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You're not competing with your locality but with an entire country, or more. You need to stand out somehow.
by imglorp 8y ago
You're not competing with your locality but with an entire country, or more. You need to stand out somehow.
- dubya123 8y agoHow is this any different than a job at Big Tech in SF or NYC?
- imglorp 8y agoBecause there, you're _only_ competing with local SF/NYC applicants, within like 1h drive radius or whatever.
- dubya123 8y agoSF and NYC attract the top talent from around the world.
- krupan 8y agoNot all of it, just the top talent that doesn't mind the living conditions in SF and NYC
- notoriousjpg 8y agoExactly, not all talent is prepared to up and move country. Age and family all factor into it.
- lazyasciiart 8y agoEveryone I know who lives in SF moved there when they got offered a job there.
- jfroma 8y agoThis. I'm from Argentina, what worked for me was to start a blog about the problems I was solving back then for my current job, worked in opensource stuff, responded questions for an opensource tool in a forum (there was no stackoverflow back then) and somehow built a "personal brand" for some niche technologies. It all happened like 10 years ago in the span of 3 months. I got my first remote job offer for an small software firm in Europe because they read a blogpost I wrote about solving a problem they had. I've worked since then for 3 different companies from Europe and the US. I wasn't looking for a remote job to be honest, but it happened. I honestly didn't know I could work for a company remotely back then, I was very young and had not idea about the paperwork, transactions, etc. There are a lot of players in this, some are just looking for cheap labor, but there are also companies that understand that talent is everywhere and they are looking for that.
- eeZah7Ux 8y agoCertainly more than an entire country. Yet, you can receive offers from the whole world.