I am having the hardest time getting hired. I think being in an odd time zone that no one else shares hurts not to mention the labor laws Hawaii makes employers follow.
Do you know any good resources for finding remote work?
Time zone does hurt. I think I would proactively communicate “willing to work on these timezones schedules” during the application.
Most remote friendly organizations have a good amount of flex in the workdayb hours, as long as a few daily hours overlap for everyone. This means it’s often possible to meet half way, where I’m working earlier or later than is strictly ideal for y area, but my day overlaps substantially with the team.
It is a hard time to get hired, right now. It should get better once the regulation and budget cuts in US politics settle down a bit.
For remote jobs, I’ve still gotten most of my jobs through personal references from people I know, just like before remote work was so popular.
Not sure how long you’ve been looking, but just be prepared for ghost job postings and very fierce competition. My job search took nearly a year and I know folks who’ve been looking longer. A large percentage of job postings are outright fake or they don’t actually intend to hire anyone for the position, and even real positions, especially remote ones, will have thousands of applicants. It might not be you, your location, or your resume - even if those are 100% optimized, it’s a rough market right now for finding a remote tech gig.
My advice is to make sure your resume is optimised for the AI screeners most companies are using (unfortunately what I, a human, looks for in a tech resume is very different from what HR and the AI tools look for, so make sure to have multiple versions and at least one formatted to be parsed by an AI tool) and leverage your network at much as you can. Apply as soon as you can after a job is posted. Check the websites and apply mostly to smaller companies. You can apply through Linkedin or indeed but most of the “easy apply” ones are ghost jobs. Still worth hitting the button on a few hundred of those or so just to try, but they’re far less likely to be of any value.
I am having the hardest time getting hired. I think being in an odd time zone that no one else shares hurts not to mention the labor laws Hawaii makes employers follow.
Do you know any good resources for finding remote work?
Time zone does hurt. I think I would proactively communicate “willing to work on these timezones schedules” during the application.
Most remote friendly organizations have a good amount of flex in the workdayb hours, as long as a few daily hours overlap for everyone. This means it’s often possible to meet half way, where I’m working earlier or later than is strictly ideal for y area, but my day overlaps substantially with the team.
It is a hard time to get hired, right now. It should get better once the regulation and budget cuts in US politics settle down a bit.
For remote jobs, I’ve still gotten most of my jobs through personal references from people I know, just like before remote work was so popular.
Not sure how long you’ve been looking, but just be prepared for ghost job postings and very fierce competition. My job search took nearly a year and I know folks who’ve been looking longer. A large percentage of job postings are outright fake or they don’t actually intend to hire anyone for the position, and even real positions, especially remote ones, will have thousands of applicants. It might not be you, your location, or your resume - even if those are 100% optimized, it’s a rough market right now for finding a remote tech gig.
My advice is to make sure your resume is optimised for the AI screeners most companies are using (unfortunately what I, a human, looks for in a tech resume is very different from what HR and the AI tools look for, so make sure to have multiple versions and at least one formatted to be parsed by an AI tool) and leverage your network at much as you can. Apply as soon as you can after a job is posted. Check the websites and apply mostly to smaller companies. You can apply through Linkedin or indeed but most of the “easy apply” ones are ghost jobs. Still worth hitting the button on a few hundred of those or so just to try, but they’re far less likely to be of any value.
Good luck in your search.