What are the best remote work opportunities?
Let’s agree that this question is repeated in an exaggerated manner. When someone knows that I work remotely, he keeps asking the urgent question: “What is the best remote job that generates great income?” This is due to the fact that people who do not know the reality of remote work think that it is a kind of easy business (just by pressing a button, you do your work, and it is over).
Actually, it doesn’t work that way. Since the labor market has become full of talents and experiences, if you choose the field in which you will work remotely based on the income it generates, then this is a terrible mistake. Why? In fact, you must search within yourself for a field that you love and are fond of, and when you excel in it, clients and entrepreneurs will come to you asking for your services by name. But if you say, “Wow, this field is profitable; I will work in it,” and you do not like this field, this is the first step to failure, and this is a great injustice to yourself because you can work at something you like.
All fields are required and have demand, so do not believe those who claim that there are fields that are going extinct. The important thing is that you master what you will do and are passionate about it in principle, because you will work on these tasks day and night. And beware of two things: learning a field just because everyone else does, or learning a field because the process of learning it is easy compared to other fields.
A common question that may come to your mind is, “Do remote employees get paid less than traditional office work?
The answer is that your salary for working remotely depends on two parts:
- The amount of diligence and self-development that makes you get projects with a larger budget.
- The employer and the currency in which you are paid, as the difference in currencies makes a difference in the amount of money.
Information: Now all fields have resources to learn on the Internet, so learning is no longer a problem as resources are available. It is important to select the sources carefully.
The source from which you learn must be relatively recent, or, in a more correct sense, keeping pace with what is new in this field, because in some areas such as e-marketing and programming, there are updates that appear in them daily and things that disappear and become non-existent.
How do you prepare yourself for remote jobs?
Finding a remote job will require as much searching and digging as mining for minerals. But before you dig, you have to have the tools, and the most important tool is having business models, because we are now in an era where certification doesn’t matter and doesn’t depend on it. What really matters is your skills and whether you have done this kind of work before or not. Therefore, the important step before you think about looking for jobs is to have business models. But how will you have business models when you have never worked before? The answer is very simple; you have two options:
1. Work with a volunteer organization to apply what you have learned in the field.
There are many volunteer organizations that you can learn by working in; let’s say you are an Android application developer, and now you have a good knowledge of the basics of making an application for the Android system. The next step is to apply what you have learned, because every bit of information is useless if it is not practiced and applied in practice. Now you will search for a volunteer organization that wants volunteer services, and fortunately, the organization has asked you to design an application for it to make it easier for people to follow its developments.
In that case, you have applied what you learned and added your first business model to your portfolio. With repeated volunteering with organizations in different fields, you will have gained excellent experience.
2. Create a virtual project
The second option here is to make a virtual project, which you design from start to finish. Let’s say you are the same former application programmer and you love Dunkin’ Donuts, and you found that their application has some errors, and perhaps it could have been designed better, or it could be the company’s application. Excellent, but you have a certain view and you want the application to come out in a certain way. In this case, you design the application as you like it. For your information, some people did things similar to this idea and presented it to the original company; the company liked this work and published it on the communication pages, and some of them started working with the company after this hypothetical project. I cannot give you an exact number of people who have adopted such strategies to get remote jobs; however, I can assure you that the number is very high.
Note: There are some people who may not pass through these stages but work directly, but these are few cases. For example, I had a friend who had relatives who had a company and were owners of projects, so she always informed them about what she learned and how it could benefit the company. When there was a vacancy, my friend was the one who took it because of her talk and disclosure of what she was learning, a point I will come to shortly.
Bonus tip: Some remote jobs require a cover letter detailing your skills and motivation. The reason this letter is requested is that the employer wants to know more about you than just your resume and business models. Sometimes he may want to know what qualities a candidate has, so talk about yourself and your positives with pride. Any projects you’ve worked on that you feel bring out an amazing part of your personality should be written about.
Where should I look for remote jobs?
First, you must know that you will not find a job at first glance in the search process, but sometimes the topic may develop over months of searching without any result, and then you should not worry at all. We all went through this problem and did not despair, continuing the search process until the first job appeared. There is a belief that you must hold in this regard, which is that you may knock on 99 doors in search of a job, and the job is waiting for you at the 100th door, but you despair while the opportunity is steps away or requires little effort from you.
As I told you, the process of searching for a job to work remotely is like mining for minerals, but fortunately, you do not have to go to the owners of companies and projects yourself; technology has made it easier for us and brought together the job holder and the job seeker in one place, or rather, one site. Here are the most important sites for searching for a remote job:
1. LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a professional network dedicated to work and everything related to it, with 766 million members and 310 million monthly active members.
You have many different opportunities, and for people like you who are looking to work remotely from home, Whether you’re looking for part-time or full-time jobs, you’ll be sure to find something in our careers section. Once you’ve clicked on the Job tab at the top of the page and used keywords like working from home or working remotely, you can get started. Even better is to take advantage of LinkedIn’s boolean search feature. For example, if you’re looking for a remote developer job, search for: “remote developer.” This will give you results that contain any of the remote terms when describing the developer job.
Another good way to search for remote jobs on LinkedIn is through discussion groups. There are a lot of different groups on the site that cater to various fields. Job openings, telecommuting opportunities, and direct contact with employers are all available if you do some research.
You can customize an alert for specific jobs that you want to know about, whether in specific countries or companies.
2. Freelance job sites
These websites have a large number of available jobs that are waiting for offers from professionals and experienced remote workers.You can start by creating an account on these sites, searching for suitable opportunities, and applying for them. Do not worry; these sites are designed to preserve your rights and the rights of the employer, and any defect that results is addressed by strict measures.
3. Sites specifically for remote work
There are sites dedicated to remote work, and FYI, remote workers are called “digital nomads,” since they can work anywhere and travel from one place to another without their work being affected, as long as they have what helps them accomplish tasks, such as a laptop and fast internet.
Weworkremotely is currently the largest remote job vacancy website by community size, with remote job opportunities in many different industries, along with part-time jobs and fully remote jobs.
Remote is one of the largest remote job boards, and it’s a great place to find employers who are also getting into the remote work market themselves.
Flexjobs checks all job advertisements to ensure that they do not contain violations, and this is a great thing that many remote workers fear, especially since some sites are not responsible for the companies that offer their jobs to them, and as a result, some cases of fraud and non-payment of money occur.
How can I avoid fraud in remote work?
Unfortunately for those looking for a remote job, there are plenty of scams out there, but the good news is that it can be easy to locate these things if you know what to look for. for example:
- Remote jobs that offer huge paychecks for very little work are often scams.
- Be careful if the email address used is from a public mail service such as gmail or hotmail rather than an address specific to the company that is searching for candidates, since it is likely that it is fake (but this does not apply in all cases).
- The speed of the application and interview process is also somewhat of an indication that something is not real or logical, since the process of sorting and selecting candidates takes time, and this time increases with the increase in the number of candidates.
In any case, it is very important, whether for freelancers or business owners, to start gradually with any new contract in remote work in order to find a common ground of trust and credibility in dealing.
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