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Ask HN: What's your strategy to land fully remote jobs?

#1
There are so many interesting companies out there offering remote/distributed roles, but I'm not sure how to approach them.

Do you apply directly on their careers page? Do you find recruiters on linkedin and connect with them? Do you cold email founders?

What's your strategy? How did you land your fully remote job?

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#3
As a developer, almost all the positions people contact me about are remote. Some are hybrid. Very few are physically on-site anymore. Just one person’s observation.

Are you being contacted for positions? If not, maybe your challenge is being noticed by the people who would want to hire you.

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#7
Tbh the answer is the same as for a non remote position. Networking.

It helps if you're noticeable on job sites, but there's a lot of bad signal/noise ratio there. I answered 2 queries in the last 2 months because they were interesting, but both positions turned out to not be really remote when I started talking.

Also, it helps to be already employed so you can be picky and take your time :)

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#9
I used Indeed to find both of my jobs. You can filter jobs by Remote.

When I was working full time in a completely different career field I found a part time remote job through Dice. I think I found that one by doing a Google search and not actually on Dice.

I'm assuming you are talking about developer roles. As others have said most developer roles seem to be remote friendly these days.

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