An Attempt at Remote Freelance

Why remote freelance?

Personal Goals

Resources

Guides

  1. skillcrush’s Remote Job You Love Guide
  2. How to establish personal brand for starting a business on a shoo-string budget with the Webminar “Bootstrap Marketing Master Class” by Matthew Capala

Job boards

These sites are displayed in the order of personal preference.

Free

  1. Jobspresso - Relatively updated job listings, but follow their Twitter @jobspresso for daily fresh job updates. The job listing is very friendly with upfront information of posting date & geographic criteria (super important for international candidate like myself)
  2. WeWorkRemotely - could be limited to certain citizenship (US)
  3. Working Nomads - highly up-to-date job board with nearly 0 posts lasting for more than a month. Jobs are mainly in the (software) development category, though jobs in business, design, & other categories are also adequately available.
  4. Creatives Without Borders - Job board - relatively up-to-date, but normally fewer than 10. Vetted employers & job postings. Please do support their partner NGOs via pro-bono work too!
  5. Remotive - charge for community support on slack. Job postings feel like web scraping results since all links lead to external sites, with a common parameter in the url: ?utm_medium=website&utm_source=jobs.remotive.io
  6. SKIP THE DRIVE - Interface is not quite user-friendly since it looks like old Google Search Result
  7. VirtualVocations - Both free & paid subscriptions are available. Their FAQs are relatively comprehensive & relevant. Most jobs may have geographic restrictions or are exclusive to US citizens, but such information is available.
  8. PowerToFly - Very few remote jobs comparing to other sites in the list. Jobs are not updated even if they seem to expire for really long (6+ months).
  9. Remote.co
  10. Landing.Jobs
  11. WFH.io
  12. GitHub Jobs
  13. Outsourcely
  14. Authentic Jobs
  15. AngelList Startup Jobs
  16. Dribble - Jobs for Designers
  17. remote OK
  18. stackoverflow Jobs
  19. Freelancer
  20. Fiverr
  21. Ask Wonder - For rearchers only, but topics are widely varied from all corners of life. The most common tasks are market research/analysis.
  22. Jobscribe - Jobs are only accessible after email subscription. Though one can view them on Twitter by following @jobscribe. However, the latest job posting dated back to March 2016, so this site could just be skipped.

Charged

  1. flexjobs

flexjob subscription plans (9 Feb 17)

Plan

Progress

Results

Written on February 9, 2017