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?
Ask HN: What is the best way to find remote full time work?
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#12I 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.
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#13I 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.
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#14The 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.
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#15As 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.
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#16I 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.
I like the site, but It keeps crashing the chrome browser on Android unfortunately.
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#17This 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...
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#18I 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
How is the conversion on the leave-site popup?
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to find remote full time work?
#19I 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
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!
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#20upwork.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.