Making remote job seeking less of a hassle

How we search for remote jobs now, and what we can do to make it easier

I am currently rounding up my research phase, and stepping into my ideation phase. To start ideating and designing, I had taken the time to sit down and reflect on my research project and my findings. In this article I would like to share a bit about my process, and also give some insights into the topic of my project: to find ways to makee the process of remote job searching on online job boardsless frustrating for remote job seekers.

The why

A little over a year ago I started searching more seriously for remote roles. But man, it was frustrating, and there were a number of reasons for that:

I eventually found a job, although it took a while, and I have been working remotely for a little less than a year. Once I settled into my job, I started looking to the future again. I was interested in developing skills that would make me more eligible for the remote job market.

This started from a very personal problem, but also something I am passionate about. I am convinced that remote work is the future for many reasons (which may be food for another article), and I think that the existing job boards do not do a very good job facilitating that market — even the job boards that were specifically created for this purpose!

As such, I started my research, and because I am still in the generative phase of my research, I did qualitative interviews with remote job seekers. After sending out a screener form, I ended up interviewing 7 remote job seekers, and I spoke with 2 recruiters in the field to gain more insights from their perspective as well. The overall purpose of the research was to uncover the major pain points in remote job searching from the perspective of the job seeker.

A look into the current remote-job market

To start off, I did some secondary and competitor research into the existing job boards as well as what is known about remote job searching. This led me to the following conclusions:

As one of the main pieces of advice appears to be to focus on job boards that cater to remote job searching, I also looked at the competition. I found over 30 job boards that offer remote jobs and/or are specialized in the remote job market. These 30 were selected from different lists of ‘ the xx best remote job boards’ articles. After analyzing and testing these job boards, I came to the following conclusions:

One of the challenges I faced was to let go of my own experiences and biases when it comes to remote job seeking, and to let my research be led by the data I encountered. Nonetheless, a lot of findings did overlap with some of the main pain points I assumed I would find, and my findings left me confident that there is room for further exploration and improvement in this field, and that it would be worth my while to try to get in touch with remote job seekers to learn more about their experiences. The next step is to validate whether actual users experience these pain points in the same way, or not.

Stay tuned for part two of this article, where I’ll get into my interview process and findings!

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