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I'd suggest the following, active twitter account completed Linkedin profile active github account active website (Github Pages allows free static host

I'd suggest the following, active twitter account completed Linkedin profile active github account active website (Github Pages allows free static hosting) For a remote job search, sign up for a free RSS site (I recommend https://newsblur.com/ https://newsblur.com/) and add some remote-only feeds, https://goremote.io/rss https://jobs.github.com/positions.atom https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/feed?allowsremote=True Other good remote job sites are, http://jobs.remotive.io/ https://www.flexjobs.com/ http://skillcrush.com/2014/10/10/sites-finding-remote-work/ Finally, setup a profile on https://hired.com/ https://hired.com/ and https://www.smarthires.io/ https://www.smarthires.io/ which are dedicated to linking candidates and companies in a more selective manner. Hope this helps and good luck.

sah2ed 11y ago
In addition, this is a fairly comprehensive list though maintained manually: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-boards https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-board...
riddlemethat 11y ago
These are all great tips. While you are looking you can also get paid to hear job offers at http://www.joinjune.com http://www.joinjune.com
skimpycompiler 11y ago
Why Twitter?
- ekianjo 11y ago
  Because that's all where the (rich) hipsters are. you never know who you need to meet.
- sdoering 11y ago
  [rant on] Because in this filter bubble here you are not worth a dime, if you can't brag about how friggin' awesome you are - thats what twitter is for. [rant off] Imho he should apply for jobs, apply more and even apply more. Having studied literature, I have jumped ships from publishing to tourism (marketing analyst) to being a full time data analyst via doing the work and having a resume to show it. Having an application, that differentiates one from the competition did maybe help a little bit. If @brokedev would like, he could shoot me a mail and I would show him, what I had for an application. Helped me get a lot of interviews - in the end I could choose between jobs. [edit on] Have just updated my profile - seems to be cached. In some minutes my email should show there. [edit off]
  - puranjay 11y ago
    Fellow literature student here. I'm very curious how you managed to shift to data analysis. I've made a successful shift to marketing, but technical work still eludes me.
    - sdoering 11y ago
      I had always a knack for the technical stuff. While in school my main focus where natural sciences. You could say, I always had two hearts beating in my chest. So when the chance arose, I first started doing some web analytics. As the data grew more and more (esp. in our internal tools) I needed more then excel. So I tried to learn a little bit of (in my case) python to help crunch bigger numbers. From there I got to manage the technical side of an ad server, did a lot of project management and via a gig in online marketing as a "pure" web analyst I came to work in a digital agency as a so called data analyst. Most work is "classic" web analytics, some is work on bigger datasets (growing part of my work). So basically I had a knack for math, science, empirical stuff, statistics and tried some programming (bad code, but code non the less) and that way I was able to jump ships. One day I will try to incorporate my love for literature/texts into the mix - maybe NLP or some things like that might be fun. We'll see.
    - werber 11y ago
      I studied literature as well, and made the jump to being a developer by doing a bootcamp.
    - gregcohn 11y ago
      literature major here, just chiming in to say it can be done! (I'm a founder/CEO now.) Follow the things that challenge you and that you can learn from, that intersect with things you have some strength in. Maybe marketing in the context of developer platforms?
      - sdoering 11y ago
        Hey Greg, whenever you scale to Germany, please shoot me a line. What you are building seems to me the ideal service to use. So many use cases shooting through my head... Greetings from the old world Sven
- wyclif 11y ago
  Because he can use it to follow RoR devs and find out what they are working on, having problems with, and may need help with. That can lead to work.
- ecliptik 11y ago
  Mostly because many job sites (greenhouse.io and lever.co) ask for a twitter link along with LinkedIn and Github. I've found the more interesting you can make yourself when applying, the more likely you will get a follow up interview. You don't need to be a 140-char Shakespeare, just follow some influences and projects you're interested in, re-tweet things you find useful and if you have anything of substance you've created (github, blog post etc) post it. It's not so much showing off as it is showing you're on-top of new ideas and trends in your field.
  - rev_bird 11y ago
    My problem is that I tweet a lot, but seldom about technical stuff that would actually be interesting to an employer, so when I do tweet some neat new devopsy thing, it's buried between four tweets about how I'm scared of the police and mad at the Phillies for trading somebody. It's really tough for me to find a balanced tone on this thing, because I can never decide if it's a personal or professional feed.
stuaxo 11y ago
Having an online presence where you talk about dev things is really useful, often in interviews I'm often surprised when they ask about projects I've put up (though shouldn't be - that's the whole point of my blog).
NoCulturalFit 11y ago
Thanks for the list, I appreciate it. It's close to impossible to get a remote job by the sheer amount of people wanting them. And no place will let you negotiate less salary for a job. :-/ I find myself as the same place as the the dev who wrote this. I don't even need a "dev-salary", we could live on the 44k a month and I would be happy with that as long as it's remote. Could go less, but it has to be a job that exists in ~5 years.
- Rudism 11y ago
  I could also quite easily live on $44k per month.
- nolite 11y ago
  You have a profile? CV?
robodale 11y ago
ecliptik, great list todos and remote hiring sites. Thanks for this.

sah2ed 11y ago

In addition, this is a fairly comprehensive list though maintained manually: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-boards https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-board...

riddlemethat 11y ago

These are all great tips. While you are looking you can also get paid to hear job offers at http://www.joinjune.com http://www.joinjune.com

skimpycompiler 11y ago

Why Twitter?

ekianjo 11y ago
Because that's all where the (rich) hipsters are. you never know who you need to meet.
sdoering 11y ago
[rant on] Because in this filter bubble here you are not worth a dime, if you can't brag about how friggin' awesome you are - thats what twitter is for. [rant off] Imho he should apply for jobs, apply more and even apply more. Having studied literature, I have jumped ships from publishing to tourism (marketing analyst) to being a full time data analyst via doing the work and having a resume to show it. Having an application, that differentiates one from the competition did maybe help a little bit. If @brokedev would like, he could shoot me a mail and I would show him, what I had for an application. Helped me get a lot of interviews - in the end I could choose between jobs. [edit on] Have just updated my profile - seems to be cached. In some minutes my email should show there. [edit off]
- puranjay 11y ago
  Fellow literature student here. I'm very curious how you managed to shift to data analysis. I've made a successful shift to marketing, but technical work still eludes me.
  - sdoering 11y ago
    I had always a knack for the technical stuff. While in school my main focus where natural sciences. You could say, I always had two hearts beating in my chest. So when the chance arose, I first started doing some web analytics. As the data grew more and more (esp. in our internal tools) I needed more then excel. So I tried to learn a little bit of (in my case) python to help crunch bigger numbers. From there I got to manage the technical side of an ad server, did a lot of project management and via a gig in online marketing as a "pure" web analyst I came to work in a digital agency as a so called data analyst. Most work is "classic" web analytics, some is work on bigger datasets (growing part of my work). So basically I had a knack for math, science, empirical stuff, statistics and tried some programming (bad code, but code non the less) and that way I was able to jump ships. One day I will try to incorporate my love for literature/texts into the mix - maybe NLP or some things like that might be fun. We'll see.
  - werber 11y ago
    I studied literature as well, and made the jump to being a developer by doing a bootcamp.
  - gregcohn 11y ago
    literature major here, just chiming in to say it can be done! (I'm a founder/CEO now.) Follow the things that challenge you and that you can learn from, that intersect with things you have some strength in. Maybe marketing in the context of developer platforms?
    - sdoering 11y ago
      Hey Greg, whenever you scale to Germany, please shoot me a line. What you are building seems to me the ideal service to use. So many use cases shooting through my head... Greetings from the old world Sven
wyclif 11y ago
Because he can use it to follow RoR devs and find out what they are working on, having problems with, and may need help with. That can lead to work.
ecliptik 11y ago
Mostly because many job sites (greenhouse.io and lever.co) ask for a twitter link along with LinkedIn and Github. I've found the more interesting you can make yourself when applying, the more likely you will get a follow up interview. You don't need to be a 140-char Shakespeare, just follow some influences and projects you're interested in, re-tweet things you find useful and if you have anything of substance you've created (github, blog post etc) post it. It's not so much showing off as it is showing you're on-top of new ideas and trends in your field.
- rev_bird 11y ago
  My problem is that I tweet a lot, but seldom about technical stuff that would actually be interesting to an employer, so when I do tweet some neat new devopsy thing, it's buried between four tweets about how I'm scared of the police and mad at the Phillies for trading somebody. It's really tough for me to find a balanced tone on this thing, because I can never decide if it's a personal or professional feed.

stuaxo 11y ago

Having an online presence where you talk about dev things is really useful, often in interviews I'm often surprised when they ask about projects I've put up (though shouldn't be - that's the whole point of my blog).

NoCulturalFit 11y ago

Thanks for the list, I appreciate it. It's close to impossible to get a remote job by the sheer amount of people wanting them. And no place will let you negotiate less salary for a job. :-/ I find myself as the same place as the the dev who wrote this. I don't even need a "dev-salary", we could live on the 44k a month and I would be happy with that as long as it's remote. Could go less, but it has to be a job that exists in ~5 years.

Rudism 11y ago
I could also quite easily live on $44k per month.
nolite 11y ago
You have a profile? CV?

robodale 11y ago

ecliptik, great list todos and remote hiring sites. Thanks for this.