Top work at home companies: 33 Companies Going Remote Permanently

33 Companies Going Remote Permanently

For many major companies, what started out of necessity continues out of superiority. When the coronavirus began to spread in early 2020, remote work looked temporary. But recent polling suggests that around half of workplaces are planning for a hybrid model where workers can split their work time between the office and home (or a coffee shop). Just under a third said they plan to require all workers to work full-time on-site. The rest are going fully remote or distributed.

Here’s what 33 companies have planned for the “new normal.” In alphabetical order.

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1. Adobe

Model: Remote

Adobe plans to gather for the ‘moments that matter.’ They encourage employees and management to develop their own “cadence” for remote and in-person work. They developed a new app for employees and teams to stay connected. Imagine a group chat with your coworkers featuring a Facebook-style news feed specific to your team and with features enabling lunch orders placed to food service.

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2. Amazon

Model: Hybrid, office first

Amazon is allowing employees to work remotely two days a week. They’ve included the option for three days or more remote, at the expense of the employee’s designated brick and mortar office space. The company intends to keep offices open across the country, providing some stability for commercial real estate.

3. Amgen

Model: Hybrid, depending on role

With eight offices in the U.S., the biotech company offers a hybrid work setup for many employees. Leadership in human resources emphasizes flexibility in a post-pandemic work world. Many R&D employees and manufacturing specialists continue to report each day while others work from home full-time.

4. Apple

Model: Hybrid, office-first

Apple embraced remote work, but intends to limit most employees to no more than two remote days a week. Employees continue to call for adjustments to the plan, but in the meantime Apple’s offices in Cupertino, CA and Austin, TX remain open.

5. Capital One

Model: Hybrid with a fully remote option

The financial services firm plans for a hybrid set up for many employees, while supporting fully remote exceptions to the policy. The majority of contact center associates continue to work exclusively from home

6. Cisco

Model: Hybrid

Cisco’s approach to work centers on a hybrid setup – without the mandate for employees to participate. Teams can determine the best way to function and decide from there. Offices reach across the U.S. with Cisco headquarters located in San Jose, California.

7. Coinbase

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

Coinbase is pursuing a remote-first future with hopes of decentralizing operations from a single headquarters and broadening their talent pool to include non-local employees. Employees can choose to report to the offices in San Francisco or three other U.S. cities for a hybrid work setup.

8. Deutsche Bank

Model: Hybrid with a fully remote option

Deutsche Bank moved New York operations to a smaller office and has not ruled out downsizing to smaller offices distributed throughout the U.S. Employees can build hybrid work situations without a universal minimum requirement for in-office days.

9. Deloitte

Model: Hybrid, depending on department

The international consulting firm features more than 80 American offices, but allows workers to choose between in-office or home office setups. Remote work depends on managerial arrangements and could involve a hybrid arrangement.

10. Dropbox

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

Dropbox allows for employees to transition into permanent telecommuters. Remote work became the “day-to-day default” for individual workers starting in October 2020. Their concept includes redesigning existing office spaces to be collaborative co-working spaces for use by employees as needed.

11. Facebook

Model: Hybrid, depending on seniority

The social media company offers remote work based on seniority and with one caveat. Relocation will likely result in salary adjustment based on the new location. For now, recent graduates who join the team cannot work remotely. CEO Mark Zuckerburg predicts about half of employees will be remote over the next few years. With more than 30 offices in the U.S., candidates can choose from a number of locations based on their role.

12. Ford

Model: Hybrid with a fully remote option

Around 30,000 Ford employees can continue remote working – reporting to offices for important meetings and projects. Depending on the role, employees can choose from 22 offices in the U.S.

13. Google

Model: Hybrid with a fully remote option

Google granted many requests to continue working remotely, but will keep offices open. Reports indicate pay cuts are possible for employees choosing to work from home full-time. Employees and applicants do have more than 35 U.S. cities to choose from when deciding where they prefer to commute.

14. Hubspot

Model: Hybrid

Hubspot removed ‘ish’ from ‘remote-ish’ to allow employees more autonomy. With three options to choose from, employees can build a work style that suits them. With three office locations, employees can alter their work style once per year.

15. Indeed

Model: Hybrid with a fully remote option

Based in Connecticut and Texas, Indeed plans for permanent remote work post-pandemic. Leadership anticipates the majority of employees qualifying to work from home at least some of the time. They emphasize flexibility to allow employees to find their best working style.

16. LinkedIn

Model: Hybrid with a fully remote option

LinkedIn removed the expectation for employees to return to the office. Employees choose from two options: full-time remote or part-time remote/part-time in-office. Candidates can find offices in eight cities throughout the U.S.

17. Microsoft

Model: Hybrid, depending on role

Microsoft plans a hybrid work situation that responds to changing trends in pandemic data while working linearly toward a post-coronavirus standard of at least some remote work for most roles.

18. Pinterest

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

Pinterest announced early on that employees will not be expected to return to the office and canceled a large lease on office space in San Francisco. They intend to expand their talent pool like many remote-first companies to include employees previously excluded by geography. Pinterest still maintains offices in eight U.S. cities.

19. Salesforce

Model: Hybrid, with the option to work fully remote

Salesforce offers full-time remote work options to employees lacking access to their offices or those with roles suitable for remote work. There is room for employees who prefer hybrid work and even in-office roles.

20. SAP

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

SAP found a way to offer remote work options to all 102,000 employees around the globe. While physical offices remain, the company intends to focus more on a trust-based workplace – no matter employees’ location.

21. Shopify

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

Shopify announced its ‘digital by default’ status in May of 2020. Early on in the pandemic, CEO Tobi Lutke tweeted that most of his offices would “permanently work remotely” even after the pandemic ends. When available, employees can choose from two offices – one in Canada and one in Ireland.

22. Siemens

Model: Hybrid

Siemens announced a simple remote work policy for more than 100,000 employees. Siemens’ new policy on remote work focuses on quality over quantity. Instead of emphasizing the number of hours employees must spend in the office, the company shifted its focus to the results employees produce.

23. Slack

Model: Hybrid, depending on role

Slack opened most new roles to remote candidates while allowing current employees to work from home indefinitely. While the offices will remain in some form, employees and candidates have choices for their work style.

24. Spotify

Model: Hybrid

In a move supporting the will of individual employees, Spotify provides employees with options to work from wherever, whenever. The best part? If you want to work in the office but don’t live near the existing Spotify workspaces, they’ll rent you a workspace where you live.

25. State Farm

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

The insurance giant shuttered a dozen offices throughout the U.S. Part of these closings coincided with existing plans to consolidate into three U.S. cities: Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix. Leadership intends for around 40,000 employees to work remotely.

26. Square

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

Under the same leadership as Twitter, Square announced permanent work from home options in May 2020. Employees can choose to report to the office in San Francisco if desired

27. Synchrony Financial

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

Stepping out from similar financial firms, Synchrony tells employees they can’t come back to the office five days a week. As a result, leadership downsized office space with only 12 ‘hybrid hubs’ where employees can find desk space on a regular basis.

28. Target

Model: Hybrid

While retail locations continue to grow, Target relinquished one of its corporate office spaces. They promise “alternative office accommodations” for those employees, including remote-work and transfers to other brick-and-mortar offices.

29. TIAA

Model: Hybrid, depending on role

For about 85% of TIAA employees, the office is optional – at least part of the time. The Charlotte, NC office remodeled in the interest of more flexible work set-ups while the 73 other offices remain open for employees.

30. Twitter

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

CEO Jack Dorsey was one of the first tech companies to announce moving employees to permanent remote work. Workers desiring an in-office experience can choose between San Francisco and New York, along with nine other cities across the U.S.

31.

Upwork

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

Upwork continues to operate two offices, but launched a remote-first approach in 2020. Employees can operate from home full-time, or use the offices in Chicago and San Francisco.

32. Verizon

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

New hires at the communications firm receive training focused on remote work while more than 12,000 current employees in customer service and telesales remain remote. Overall, Verizon leaders envision a hybrid approach.

33. Quora

Model: Hybrid, remote-first

In June 2020, CEO Adam D’Angelo noted that technologies and remote capabilities were likely to improve much sooner than commutes, housing costs, and immigration processes. For that reason, they’ve decided to invest in building the remote work experience instead of trying to recapture the office-centric work style.

Going forward

The sudden shift to include more remote work at companies across the U.S. impacts the current workforce differently than future workers. As companies test new working models, the workforce to come can permanently alter their career path in a way unheard of even five years ago. Rather than focusing on solely remote roles or exclusively in-person positions, new workers can choose both. The first few years may take place in-office before moving to a new location – and company – as they build experience in pursuit of career success. For workers steeped in office commutes and in-person work, opportunities continue to open offering choices to continue their path or try something different. The future of work arrived earlier than expected offering unrestrained opportunity throughout each industry.

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39 companies actively hiring in February

Looking for a new role or a career change? Our research says job seekers like you are looking on Glassdoor for roles across information technology, financial services, and manufacturing industries the most. Here are 39 companies hiring within nine of the most-searched industries. Check out these roles and apply today to find a job that loves you back!

Top 10 industries:

Information Technology Financial Services
Manufacturing
Retail & Wholesale
Management & Consulting
Healthcare
Media & Communication
Education
Human Resources & Staffing
Transportation & Logistics

Information Technology

Databricks

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Solutions Architect-Retail, Business Development Representative, Enterprise Account Executive, and more

Red Hat

Where Hiring: Raleigh, NC; Boston, MA; Westford, MA; Tallahassee, FL; Atlanta, GA; Sunnyvale, CA 

Open Roles: Software Engineer, Technical Support Engineer, Solution Architect, Cloud Architect, Cloud Engineer Technical Account Manager, and more

Where Hiring: Nationwide, Remote

Open Roles: Analyst – Business Operations & Strategy, Analyst – Corporate Strategy, Brand Sales Director, Emerging Enterprise Account Director, Inside Sales Representative, Inside Sales Manager, Mid Market Account Director, Mid Market Account Executive, Mid Market Client Partner, Partner Account Executive, and more

Where Hiring: California, Texas, Utah, Washington, New York, Oregon, New Jersey, Nevada

Open Roles: Sr. Design Lead – Collectibles, Sr. Design Lead – Buyer Payments, Design Research Lead, Sr. Design Lead, Manager (Ads), Senior Design Research Manager, Sr. Product Manager – Ads Guidance, Senior Machine Learning Engineer – GCP, Senior Technical SEO, Senior Product Manager – Ads, Machine Learning Product Manager, and more

SailPoint

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Staff Software Engineer, Senior NET Engineer, Enterprise Account Executive (SLED) – New York, Sr. Sales Executive (Federal) – Washington, D.C., Sales Executive – Ohio, and more

Samsung Semiconductor Inc.

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Principal Engineer DTCO, CDL A Drivers, Senior Manager, Foundry Sales and Business Development, and more

Commvault

Where Hiring: Sacramento, CA; Ohio; New Jersey; Arizona and more

Open Roles: SLED Account Executive, Enterprise Account Executive, Director – Enterprise Architect, Commercial Account Executive, Technical Account Manager, and more

Motive

Where Hiring: Remote; Nationwide

Open Roles: Head of Product Marketing – Cards, Sales Development Representative – Mid-Market, Sales Engineer – Enterprise, Marketing Operations Manager, Manager – Marketing Analytics, Corporate Communications Manager, Senior Org. Effectiveness Analyst, Staff System Software Engineer – Android OS, Director of Enterprise Sales – Motive Cards

Where Hiring: New York, NY; Remote

Open Roles: Commercial Counsel; Digital Marketing Associate Manager; Senior Deal Desk Analyst; Senior Director, Global Campaigns; VP, Global Communications & more, and more

Recorded Future, Inc.

Where Hiring: Boston, MA; Washington, DC; (Northern) California; Southeast US; Remote

Open Roles: Product-Led Growth Marketing Manager, Manager Deal Desk, Senior Account Executive Enterprise, Account Manager Public Sector, Senior Sales Engineer (Commercial), and more

Lawrence Livemore National Laboratory

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Full Stack Developer/Search Engineer, Cybersecurity Reverse Engineer, Information Systems Security Engineer, Virtual Desktop Engineer/Desktop Engineer, Senior Simulation Developer, Windows Systems Administrator, and more

MathWorks

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Software Engineer in Test – Engineering Development Group, Consulting Manager – West Coast Operations, Senior Aerospace Engineer, Senior Salesforce Developer, Senior Developer – Oracle Cloud ERP, Software Development Manager- Licensing Technologies, Senior Full Stack Software Engineer- Product Security, and more

Axis Communications

Where Hiring: Chelmsford, MA; Lauderdale, FL; (Northern) California; (Northern) Ohio; Midwest

Open Roles: Solutions Development Specialist, Program Specialist, Team Lead Technical Services, Inside Sales Account Representative, Senior Accountant, Channel Business Partner Project Pricing, Regional Sales Manager, Field Sales Engineer, Technical Trainer, and more

Veritas Technologies

Where Hiring: Nationwide; Remote

Open Roles: Technical Support Engineer, Strategy Manager, Strategy Director, and more

Capgemini

Where Hiring: Remote; Atlanta, GA

Open Roles: Senior Penetration Tester, ServiceNow Integrations Lead Developer, and more

Financial Services 

Wells Fargo

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Relationship Banker, Personal Banker, Teller, Associate Operations Processor, Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Software Engineer, (Lead) Business Execution Consultant, and more

Centier Bank

Where Hiring: Lowell, IN; Winfield, IN; Griffith, IN; Merrillville, IN; Hobart, IN; Valparaiso, IN; Chesterton, IN; Fort Wayne, IN; Indianapolis, IN; Carmel; IN

Open Roles: Operations Optimization Manager, Universal Bankers, Branch Manager, Credit Reporting Analyst, First Bancshares Senior Analyst, and more

Lendmark Financial Services

Where Hiring: Lawrenceville, GA; Covington; GA, Evans, CO; Easton, PA

Open Roles: Senior Accountant, Senior Information Security Engineer, HR Business Partner, Branch Manager I, and more

Atlantic Union Bank

Where Hiring: Remote; Norfolk, VA; Charlottesville, VA; Reston, VA

Open Roles: Network Administrator II (Cloud), System Engineer II, Business Banking Relationship Manager I, Part-time Teller (Pantops), C&I Relationship Manager IV, and more

Manufacturing

Henkel

Where Hiring: Bay Point, CA; Brandon, SD; Cannon Falls, MN; Warren, MI; Salisbury, NC; Oak Creek, WI; Salt Lake City, UT; Memphis, TN; Salisbury, NC; Rancho Dominguez, CA; Geneva, NY; Cleveland, OH; Seabrook, NH

Open Roles: Production Operator, Manufacturing Engineer, Material Handler, and more

Menasha Packaging

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Shipping Supervisor (2nd shift), Warehouse Supervisor, Inventory Supervisor, Production Supervisor (2nd shift), Maintenance Manager, Production Supervisor, Senior Financial Analyst, Human Resources Generalist, Maintenance Mechanic, Maintenance Technician, and more

Mouser Electronics

Where Hiring: Mansfield, TX

Open Roles: Information Security Architect, Cloud Network Engineer, Developer III (Universe), WMS Systems Engineer, Sr Web Software Developer, and more

Medline Industries

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Maintenance Mechanic – PM Shift, Machine Operator I, Production Associate, Manufacturing Engineer, Supply Chain Analyst, Packager – 2nd Shift, Line Assembly I – 1st Shift, and more

Behr Paint Company

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Pro Sales Associate, Outside Pro Sales Representative, Handmade Brush Maker, Maintenance Mechanic – 1st Shift, Software Architect, and more

Rapid Micro Biosystems

Where Hiring: CA, US; MA, US; NJ, US; Lexington, MA

Open Roles: Regional Account Executive, Events Coordinator, Marketing Specialist II, and more

Retail and Wholesale

Sun Communities

Where Hiring: Southfield, MI; Sherkston Shores, ON; Old Orchard Beach, ME; Tampa, FL; Austin, TX

Open Roles: Business Analyst, Resort Housekeeper, Maintenance Technician , Server/Bartender, Community Manager, and more

Trader Joe’s

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Crew and Mate

Enterprise

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Management Trainee, Management Trainee Intern, and more

Parts Town

Where Hiring: Addison, IL; Plattsburgh, NY; Fort Wayne, IN; Remote, US 

Open Roles: Senior EDI Analyst, Senior Business Analyst, Accounts Payable Specialist, Human Resource Manager, Supply Chain Manager, and more

Management and Consulting

CDM Smith

Where Hiring: Lansing, MI; Pittsburgh, PA; Edison, NY; Nationwide; US

Open Roles: Transportation Engineer 3-Roadway, Architect 5, Structural Engineer 6, Environmental Engineer, Project Manager II, and more

Health Care

FOX Rehabilitation

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Exercise Physiologists, and more

LHC Group

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: LPN, Physical Therapist, RN, and more

Community Services Group

Where Hiring: Bethlehem, PA; Bloomsburg, PA; Hanover; Harrisburg, PA; Lancaster, PA;Lebanon; Middleburg; Pottsville; Schnecksville, PA; Selinsgrove, PA; Watsontown, PA; Williamsport, PA; York, PA; Lititz, PA; Coal Township, PA; Spring Grove, PA; Dover, Sunbury, DE; Manheim; PA

Open Roles: Direct Support Professional (DSP), Behavioral Health Advisor, Program Supervisor, Therapist (LSW, LCSW, LPC, LMFT), Mental Health Worker, and more

AbleTo

Where Hiring: Nationwide, Remote, USA

Open Roles: Automation Developer, Data Analyst Business Insights, Director Account Management (Care Development), Director Account Management (Government), Engineering Manager Mobile Team, Licensed Therapist Full Time Remote, Licensed Therapist Part Time Remote, Senior Brand Designer, Senior Government Programs Regulatory Specialist, Senior React Native Developer, and more

BJC HealthCare

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Registered Respiratory Therapist, Physical Therapist, OR Staff RN, OR Staff RN, MRI Technologist, Operating Room RN, and more

Media & Communications

CBS News and Stations 

Where Hiring: Nationwide

Open Roles: Editor, AM Executive Producer, Newswriter/Producer, and more

Education

University of Maryland Global Campus 

Where Hiring: Adelphi, MD; Remote, US; Travis Air Force Base, CA

Open Roles: Academic Program Specialist, Graduation Services Coordinator, Admissions Advisor, Accounting, Department of Accounting and Finance – Adjunct Faculty, Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies, Department of Cybersecurity- Adjunct Faculty, and more

Transportation and Logistics

Mast Trucking 

Where Hiring: Millersburg, OH; Akron, OH; Cleveland, OH

Open Roles: Paid CDL Training

OEC Group  

Where Hiring: Queens, NY; Renton, WA; Itasca, IL; Webster, TX; Kansas City, MO; St. Louis, MO

Open Roles: IT Systems Analyst, Network VoIP Engineer, Project Implementation Manager, Freight Forwarding Operations Manager, International Logistics Sales Manager, Freight Sales Consultant, Executive Assistant, Sales Support Coordinator, Air Import Coordinator, Operations Intern, and more

Find a remote job in a foreign company. 10 steps – Career on vc.ru

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Every year the Oxford English Dictionary selects a “Word of the Year”. But in 2020, something went wrong. Oxford University Press described 2020 as “a year that left us speechless” and said it was impossible to find the right word for it.

But in our opinion, such a word still exists. Since last March, the use of the word “remotely” has skyrocketed around the world. Most businesses have moved away from the traditional office work model and are trying to organize employees to work from home. For developers from the CIS, this is a great opportunity to start working in the world’s best companies. Wages abroad are higher and opportunities are greater than ever before.

Here are some observations on how a developer can find remote work in 2021. And a great list of resources that can help you get a good job.

Expectations

1. Filter by keywords

To make your search much easier, use the words “remote”, “work from home”, “remote”, “work from home”, “off-site”. There is nothing worse – to see a vacancy that fits perfectly, and only at the very end to meet the postscript “work in our office”.

• LinkedIn: To search for a remote location, type “Any Country” in the location field. And turn on the “Remote work” slider in the filters. In the search field, in addition to your position, you should also write “Remote”.
• CareerBuilder (VPN may be required.: Enter the title of the job you are looking for + one of the keywords in the search field. Or select Work from Home in the location filter.
• Indeed: similarly, job title + keyword. Or the item “Remotely” in the “Location” field. Also don’t forget to select the country you want to work for the company from. Depending on this, salaries for similar vacancies can vary greatly.
• g-mate: telegram bot for selecting vacancies. You drive in the parameters you need (position, remote work, desired salary) – and he periodically sends you worthy options from Russian and foreign companies. When you find something that interests you, send your resume or link to LinkedIn. Your profile is processed and shown to companies in the format they expect it to be. An experienced IT recruiter also helps you for free: answers questions, introduces you to companies, helps you prepare for an interview and supports you in negotiations (the /human command in the chat).
• Glassdoor: Location must be left blank. And in the search field add “remote” or “work from home”. Then click “See all jobs” and then filter by the desired salary and the date the job was published.
• Monster: we also clean up our location, and look for our position with keywords. You may need a VPN to access the site. We highly recommend checking vacancies in different countries, they are not universal here.

2. Breaking into foreign startups

IT salaries in Russia are lower than abroad. If you have English (or you are learning it), you can start looking for alternatives.

Which companies are most likely to hire remotely right now? Startups! The remote policy is in line with their flexibility, openness, international ambitions and, importantly, saves their financial resources. There are both big pluses and huge minuses in working for foreign startups. But if you are young and still full of desire to change the world, to find work in foreign startups, you can periodically look at:

• AngelList
• Authentic Jobs
• CrunchBoard
• Mashable
• Startupers
• WorkInStartups
• VentureLoop

Reality

3. Find companies with remote-first

There are special job boards that only post jobs that allow work from home. This is how many remote companies and remote employees find each other. Using them greatly increases your chances of finding a company with a good understanding of how to work remotely.

The list of remote job boards has grown so much over the past year that it deserves a separate article. But most often abroad, such platforms are used to search for remote work:

• We Work Remotely – according to them, the largest community of remote workers in the world
• Nodesk
• Skip The Drive
• Remote.co
• Who is Hiring
• RemoteOK
• Working Nomads

4. Checking sites with an emphasis on IT

Niche Job Boards saves you time and energy and makes it easier to reach employers who need your skills. Startups often sit on them, and companies like Facebook and Google periodically come. You can search for remote IT jobs using:

• StackOverflow
• GitHub
• Dice
• Landing Jobs
• Jobspresso

5. Go to Facebook

No matter how you feel about this social network, Facebook abroad is now a popular resource for recruiters to share open vacancies. Join relevant groups, for example:

• Remote Tech Jobs
• Digital Nomad Jobs
• Remote Jobs, Work Anywhere
• Jobs for Front-End Developers
• Remote Job
• Remote Jobs at Best Startups
• Remote Work & Jobs for Digital Nomads

6. Using the power of bots

Have you ever wanted an assistant to help you find a good position? Recently, they have appeared – these are various bots.

Leading hiring companies have bots to screen candidates, collect CVs, and answer regular hiring questions. They are used by Amazon, and Google, and Apple, and thousands of smaller firms. Often there are even chatbots integrated into messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Telegram.

Find the bots of the companies you want to work for, “chat” with them. The bot will send you notifications when new vacancies appear in the company. And can help you determine which positions are best for you. In addition, a chatbot is a great tool for practicing English!

If you’re a full-time employee, there’s nothing worse than spending your lunch breaks and nights browsing hundreds of job openings, connecting with recruiters on LinkedIn/Facebook, and building a list of “dream employers.” The bot will be a great alternative: your personal recruiter, who helps you create your own personal feed of the best vacancies.

Found the perfect role for you? It remains to get it, proving that you are better than the other candidates!

7. Create CV

Neat, professional, and time-saving for a recruiter or manager.

You can use one of the many resume templates available online, such as Canva. Or use a professional CV building site (say, Resumake). As a last resort, there’s LinkedIn Resume Assistant to help you work on your English-language resume in a Microsoft Word file.

Standard resume or CV includes:

• First name, last name
• The position you are looking for (the wording can be changed to fit the vacancy)
• Skills
• Contact information (address, e-mail, phone)
• Links to professional profiles (portfolio, personal website, LinkedIn)
• Short section “About me”
• Your work experience (with a bulleted list under each of your positions, describing your responsibilities, achievements and skills acquired)
• Education
• Self-education (courses and certificates)
• Knowledge of languages, interests.

You can optionally include personal references, either from serious people in the industry or simply from your former employers (this will show that you stayed on good terms with them).

+ Be careful when filling in short information about yourself. Imagine being in an elevator for two minutes with a Google recruiter (which is, at best, how long a person will check your resume before they form an opinion). A brief summary usually includes your current position, your accomplishments, and your experience in the industry in general and with certain technologies in particular. And, as an option, what position are you currently interested in (and why). Just a couple of sentences – and the recruiter already gets an idea of ​​​​who you are and why you can suit him.

+ Use verbs. Don’t just list your responsibilities for each job, but start each sentence in the style of “applied”, “done”, “facilitated”, “adapted”. Harvard Law School has published a complete list of action verbs in English. With them, you automatically seem more proactive.

+ Choose one of the special techniques to improve your resume. For example, STAR method, WHO method, or CAR method. Your resume is not just a list of what you have done in life. Special techniques allow you to describe your functional skills, define your achievements and create a more compelling story of your professional development. You don’t have to be a professional writer, just follow the rules.

8. Writing a Cover Letter

The cover letter can be a separate file attached to your email or online application. Abroad, about half of IT companies require such letters from applicants. And this is more common among startups: 65% of such firms ask to send cover letters.

Using eye-tracking software, in 2018, researchers found that recruiters, on average, take just 7.4 seconds to decide on a candidate (see pdf). They check first of all your current role, last place of work, dates and level of education. Having a cover letter in such a situation is a good plus: it shows that you have a real interest in this job, and you are ready to make some effort to get it.

Preparing a cover letter is a great opportunity:

• Review your resume
• Review your work experience to make it easier for you to talk about it at an interview in the future
• Practice English, improve writing skills
• Explain some aspects that may not be clear to the recruiter and for which there is no place on the resume (for example, employment gaps).

There are no clear rules on how to write a cover letter and what information to include in it. You can keep in mind that usually when reading, the hiring party wants to see answers to such questions:

• Do you know the name of the company that hires you?
• Why are you interested in this particular position?
• Why do you want to work in this particular company?
• How did your previous experience lead you to this position?
• What are your advantages in relation to this position?
• Do you like what you do?

The overall goal is to show that you understand the industry and know about the company you are going to work for. When you apply for a remote job, be sure to include your ability to work from home (and how many years you’ve been doing it). You can check your final cover letter for grammar and spelling errors in Word or with free tools like After The Deadline, Grammar Slammer, Hemingway, LanguageTool. In extreme cases, Google Translate also catches the simplest errors.

9. Assessing our salary prospects

For the same work, different specialists can receive significantly different salaries – it depends on which country and which company they work for. And also, of course, on how much they asked for. It is difficult to understand remotely which requests will be relevant. How to check that you are not cheap? Here it is important to consider three factors:

+ Are you being offered a high enough salary? Review the company’s payroll strategy, especially for telecommuters. They may have a policy that the salary depends on your location. Sites like ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor, and Totaljobs can give you a general idea of ​​the average salary for a remote developer in your field, for example in the US and the UK.

+ Will you receive financial, legal and tax support? This support may be provided by someone in the company or a contractor. They should help you deal with all the problems that always arise when applying for a new position, especially if you are from Russia and the company is foreign. You must know how to sign a contract as a remote worker, what are the tax implications and how to avoid double taxation.

+ Does the company offer benefits and various bonuses? Some firms give remote employees $1,000 to set up their home office, provide membership to a coworking space, or cover some other expenses (pay for internet, buy a good webcam, microphone, laptop). And we’re not talking about options yet.

In the US, the average bonus package is 30% of employee income. That is, a person with a salary of $55,000 receives about $16,500 more in the form of company shares, various insurances, payments to a retirement account, and so on. The total compensation ends up being $71,500. In Russia, salary bonuses account for much less. But if you don’t have sick days, insurance, paid vacations, paid courses, a paid gym and other additional benefits, you can virtually remove 10-15% from your salary. To make it easier to compare it with alternatives.

10. Interview

The recruitment process varies from company to company. It may consist of steps such as:

+ Pre-recorded interviews. There are more and more of them, especially for remote work. All candidates receive the same list of questions and shoot a video for 3-5 minutes, recording the answers to them. Here, too, you can be proactive: add a link to the video in your profile, talking about yourself, your experience and why you are suitable for this position. Candidates with pre-recorded interviews, according to our data, receive offers from companies one and a half times more often.

+ Preliminary coding tasks. “Homework” provided by the employing company. There is usually a time limit, or the task may not be trivial.

+ Technical interviews. Video interviews with developers or other tech-savvy people from the company. During the technical interview, be prepared to:

• Analyze the code from the tasks given to you for homework.
• Answer a series of questions about the basics of programming, your language, frameworks.
• Pass code verification. You will need to open an IDE or text editor to do some real-time tasks and discuss them.

Usually the tasks are more difficult than the position requires. And employers are more interested in your logic in solving the problem and your explanations than in the actual solution. To get an idea of ​​how technical interviews usually go, you can go to YouTube (for example, Joshua Fluke’s channel). There may be several technical interviews – three, four or more.

+ General interviews. A hiring manager, team leader, or even the CEO of a startup might call on zoom jitsy skype (or sometimes even on the phone) and ask you about all the little things you add to your resume, your experience with different tools, and technologies, your soft skills and so on. Get ready to answer specific questions about remote work: how do you work on it, and what are your plans for the future. This, as a rule, already includes a cultural fit check (if you do not get a job in an IT giant).

+ Final interview. Congratulations! You’ve passed the technical interview, and you qualify for the social skills company. At this stage, there is a discussion of working conditions: the amount of wages, the desired schedule, and so on. If all the stars (or budget items) converge, after this stage you will conclude an employment contract and will be able to start performing your duties.

TOP 10 best ways to make money without leaving home

Due to economic instability in the world, people began to look for sources of additional income. The internet comes to the rescue. However, most people still adhere to conservative views, preferring to do traditional work “at work” rather than at home. If you still like to work from home, and at the same time not put in a lot of effort, then you will probably like the article 10 of the highest paying jobs for lazy people.

Now a lot of commercial organizations create their own websites on the Internet and trade via the Internet. Outsourcing – hiring remote workers to perform work – has become an extremely powerful and profitable business tool. Instead of filling the office with employees, entrepreneurs simply search the Internet for people who are ready to do the necessary work on their home computer. This is a unique chance for those who want to make money by sitting in their favorite pajamas at the computer for as long as they want – a few hours, all day or all day long.

Here are the main reasons why people earn extra money at home – the crisis in the economy, a large number of workers who have been laid off, there is no work in their specialty, the need for additional income. If you are a student and need extra income, then you will love the 10 best ways to earn money as a student.

However, there are far fewer offers of highly paid work at home than those who want to get it. Due to the high competition, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find orders. And if one person can’t complete a task or agrees to work only for a certain amount of money, then you can be sure that there are 2.5 million people who can do it for less money.

A huge number of applicants and high competition make it difficult to find a job at home with decent pay. But this does not mean that there are few vacancies for such work, on the contrary, there are a sufficient number of them. You just need to know where to look, and not just do the job, but give everything 100% in order to constantly have interesting orders and receive good rewards.

The following are top 10 most popular types of work at home . In fact, there are many more, but it is this ten that is considered the easiest for beginners.

1. Selling goods on the Internet

Most people believe that only household goods or antiques and collectibles that have lain in the attic for ages can be sold via the Internet. While this is a great way to make money fast, it’s not long-term due to the limited number of items on sale.

The sale of goods via the Internet has brought trade to a higher level. Now there is no need to fill your attics, basements and sheds with “treasures”. We need to think more globally. Looking through ads on the Internet, going to sites like Ebay, Craigslist, people buy goods profitably in one place, and then sell them profitably in another.

This scheme – buying goods at a low price and selling on their website or sites for sale – is becoming for many people a reliable source of additional income for the long term. There are also sites, such as Etsy, through which you can sell unique arts and crafts items around the world.

2. Organization of direct deliveries of goods

Developing the idea of ​​selling goods via the Internet, you can go even further. To do this, you need to create your website and open a virtual store. The organization of direct deliveries at home does not require the presence of the goods themselves, transportation and large financial investments. All you need is a website and basic knowledge to post product photos and descriptions on the site. The shipping company will be able to deliver the goods to the buyer, knowing the name of your site and the address on the package.

3. Phone sales, consultations, answering calls

Some companies today are looking for performers to connect with their customers. When you call a hotline or dial a technical support number, the person answering the call may be very far away not only from you, but also from the company he represents – in another city, state, or even continent.

Many people work from the comfort of their homes – answering calls, selling goods over the phone, consulting – while sitting at the kitchen table in front of a computer with a headset in their ears!

4.

Online tutoring/teaching

Today, many parents choose to teach their children at home. If the child goes to school, often there is a need for tutors. Many can offer their services: retired educators, bright students and college graduates, even stay-at-home moms or dads, if they have enough knowledge in some area. At the same time, neither the teacher nor the student even need to leave the house – classes are held remotely online.

5. Medical transcription

The essence of this work is the translation into written form of the recorded reports and comments of medical specialists. It is not necessary to be a doctor or to be well versed in medical terminology. You only need to accurately write the text and not make mistakes. Performers working at home are needed by many medical institutions: hospitals, clinics, insurance companies. Therefore, finding such a job on the Internet is quite easy. And if you have excellent medical transcription skills, you can get very decent money for it.

6. Virtual Assistants

You won’t believe how many companies and individuals use virtual assistants. Actors, business executives, lawyers – everyone needs virtual assistants to set appointments and meetings, maintain public relations, create current and long-term work schedules. If you are lucky enough to find a good client, your dreams of a big income will certainly come true!

7. Browsing trading websites

If you are a big fan of the Internet and spend a lot of time on the Internet, then you can make money on it. To do this, you need to go to sites involved in trade, find the most popular and fashionable products, compare prices, etc. All the collected information must be entered into a spreadsheet or simply sent to the website of the company you work for. Specialists analyze all the collected information to study consumer demand.

8. Accounting/taxation at home

If your specialty is “Accounting and Taxation” and you have problems with a job – you cannot find it, you are not satisfied with the salary, there are no regular customers – you can provide your services while working from home.

Many companies, organizations, and even individuals use full-time home accountants. The range of these services is quite wide – documentation, reporting on expenses and investments, tax calculation.

9. Freelance work writing/editing texts

Now many companies, organizations, individuals want to present themselves worthily on the Internet – on websites, blogs, web pages. To do this, they need interesting and competent texts. This work can be handled by capable freelancers – freelancers. Copywriters do the writing of original texts, and rewriters do the editing. Orders can be found on content exchanges, which are very numerous on the Internet. The more you write, the better it will get. And, perhaps, soon your additional income will become the main one, and you will be able to devote all your time to this interesting work.

10. Blogging

When looking for information on the Internet, people often end up on someone’s blog instead of a website.