Looking for Remote Jobs During the Pandemic

Looking for a job always has been not an easy task. Now, with the Covid Pandemic, is even harder. And seems that it won't be better anytime soon.

Luckily, this has forced many business to open their mind to hiring remotely, making it easier to find a remote job, from anywhere in the world. Let's see how and where we can do it!

Introduction

Looking for a new job is always a stressful task: Lots of time spent in searching, comparing, sending CV and emails, waiting for an answer...

Since 2020 this has been even harder: Business closed, people getting fired, and having a website has become less of a priority than before.

But enough of negative things.

This has forced (finally!) business to open to hiring people for remote positions. Now you can look for jobs, not only in the city you live in but anywhere in the world.

But this is not the only benefit of working from home...

Why work from home?

Working remotely doesn't (just) mean being able to pick any job, regardless of the location of the company. It also offers:

• No commute. Save time, money and stress.

• Better eating habits. Instead of packing sandwiches or going to the nearest McDonalds, you can eat better from home.

• Fewer distractions. Yes, kids may annoy you a bit, but once you set rules with your kids and/or partner, you'll have fewer distractions than working from home. And fewer questions from coworkers when you're about to crack that problem :-)

• More freedom. Business normally enforces a set of (arbitrary) rules, from what to wear to even how to cut your hair (yeah, I know...) or if you can wear jewellery or display tattoos. Ignore that working from home.

• Flexible schedule. Some business lets you manage your schedule: As long as you work your hours and produce results, you can choose when to work, leaving time for you to play with your kids, relax or do chores, improving your work-life balance.

• More productivity. Contrary to how many bosses think, working from home increases your productivity. No one is there to stop your train of thought to show you another cat video (just leave it on Slack and I'll see it when I have free time!).

• Easier phone calls. If you share your office, you know that calling your clients is torture. People trying to talk to you, people talking between them, printers, doors, more people yelling... From your own home, you don't have all that distractions.

While this takes self-discipline and it is lonely, a lot of people prefer working remotely than driving one hour to work in an office.

Let's see now where to find that dreamy job.

Search engines

Without a further ado, here is a list of places where you can search for a remote job:

Jooble

Jooble lets you search for jobs anywhere in the world.

Select what are you looking for (Node.JS dev, Flutter programmer, Web design) and add a location (a country, a city...or 'remote'!), and you'll find a lot of job offers.

As an example, here's what you will find if you are looking for a Remote React job.

984 vacancies seems a good number, right?

You can also add your email to get notified when a new job is open!

Jooble has been online for more than 10 years, offering hundreds of jobs in different technologies.

Remotive

Remotive focuses in only remote jobs.

A search box with a drop-down menu to filter by category (Sales, DevOps, QA, Software developer...) is all you need to find a job here.

Clean UI and easy to apply by login with LinkedIn or Github.

We work remotely

We Work Remotely is another search engine focused on remote jobs.

It has a nice and simple (yet powerful) advance search system, that lets you filter jobs.

Stack Overflow

If you have been programming for more than one week, you already know Stack Overflow. What you might not know is that it has its own Remote Developer Jobs listing.

It offers one of the best advanced search filtering system, being focused in just programming jobs, with even a voting system.

Indeed

While not focused on just remote (or programming) jobs, you'll find plenty at Indeed.

As you can see, at this time it is listing thousands of remote jobs. What are you waiting for?

Remote Hunt

Remote Hunt, at its own name implies, is a remote job search engine with daily new jobs.

While it is not big (yet!), it is updated with new jobs daily.

Their advanced search system is very powerful, as you can select what benefits are you looking for (Equity, Pair Coding, Crypto...).

Final thoughts

Talking about working remotely, we are living in an interesting time.

A lot of business are open to hiring remote workers and, as you saw, you have a lot of websites where you can search for jobs. And you are aware of the benefits of working from home.

Don't procrastinate and start searching for the job of your dreams!