| Applying for remote work is a sales job. I have done it a bunch of times, landing work within two weeks each time, and this is how you do it: - figure out for whom you are a good fit based on your experience - for whom and what are you a good solution? - create a professional, to the point resume, highlighting your unique value prop for these people, and your experience that they will care about - write a really good cover letter about it, and say in it "I realize you may not have considered remote, but I think I am a very good fit and would be a benefit to your company, would you consider discussing this possibility" - go through stack overflow careers making a big list of everyone you'd be a fit for, regardless of whether they think they will hire remote. The whole world is your oyster. - send out applications TWENTY TIMES A DAY. <--- THIS IS WHAT MATTERS - follow up: after a few days, after a week, after two weeks, then drop them if you haven't heard. That's really all there is to it, it's a sales grind. You get up and you do your TWENTY calls every damned day and you will find work. Some folks might think these are high numbers, but here's the rub: when the answer come in, you want options. There's a sales saying: the best negotiating tool is a fat pipeline. If you get a hundred applications out in a week, and they take a few days to a week to get around to them, the following week you have a bunch to look into. But don't snooze, keep firing out another hundred that week until you close! That way, you get not just a job, but one that is actually good for you. You can do it, it's a sellers market in tech! So grind the numbers. Good luck! :-) |