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GoWFH: Find and list verified Work From Home and Remote jobs from top companies

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152 pointstimuster25 comments

One job is listed "as of now remote"

a job where you telecommute during the pandemic and then are expected to show up in a month or two is not remote. It is onsite, and should not be listed as remote.

It looks like the recruiter updated the title after it was published to the website. I'll go ahead and add a system to ensure this doesn't happen again. Thank you!

Are there other sources you're using besides LinkedIn? I ask because every job listing I clicked on is taking me to LinkedIn as the next step to learn more details and apply. I realize that you're probably just getting this off the ground and leveraging LinkedIn's data, but I'd trust and recommend a service like this where there are native listings and not just an aggregated wrapper over LinkedIn. Why not just use LinkedIn to begin with?

With the post a resume feature it's not clear how that data is being used to connect me to "the right recruiters" and makes me wonder if this is just a way for your service to collect and sell my resume and others to recruiters as data vs. matching resume content to the jobs directly then notifying me.

Also, if you have other sources for jobs besides LinkedIn, native or otherwise, I'd trust this service more if the links/listings had a LinkedIn (or wherever) label or icon to let me know the source before clicking through to the details.

Other than the concerns about LinkedIn as your only source of content and how your service is using my resume data, I think the site itself is easy to use, understand and ultimately could be a useful tool in finding remote work.

Hi! First of all, THANK YOU so much for your feedback!

No, LinkedIn is not the only source and it's probably just a coincidence that all jobs that you ran into were on LinkedIn :) I'm currently pulling data from a bunch of 3rd party APIs. The ultimate goal is to make it as easy as clicking 'Apply' to send your resume through to the recruiter.

When you send a resume, a Machine Learning model essentially does OCR on the PDF (or whatever file format you uploaded) and tries to automatically generate tags for skills, positions, etc. that might be suitable.

If a job listing opens up that has a solid match (currently verified by a human-team), both you and a recruiter get an email - only after you agree will your resume be shared with the recruiter.

I should probably add all of these details to the website though :)

I'll work on adding the capability for the listings to tell you the original source (LinkedIn, etc.)

Thanks again! Let me know if you think of anything else that can be improved! :)

Looks like it could be useful in the current climate.

You might like to consider whether allowing the linked job details to be hidden on walled sites like LinkedIn is harming your signal/noise ratio. Opinions among the good people I know are pretty divided about even the more credible sites, some arguing they can still be a useful source of good leads, others that they're just recruiter spam magnets and more trouble than they are worth. Anecdotally, as one of the latter group, if I'd been looking right now then I'd just have had a poor first experience of your site and probably wouldn't bother bookmarking.

Hi! So the plan is to include job details on the primary site (i.e. gowfh.com) itself, but if I'm hearing you right, the website shouldn't list jobs that require you to sign in to be able to see the job details and/or apply - right?

That might be an improvement. Those kinds of listings are of no immediate value to someone who doesn't use whatever site they redirect to. More than that, though, they could make your site look like just another middleman trying to muscle in between viewers and the real source. The web is full of low quality sites like that, and usually they're somewhere around the clickbait to scam part of the scale, which I assume isn't the impression you're hoping to create.

This is just MHO, of course, and keep in mind that I'm not actually in your target audience at this stage in my career. I might simply be past the point where I'm willing to play those games and lucky enough to have better options by now, so take anything I'm writing here with a large pinch of salt.

Shameless plug, I wrote a super short yet helpful book for companies thrown into remote:

https://www.emergencyremote.com/EmergencyRemote.pdf

Yay! This looks awesome! Would you be interested in doing a guest post and/or interview on GoWFH's blog?

Annoyingly quite a few say "Worldwide" until you click into them and then it says "must live within x miles of y"

Thanks for pointing this out - I'll look into it.

Nice. Another option for tech remote jobs is https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote

Great work @timuster!! I'll share this with my connections. Unfortunately, too many people have already lost their job, your service may help those in this bad situation.

Thank you! :)

A good proportion of open source jobs are remote:

https://www.fossjobs.net/

I like it, seems a little better than most job sites that claim to filter on remote work. How long did you work on this before launching?

Hi! Had the idea to work on this sometime last year and put together a basic working prototype (it was nowhere close to completion though). I was focusing on my other project, TripFate, in the interim. With the current global situation, I picked up the development again and wrapped it in around a week. :)

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Nice, sounds like you launched quickly after getting back to the project and looks like you're fixing bugs and gathering feedback as you go. That's the road to success with new products, best of luck!

Would be cool if I could search. I see you have "tags" on the job post, but I can't seem to search by them.

Yep, still working on adding the search feature :) Should be up in a couple of days.

You should still be able to click on individual tags to filter the postings btw.

I like the look of it but the killer feature would be search.

Agreed! I'm working fanatically on building it and hope to have the search feature up in a few days :)

FPGA engineers can work remotely!

Agreed! I'll ping a few colleagues in the industry to see if they'd like to list any jobs.

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