Remotive Jobs: How To Find A Remote Job

When I tell people I work from home, they usually say something like, “That’s incredible, it must be awesome.” Working from home is indeed awesome…at least half the time. The other half the time you might find yourself in the dumps: not as motivated as you might be in an office setting, trying your best to maintain self-discipline, talking to yourself at all hours of the day.

Of course, remote jobs are great for other reasons. If you’re a working parent, carrying out your job duties from home can give you a chance to spend more time with your kids. You’ll also probably save money on travel, fancy work clothes, and eating out.

So how do you actually find one of these coveted remote jobs?

One of the best places to look for a remote job on the Internet is a website called Jobs With Remote, which serves as both a job board as well as a more general knowledge base and resource for how to work from home most effectively. The job board portion of JWR is presented in minimal fashion and updated frequently. Users are granted a choice of seven career categories, including industries like education, sales, and engineering, that they can use to filter results. The only other filter allows users to filter by companies. Due to the extremely broad nature of remote work, scanning the general job board introduces a crowded but segmented experience. Even if you don’t decide to filter your results, the jobs are presented by industry automatically.

Perhaps the more popular aspect of Jobs With Remote is a growing biweekly newsletter that reaches more than 15,000 readers with tips and advice on remote jobs.

As a resource JWR is clean and simple, but may leave some users wishing for a slightly more robust set of options. Still, and especially considering the recent boom in remote work, They quickly fills a void for plenty of millennial job seekers who don’t know where they want to work but know exactly where they want to work.

BONUS: Looking for remote tech jobs. Try Jobmote.com.