Stage 2 of 8 · 8 lessons · ~2 weeks
What "remote" really means in a listing
Most remote roles are restricted by country, time zone or the legal entities a company can hire through. Learn to read a listing for those limits, the employment type and the pay, so you stop applying to roles you cannot take.
Start: Remote-first, remote-friendly and hybridLessons· one lesson for each topic, in this order
- 1Remote-first, remote-friendly and hybridLesson
- 2Country restrictions and the legal entity behind themLesson
- 3Work authorisation questionsLesson
- 4Time zone requirementsLesson
- 5Employee, contractor or agency: reading the typeLesson
- 6Pay: location-based, global bands and currencyLesson
- 7Red flags in a listingLesson
- 8A one-minute eligibility checkLesson
Do this
- Collect 20 current remote listings for your target role.
- For each, note the country restriction, time zone rule, employment type and pay range.
- Mark each listing as eligible, maybe or not eligible for you.
- Look up the careers page of three companies to see whether they are remote-first or remote-friendly.
- Write your honest answers to the usual work authorisation questions and save them.
- Add every listing to your tracker with the result of your eligibility check.
Practise
Keep handy
Before moving on: Twenty real remote listings run through your eligibility check, with the country, time zone, employment type and pay notes logged, and a short list of the ones you can genuinely apply to.
The biggest waste I see is people applying to "Remote, US only" roles from other countries and wondering why nobody replies. Read the small print first. A shorter list of roles you can actually take beats three hundred applications into a wall.