I've been thinking about trying to start a remote job board for devs in Canada. Would you be interested in posting there? The problem is, I'm not sure I could come up with enough jobs to keep it filled.
Ask HN: Where do you find great remote developers?
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#12I haven't researched you, but a good piece of advice: Please be honest with your job advertisements. A friend of mine from college was telling me about his company's job posts one day, keep in mind they were a small company that makes b2b apps. They were looking for a guy that had 5 years of experience with the Swift programming language. When I questioned him about that, he suggested they wanted people who developed it at Apple...
what?
It's ok if your company or app isn't going to change the world. Seriously, that's fine. Even respectable! As a programmer myself, I just can't take companies seriously when they ask for the moon from someone, to write them a run-of-the-mill android app or whatever.
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#13As someone that has actively looked for remote jobs, I'm always surprised with how few companies that are open to remote actually publicize that information. They'll both not post jobs on remote hiring sites, and will say a role is based in New York, LA, etc. and only deep in the description will say that they encourage remote workers as well.
This is a major plus for certain folks, so I sometimes wonder if companies don't realize it's such a big selling point.
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#14here is the link
twitter.com/remote_ok
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#15There are a number of remote only job boards like weworkremotely.com finding all of those and posting there is a good start.
Good remote jobs are highly valued by developers who have worked remotely in the past.
I have been working remotely for 22 years, and each new job is a bit of a herculean task to find.
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#16At the risk of sounding presumptuous, I'm considering a job change myself and will be prioritizing remote opportunities. I didn't see any contact information in your HN profile or on your website or I would have contacted you there. If you are interested in talking my contact information is available in my HN profile.
More generally, consider remote specific job boards like Remote OK (https://remoteok.io/) or We Work Remotely (https://weworkremotely.com/).
As others have mentioned, StackOverflow's job board is also a good resource. You can tag your posting as being remote.
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#171) pay well
2) offer max flexibility
3) pay bonuses
4) make sure you handle all client problems
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#18Might be a very dumb sounding answer but money is usually where it is: Pay well and you will magically have them :) Even though I haven't really considered pure remote jobs, I have always at least peeked at recruiter mails that come in with an impressive number as an opener.
Having been working remotely on and off for the last few years, I would tend to agree.
I’m flexible where I work, so if I can earn more working in an office I’ll do it - I’m not taking a 40% paycut just to work remotely.
As a company you are already saving by not paying employment taxes (most remote workers are contractors on paper) and not having an office, so don’t skimp more by paying your team a low wage.
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#19Cold outreach. Github Advanced Search is your friend.
E.g. query for devs with at least one javascript repository (substitute whatever tech you're targeting), > 5 total repos (show they're fairly active on GH), with > 10 followers.
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=language%3Ajavasc...
Search documentation https://help.github.com/articles/searching-users/
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#20At the risk of sounding presumptuous, I'm considering a job change myself and will be prioritizing remote opportunities. I didn't see any contact information in your HN profile or on your website or I would have contacted you there. If you are interested in talking my contact information is available in my HN profile. More generally, consider remote specific job boards like Remote OK ( https://remoteok.io/ ) or We Wo…
I didn't want to presume myself, but I've now updated my profile. I'll reach out to you directly too, thanks!
We usually advertise on both of those but didn't have much luck some years ago with StackOverflow, but maybe we'll give it a second try.