An old colleague of mine, who'd worked for an LA-based tech company for 10 years, went to hand in his resignation. He was moving to Charlotte so he could be with his girlfriend.<p>His boss begged him to stay -- he could even work remotely. My friend took the deal. He lives in Charlotte now and flies to LA every 2 or 3 months.<p>The best place to look for remote jobs is to talk to people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.
In all honesty, I work part time on remote jobs. I have a lot of debt I need to pay off, family medical.<p>I have for the 2 years, applied to 100+ jobs a week. When I don't have work or when I find my current work teetering off, I sit down every Monday, go to 40+ job sites I have collected over time and just apply to as many as possible within the 2 hours or so.<p>Its hit or miss, but I tend to find something within the month, someone looking for part time remote work.<p>I am always looking, but since its part time, I get filtered out a lot due to employers wanting full time folks.<p>Just Hustle. Keep Hustling. Don't stop hustling. It helps me.
Remote work is the #1 perk/benefit for employees now. It's no wonder it's hard to land a remote job because everybody wants them.<p>The focus should be on increasing your skills, making them more unique and super necessary for employers.<p>And then use the relationships you have already (eg current employer or clients) to start working remotely.
I've gotten two remote jobs off the HN "Who's hiring?" thread. It can be a bit frustrating. I applied to every single remote posting on the thread for 2 months in a row. So I guess that's one job per month (maybe I was lucky or unlucky who knows).<p>Following are some of my impressions but they are subjective and perhaps a bit speculative.<p>Generally I've found that the attitude of most US companies is that if they are willing to hire remote, they are usually only interested in hiring candidates inside the US - even if they are a native English speaker (I was an American living in Vietnam). This is very different than the attitude that I've gotten talking to a companies in say ... Singapore or Germany.<p>Another thing that seems to happen is that some companies seem to throw the REMOTE OK tag to their posting without considering whether or not everyone on their engineering team is actually ok with working with a remote employee. I've done several interviews with teams that were REMOTE OK but had no existing remote employees. Usually it only takes one person to veto a hire. That's something to think about if they are looking at both local and remote candidates. Unless there is a really compelling reason to hire remote, usually they will go local (makes sense). You might not even <i>want</i> to work with one of these companies because they aren't set up for remote work... communication takes a bit more work from all team members - not just the remote ones.<p>Overall I've had a much more positive experience with the HN: "Who's hiring?"" thread than anywhere else. I think this is because the first point of contact is often an engineer and not an HR person. My resume is a bit odd and doesn't have a BRAND_NAME_SILICON_VALLEY_COMPANY or a BRAND_NAME_UNIVERSITY so it bounces right off the HR department. It's very helpful to be able to talk technology with someone in the initial conversation. If I can get a knowledgeable front-end engineer to look at some of my previous work, then I usually get to the coding round.<p>I had no luck with any of the remote hiring sites: remoteok.io or weworkremotely.com. YMMV<p>Ultimately getting a remote job seems to come down to:<p>1. Having some kind of portfolio to demonstrate your competence.
2. Doing as many interiews as possible. Also the more interviews you do the better you get at it.<p>Good luck!
You can filter for remote jobs on stackoverflow:<p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=i&l=Remote&d=20&u=Km" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=i&l=Remote&d=20&u=Km</a>
I'm not sure if there really is a best place to look for remote jobs. It depends. I personally don't like aggregators as it's so easy to overlook a job post. I prefer visiting individual job boards. As a side note, I do agree with some of the comments in this thread. The best way is of course to talk to people you know and have worked with in the past. Meetups and events can also be a great place. Perhaps it won't land you a remote job today, but it may in the future.<p>What kind of remote jobs are you looking for? Tech or non-tech? I've generally found weworkremotely and the HN hiring thread to be among the best. If you're interested in remote jobs at startups, AngelList have a special collection for you <a href="https://angel.co/job-collections/remote/" rel="nofollow">https://angel.co/job-collections/remote/</a><p>It might be worth your time to look through <a href="http://nodesk.co/remote-work/" rel="nofollow">http://nodesk.co/remote-work/</a> for a collection of remote job boards (it's a list so visit them all and save the ones you find useful) as well as <a href="http://workintech.io/" rel="nofollow">http://workintech.io/</a> (job boards specifically geared for tech jobs).<p>Let me know what you're looking for and perhaps I can help point you in the right direction.
Many I know with remote positions had worked at the company previously and then went to move or quit, and was given permission to work remotely. Obviously one needs to be an effective employee for that to be the case, and not mind occasionally traveling.<p>Otherwise you could seek employment at a place known for having primarily remote workers.<p>Contract work and freelance is also easy to remote.
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