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Ask HN: What is the best way to find remote full time work?

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Are there any tools that make the search easier?

I 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.

As 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.

The best jobs come when you have an in. Someone refers you, someone you know is a manager inside, etc.

You get ins by building your network. Meet people, talk to them, make what you do public. This can be easier in a big city.

But, if you aren't in a big city, one strategy: find a Slack channel for a big city nearish to you and hang out in there. Get to know people. Demonstrate competence.

The Chicago Tech Slack is a great example of a place that would be great for this.

Jobs are posted all the time in there. There's a guy in there who does job placement services and I got added to his rolodex just by existing inside of the Slack.

Another option: participate in Hacker News. I got one job by saying "Yeah I spent a year traveling and doing remote Django work." To which someone responded "Are you still interested in doing remote Django work? I need someone."

Finding work is "all luck", but increasing your "luck surface area" by exposing yourself to more serendipitous events can systematize that "all luck".

This 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...

The 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.

I 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!

I find remote work by simply demanding it, but be willing to do office visits if needed. If the hiring manager likes you, they’ll come around. Also I find not budging on rate because of working remotely is a better look. Don’t be desperate. Be Patient.

I 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.

I 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.

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?

I keep a list of 50+ sites that focus on remote-first (or remote-only) jobs:

https://userinterfacing.com/here-is-the-full-list-of-my-50-r...

upwork.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.

Like most jobs it's who you know, start asking around/working in your network.

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