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Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by jomkr »

Here's what I do. Find employees using LinkedIn, find their GitHub profile and any projects they're doing that I find interesting. Create a good pull-request.

After it's accepted, I send a follow-up saying I'm looking for work and asking if they'd pass on my CV.

I only do PR for projects that interest me anyway, so it's not time-wasting as I'd do Open Source work anyway.

This approach hasn't actually got me a remote-job yet, but I think that's more down to my lack of interviewing technique.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by navalsaini »

aantix wrote: post #14

Pro Tip : If the first person from the company that you talk to is from HR, you're doing it wrong. I wrote up my process in an article on Medium "How to Get a Remote Job, Even When Remote Isn’t Advertised" https://medium.com/@aantix/how-to-get-a-remote-job-even-when...

Nice short article.

Its a bit difficult to do that same if one is from a developing country though (flying is expensive :-)). A more interesting problem to crack.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by drinchev »

> Upwork, PeoplePerHour and Freelancer are great places to secure remote work. What you’ll find may be more short-term, but that doesn’t mean it can’t evolve into something permanent (if that’s what you’re looking for).

Scratch that! Those platforms are useless even for freelancers.

Best advice that worked for me is to apply for any job and during the interview process you just say that you will work remote and come to the office once per XX amount of days.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by blakenomad »

jcadam wrote: post #20

Most of the companies I've interviewed with will only consider remote workers who have prior experience working remotely. I just don't know how to demonstrate to employers that I have the self-discipline to actually work if I'm not forced to go into an office full of distractions every day. In any case, after yet another round of rejections for (mostly remote) gigs, I've given up on getting out of my crappy job for t…

I had the same problem initially. No one would take me on board because of the 'lack of experience'.

A Workaround is to pick up a few freelance gigs on the side using Upwork, Freelancer (or similar) and then leverage that as you have technically been working with clients remotely.

That's how I got around it

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by kilroy123 »

sarchertech wrote: post #13
pgeorgep wrote: post #2

I found a remote job this year on https://angel.co/ This article seems like an excellent resource, but it doesn't get into the drive you need to find a remote job (at least early in your career like me). When I started looking for remote jobs online, it took me over six months to finally land the right job. What articles like this don't emphasize enough is when you're applying for remote jobs, you're competing agains…

I've always worked remotely. You're not really competing with the entire global talent pool if you're applying for an American company. First, most companies will have a time zone limit. 2. Companies will require that you can communicate in English extremely well. 3. You need access to a reliable electric grid and reliable fast internet (the firewall rules out mainland China completely--1/5 of the world). 4. Many com…

I agree you're not competing globally as an American. However, you are competing with all developers in the US!

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by albertgoeswoof »

jomkr wrote: post #21

Here's what I do. Find employees using LinkedIn, find their GitHub profile and any projects they're doing that I find interesting. Create a good pull-request. After it's accepted, I send a follow-up saying I'm looking for work and asking if they'd pass on my CV. I only do PR for projects that interest me anyway, so it's not time-wasting as I'd do Open Source work anyway. This approach hasn't actually got me a remote-…

> This approach hasn't actually got me a remote-job yet

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by mcone »

jcadam wrote: post #20

Most of the companies I've interviewed with will only consider remote workers who have prior experience working remotely. I just don't know how to demonstrate to employers that I have the self-discipline to actually work if I'm not forced to go into an office full of distractions every day. In any case, after yet another round of rejections for (mostly remote) gigs, I've given up on getting out of my crappy job for t…

> Most of the companies I've interviewed with will only consider remote workers who have prior experience working remotely.

I also ran into this. What helped me was being able to point to side projects that I had successfully completed. From what I can tell, what employers really want to know is that you can work on your own, from your own house. Side projects help with that. It also helps if you can work from home 1-2 days a week at your current job. Then you can point to that as proof that you work from home 20% of the time.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by johan_larson »

jcadam wrote: post #20

Most of the companies I've interviewed with will only consider remote workers who have prior experience working remotely. I just don't know how to demonstrate to employers that I have the self-discipline to actually work if I'm not forced to go into an office full of distractions every day. In any case, after yet another round of rejections for (mostly remote) gigs, I've given up on getting out of my crappy job for t…

Couchbase is happy to hire remote workers, even without previous remote experience.

I've worked for Couchbase for a year and a half now, and it's a nice place. We're a mature startup building a NoSQL database, headed for IPO soon (within a year or two).

And we're hiring: https://www.couchbase.com/careers/open-positions

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by sarchertech »

kilroy123 wrote: post #26
sarchertech wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always worked remotely. You're not really competing with the entire global talent pool if you're applying for an American company. First, most companies will have a time zone limit. 2. Companies will require that you can communicate in English extremely well. 3. You need access to a reliable electric grid and reliable fast internet (the firewall rules out mainland China completely--1/5 of the world). 4. Many com…

I agree you're not competing globally as an American. However, you are competing with all developers in the US!

You're competing with all developers looking for remote work. Which isn't close to all.

Then, once you have remote experience, in most cases you're really only competing with other developers who have remote experience.

It's hard to get a remote job right out of college. But if you're good at your job, and have 5+ years of experience, with at least some remote experience, it's not that hard.

Certainly easier than "competing with ever developer in the US" makes it seem.

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