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What are the current channels to find remote work?
I haven't been on the market for a couple of years, but I might be soon-ish.
I used to browse websites such as remoteok, or look on LinkedIn but it seems that those are mostly full of ghost offers...
Does it all happen through personal network nowadays?
I’ve always had decent luck with recruiting firms and job placement agencies, but the trick is to start conversations when you’re not yet in need so you can turn down their bullshit “foist this guy off” offers. The most tiring is where they offer “hybrid” and you talk to the company you’d be placed at and they say “sure, yeah, someday if we don’t need you in the office some days, maybe six months down the line once you’ve established yourself “ which is them basically telling you they don’t do hybrid, but want the kind of cachet given to a company that does actually offer hybrid.
How do you actually engage with a recruiting firm or job placement agency and know that it's not full of shit? I've been approached by recruiters from the employer's side before on linked in but they've mostly been duds, albeit duds where I was more likely to actually interview, but I have no idea how you manage to end up with someone helping you with job placement who remotely gives a shit about you.
Yeah i am curious about this too because there is no shortage of horror stories about recruiters in general
Someone on reddit made a site called https://hiring.cafe/ that (if I recall correctly) pulls job listings directly from companies' websites, and has pretty detailed filters. So that might be worth checking out! I'm planning to use it for my own job search.
Thanks for this, this might prove super helpful for me
I somehow actually just started a fully-remote job this week that I found on LinkedIn... but I think I'm kind of an outlier there. I also found these links all of these boards a while back:
Some of them seemed better than others, at least for the positions I was interested in, but I figured I'd shared.
I think @Narry's advice about using recruiting firms is probably the best, though. That's what my mom kept telling me to do when I was looking and I kind of ignored her, but it ended up meaning I did applied to ~140 jobs, got interviews for ~10, and got 1 offer. The offer was definitely my favorite of the interviews, so it worked out, but definitely pretty rough just applying without someone actually looking and helping you.
I'm in the market for remote work, too. Applications have gotten me nowhere since November.
My experience is that opportunities for remote work in my part of the tech world vary wildly with the skillset/qualifications you have.
I've worked partly or fully remotely the last 9 years (except when we travel to clients), and do quite a bit of hiring.
We experience much lower circulation. People aren't moving as often as they used to a couple years back.
From the companies I interact with, those who still have reputations for being good places to work get swamped with people who reach out and say they'd like to be notified/kept in mind if positions appear. I don't remember that being common before, but I experience this semi-regularly now. It's been talked about at work on several occasions.
It's the same when we filled a position last week as before covid:
We've always gotten at least 10 times more applications for remote positions.
There are so many people I'd hire for in-person work in a heartbeat that I'd never dream of offering a remote position. Based on personality, need for training/building culture, and a host of other concerns. This would also be true if we got next to no remote applications; the demands and skills needed to work remotely are much, much tougher on the employee.
We always require way more practically relevant experience specifically for a position's expected tasks if it's being filled remotely. There's even less room for learning the job on the job now than there used to be. Why risk it when there are so many other candidates?
Networking and acquaintances (reliable references) are even more king than before the AI-slopification on both sides of the hiring process.
What I'm trying to say is: I really hope it works out. Manage expectations.
The market for remote positions feels extremely tough right now. Many are hurting for work.
I think more than ever one needs a lot of luck and stand-out qualities to find something palatable that's remote.
Many in our sector are going to have to settle. For many that compromise will be that they don't work remotely. I hope that's not anyone in this thread!