Slack.
Another option: participate in Hacker News. I got one job by saying "Yeah I spent a year traveling and doing remote Django work." To which someone responded "Are you still interested in doing remote Django work? I need someone."
Finding work is "all luck", but increasing your "luck surface area" by exposing yourself to more serendipitous events can systematize that "all luck".
This repo https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job contains plenty of resources
For those on mobile, this is the file you are looking for in that repo.
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/mast...
The easiest way is to have an office job and slowly switch to remote. Once you have remote experience, it's much easier to get a fully remote position from a job board or connections.
i second this approach, get an office job, prove yourself to be valuable, request remote, I've done this successfully twice.
I send out a newsletter every 2 weeks with a hand curated list of remote jobs which I think are interesting - https://remotejobsclub.com
You could also look at the popular job aggregators like remoteok, weworkremotely... etc
You could also look at the popular job aggregators like remoteok, weworkremotely... etc
How is the conversion on the leave-site popup?
To be honest, I have no idea. I should really add some tracking, but haven't got around to it yet!
I find remote work by simply demanding it, but be willing to do office visits if needed. If the hiring manager likes you, they’ll come around. Also I find not budging on rate because of working remotely is a better look. Don’t be desperate. Be Patient.
I had luck in the past being a solid member of a dev team and asking for more remote time. Finding good devs is really hard and a remote one is better than a new one.
This is great advice. If you're in demand, it's usually straightforward to turn an in-person job into a remote job.
I found my current job (remote, full time) on https://weworkremotely.com/. It's been a little over two years so I'm not sure how the site is now, but at the time it seemed pretty decent. Maybe a little low traffic compared to non-remote boards, but I think that's to be expected.
Is working remotely something you put on your resume? I am currently a remote intern for a company that would be a Fortune 500 if it did not domesticate to Switzerland. I am graduating in next month and will move into an office based full-time position, but remote work does sound great. Is it in the realm of possibility for a new graduate?
I keep a list of 50+ sites that focus on remote-first (or remote-only) jobs:
https://userinterfacing.com/here-is-the-full-list-of-my-50-r...
https://userinterfacing.com/here-is-the-full-list-of-my-50-r...
upwork.com - I am a remote developer for over a decade now, started working remote when was still odesk.com in Dec 2007. Best decision ever, I have my own hours, bid on what interests me, get to have time with kids all day.
Like most jobs it's who you know, start asking around/working in your network.