New Years Remote Job Resolutions
While the ball may have dropped, are you ready to make 2023 the year you don't drop the ball?
Is this finally the year you find the remote job of your dreams and claim the freedom and flexibility you've been craving?
If you’re ready to step into your power and find the remote job of your dreams, this year is for you.
But, it takes the right mindset and intentions to make it happen. Read this article to start your year off on the right foot and make the magic happen.
1. How to Gain Confidence in Your Remote Job Search
The first step to creating a new life is the belief that it can exist. If you can't visualize your ideal situation, you'll never actualize it. Not believing you can get a remote job yet simultaneously searching for one is like a minister who preaches but doesn't believe in God.
Cultivating belief is a different path for everyone.
The only linear way to belief, in my opinion, is the process of gaining confidence. The trick for gaining confidence in anything you do?
The 4 C's:
This forever changed the way I think about confidence and it's meaning in my life. Initiating confidence is incredibly important to achieving your potential in life. Use this framework of The 4 C's to find more confidence and ultimately achieve your goals.
Step 1: Commitment
Commitment is the pre-requisite. Most people fail because their commitment to their current situation is stronger than the one to their potential future.
Step 2: Courage
You don't need to always know the "how." Once you commit 100% - you begin to live in a place of courage, not fear, and you build your belief systems which often become self-fulfilling prophecies.
Step 3: Capacity
As you act courageously, your mind, body, and spirit increase in capacity. You use feedback loops to think critically and solve problems. You prove you can do more than you thought.
Step 4: Confidence
You internalize the confidence in your self and your ability to succeed at this level. Now it's on to the next, and the entire cycle starts over again!
2. Identify Your Perfect Remote Job
Alice: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
The Cheshire Cat: “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”
Alice: “I don’t much care where.”
The Cheshire Cat: “Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.”
—Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Similar to the Alice in Wonderland scenario... if you don't know what you want your life to look like in your ideal future, then wouldn't any job get you there?
Start by asking one big, important question: “What will my life look like after I get my ideal position?” Your answer is going to impact how you search for a job, the types of companies you go after, and the roles you pursue. So take some time to actually imagine yourself there, living your future life.
3. Target a Remote Company You Love
See, most job seekers start with job boards. They put their metaphorical hands out, asking the job board Gods what they have for them... just hoping something that's reasonably a fit for them is listed there.
This is REACTIVE! It's using hope as a strategy, instead of being PROACTIVE in narrowing down a list of target companies that fit the criteria you desire, beforehand.
The benefit of creating selection criteria for a type of company before your search is that it helps you qualify the company instead of the job role. That way you minimize your chances of taking a job with the wrong type of company, or applying to an organization that's not going to allow you to live the ideal lifestyle you have in mind anyway. Once you determine what companies are your top 25 or so, you can start narrowing down even further.
Selecting Your Criteria
Here are a few ideas on how to select criteria for companies. I recommend trying to narrow this down to get as specific as you can get, that way, when you use filters to try to search for them, you get a list that's manageable to search through. Think of the IDEAL situation.
Answer the following for yourself:
What industry is the company in? (Try to get down to 1-2 at most)
What size is the organization?
What types of benefits do they offer?
How do they describe the culture?
What kind of causes are important to the company?
How "remote" are they? How do they feel about remote work?
Where do they hire?
How are they innovating or what are they creating?
How diverse is their workforce/upper management?
[Add your own question here!]
Picking Your Top Companies
Once you have some of these answered, it's time to look for companies that fit your criteria! Don't go down wormholes at this stage. To start your brainstorm, try to make a large list first, remembering you're going to cut it down later.
Think about the following:
Which companies are top of mind that you admire or want to work at?
Which companies make products or services you're aligned with or use frequently?
Which companies serve the market you're interested in?
Which companies are innovating or growing in a
Which company creates something that won't bore you to death and that you actually might be passionate about?
Which companies do you know people work there and love it?
[Add your own question here!]
After getting those down, you can also do things like:
Search "Round-up" articles like "Top [Industry] Remote Companies"
Look at awarded companies like FlexJobs Top 100 or filter by awards won on their Company Guide
Find companies you like and look on the right hand side of LinkedIn where it says "similar companies"
This is just a taste of what's possible when finding YOUR remote company.
Now that you've got your criteria and a large list of companies, do some additional research and recon! This might include reaching out to conduct informational interviews, reading review sites online, OR becoming part of their ecosystem...
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