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Updated for 2021
There are some 30 million Americans out of work right now. It’s pretty scary, but in some sectors, like tech, remote job posting have remained open. Those keen to make a fresh start, in a possibly more resilient job, are looking toward these remote jobs or work from home roles as a career, and lifestyle, pivot. If you are new to this type of job search, you may be wondering where to start. Don’t worry, we’ve got you. Listed below are the top websites for remote job searching in 2021.
Ready to start your job search? Don’t forget to download the free LinkedIn Refresh worksheet before you start applying.
WWR is the largest remote work community in the world, with over 2.5M monthly visitors. Companies including Google, Amazon, and Basecamp. They post jobs for business & management roles, programmers, developers, copyrighters, sales & marketing, legal roles, finance positions, designers, product manager…a little bit of everything.
FlexJobs hand screens each of their posting. As an OG remote job board you find work from home, partial work from home and in-office jobs (hence the “flex” part). They cover over 50 job categories, not just technical roles. The catch? Job seekers AND job posters have to pay to be on the platform. Subscriptions start at $14/month. You can get 50% off through 4/5/2021 with code SPRING (not sponsored).
Working Nomads covers more tech-sector jobs (creative, technical and managerial). Like WWR, this site is free for job seekers. They curate lists of remote job offers, covering both staff and contractor (freelance) roles.
Remote.co includes job postings from 100+ remote teams. Unlike other sites, they also list remote nursing, virtual assistant (VA) roles and online teaching positions. They offer a free job search, but you can get access to more job posting by paying for their premium service, and their partner network, FlexJobs.
Pangian is a 100% remote work only job board that verifies and curates all of their postings. What is nice about Pangian is that they list the salary (if disclosed) on the job posting, so you don’t have to click through and search for it. The roles cover all job categories, and while there is a focus on freelance and contract roles, many staff positions make their way onto Pangian as well.
Skip the Drive posts “telecommuting, remote, online, and work-from-home jobs”, both part-time and full-time. their website is free for job seekers and no login or registration is required to start searching.
Let’s Work Remotely is a job board and digital nomad community with three active Facebook groups (letsworkremotely, Digital Nomads Around the World, & Digital Nomad: Remote Job Opportunities). It’s a great place to start if you are looking for a digital nomad community and new job opportunities.
Started in 2017 Dynamite Jobs routinely has more the 1000 open posting. Roles range from technical roles, to customer support and marketing. Dynamite Jobs checks each job listing to verify that it is in fact remote, still open and paid in real dollars. At the time of publishing this platform is free for job seekers.
Power to Fly in a women-led community focusing on roles for developers but they also list copywriting, social media, and PR, design and marketing jobs. They connect Fortune 500 companies and fast growing start-ups with highly qualified women. Their job board, which is free to search, included remote and in-office listing. Power to Fly also hosts events and virtual job fairs.
The Muse post both remote and traditional office jobs and offers up a sizable about of free resources and content on career coaching and career advice. They are focused primarily on millennials and connecting them to tech-forward companies (not just tech companies). Rest assured, their job offerings include everything from healthcare to finance to beauty.
Remotive list remote jobs in software, marketing, creative, teaching, HR, finance and medicine. Their webiste includes a blog and extensive resources on landing a remote job. Like many of the other job boards on this list, Remotive screen the 1,092-odd companies that list roles on their website. Also, their mascot is a shibu inu for added cuteness.
Good investors are a startup’s most valuable resource. Keep your investors well informed and give them all to details so they can brag about your company with other potential investors, customers, and acquirers.
The best way to keep them updated is an email sent out on a regular basis - either monthly for major investor or quarterly for smaller investors or angels. Pre-Seed to Series A companies may also opt for monthly updates and later stage startups from Series B onward can transition to quarterly updates. In either case you want to make sure that your updates are predictable.
Never send out your updates as a bulk email with a list of investor on CC (carbon copy) or BCC (blind carbon copy). Always send each update individually. This is for two reasons: 1) you don’t want an investor to “reply all” and spam your other investors with questions or comments that they don’t care about. 2) Your are communication potentially sensitive or confidential information and more conservative investors may see a bulk email as careless.
Never surprise investors in an email update. If need to share negative or troubling news reach out to your investors via phone or Zoom before you send out the update email.
Ready to start sending update? Download the fully editable investor update email template here.
Looking to try out the remote work game, but aren’t ready to fully commit? Or just need a few extra dollars coming in every month? Then keep reading! In this post we cover five remote work (aka online jobs) options you can start right away.
Get paid to test out and provide feedback for websites, apps, and tech from brands located all over the world. There are several platforms out there, but I recommend starting with UserTesting.com. You will need a computer with Windows or macOS, reliable internet, a microphone, by 18+ and be comfortable speaking english.
Remote businesses use virtual assistants for all sorts of day-to-day operations: Pinterest, inbox management, copyrighting, basic bookkeeping, social media, and scheduling. There are no formal requirements for becoming a VA and you can get started by creating a profile on websites like Upwork and listing your skills. While no certification is requirement, you may want to take a course to refine your offering, such as the Six Figure VA Course (not sponsored).
If you have physical or digital products that you’ve been meaning to get out in the world, quickly set-up a low overhead online store with Squarespace or Shopify. If setting up a store isn’t your wheelhouse, you can also flip clothing, accessories, toys, household goods (and really anything you can get your hands on) using platforms such as Poshmark, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, and eBay. It may not sound like much, but most people have at least $1000 worth of products that aren’t being used around the house. Need some inspo? Checkout My Poshmark Store ;).
Brands often outsource ad creation and management to dedicated professionals to help streamline their business operations. An ads manager creates, edits and analyze paid promotional campaigns on Facebook and Instagram with a given budget. You can get started as an ads manager by creating a profile on Freelancer. While there are no formal qualifications for this job, if you’ve never run ads before, but want to get started, you can take courses to become a Facebook Ads Manager on Facebook Blueprint (for free), LinkedIn Learning and Udemy.
If teaching is your passion, you may be able to start a side hustle teaching English with platforms such as VIPkid. VIPkid provides one-on-one english language instruction to kids in China aged 4-12. To qualify on VIPkid you must hold a bachelors degree and pass an interview. Not into teaching english? Check out some alternatives like Outschool and teach almost anything you are passionate in to kids 4-18.
To hit $1000 a month with any of the above you need to average $25/hr for 10 hours a week of work. The nice thing with these jobs is that you can increase or decrease you hours as you like.
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2020 has been full of surprises, to put it kindly. For many, this means looking at new jobs, but also new ways of working - specifically working remote or working from home. Remote jobs are far from new, but now more than ever, more traditional companies are transitioning more roles out of the cubicle and into your living room (or beachside cafe in Bali, whichever suits your life).
If you’re new to the remote job search, be sure to check out this post on where to find remote work. If you already have a shortlist going, keep reading for the top four tips for getting an interview and landing the remote job of your digital nomad dreams.
1. Refresh Your Linkedin Profile. These days it’s pretty safe to assume that if your resume makes it into human hands, that human is going to Google you. Immediately. The first thing that comes up? Your LinkedIn page. Make sure that your profile is up-to-date (current profile picture, job title and experience), professional looking and accurately represents the job you are going after. Need some help? Download this free LinkedIn Refresh worksheet.
2. Craft a remote work-friendly resume. Hiring managers and recruiters look for slightly different content on remote worker resumes compared to traditional roles. Instead of listing your ‘duties’ for each role, speak their language and make sure your previous role descriptions focus on:
Your achievements. For example: “grew the email subscriber list from 0 to 4000 in three months”
Statistics. For example: “increased team productivity by 20% YoY”
Your skills. For example: software you can use, coding and/or programming languages, project management, social media, database management, audio/photo/video editing, technical writing and big data & analytics. Demonstrate soft skills in your cover letter.
Instead of your address include your website or LinkedIn URL. If you are applying with companies based in the US, you may want to include a line indicating that you have legal rights to work there.
3. Make your resume ATS-friendly. Most companies now use an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to automatically screen resumes as they are submitted. The ATS software scans resumes for keywords provided by the recruited. No keywords found? Your resume is automatically rejected and will never get into the hands of a human recruiter or hiring manager. Fortunately, there are two ways that you can make your resume ATS-searchable:
Manually look for keywords in the job posting and making sure the relevant ones appear verbatim in your resume.
Use a website like JobScan.co (not sponsored) to optimize your resume.
4. Create a professional looking resume (for $0). While you should save your ATS optimized resume as .docx to make it easily searchable, it’s still good to have a PDF version of your resume handy for when a human gets around to reviewing your application. While you can pay for a professionally assembled resume using UpWork or Fiverr, you can also whip one up for free yourself using one of the templates on Canva. I recommend the Minimalist templates, but depending on your desired role you can go for ones with more color and flair.
Good luck!
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