In addition to the (real, but somewhat overblown) downturn in tech, the main problem is that hiring is fucked. Both sides are in a scam/fraud arms race.

Getting a job through the front door is basically impossible now - and if you want to try, you will need to lie and do all the dirty tricks your competition does, and even then, your conversion rate will be minuscule.

An alternative is either to go through your network (where people you know can vouch that you are real and not just a monkey slinging ChatGPT'd resumes from a boiler room) or in-person (which is immune to a lot of the boiler-room scams and thus you have more chance your application will actually be considered).

Global remote has been on a bit of a downturn in the last few years.

There are many decent job boards out there, but the bigger problem is that many of them don't allow specifying remote within a country, or the US-oriented companies that post on them never specify that they only want remote within the US.

You end up wasting time looking at a cool job that pays well, only to see "Remote (US only)".

Job market is bad right now. I don't even see many local remote jobs (in Canada). Some say "remote" but then they are actually "hybrid" when you meet the recruiter.

Another thing I found out is that many companies hire contractors through contracting agencies and their hiring is ... horrible to say the least.

Open source companies often have fully remote global jobs.

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

Hacker News monthly threads. Frequencies of Remote jobs in there rises and falls, some months have more than others. But a lot (almost all) of my income over the last few years has been from HN or references thereof

I heard North Koreans are able to find remote jobs at Fortune 500 easily.

I recently came across Remote Yeah[1], but I can't vouch for its viability personally. It might help discover some companies who are at least willing to go down the remote route.

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[1]: https://remoteyeah.com/

Can try to explore https://joblist.today (also can contribute to the open database list of companies and jobs).

We're planning to launch https://apply.coop soon that will have remote jobs listed from reputable co-ops.

Contribute to open source!

A lot of OSS companies are currently hiring. Contribute to their codebase to stand out, get experience, network & improve your resume. Some also share feature bounties on GitHub (https://algora.io) so you can even make money in the process.

I know dozens of engineers who landed jobs within a few months by actively contributing to OSS.

I think you have to go via your network referral. I've bought linkedin premium and can see that most jobs have 500+ candidates, not only it's impossible to apply but I have serious doubts they will chose the right person. I failed my last interview because I failed to sell myself.

There are quite a lot of interesting short-term consulting gigs on Upwork. But for anything long term, you should probably ask around among the people that already know you.

There are many job boards with remote work. Same LinkedIn.

And they are all complete crap.

My top is as follows:

1. Personal acquaintance with the hiring person.

2. A strong referral, not just a button on the site, but bring a resume to the manager and talk to him about my advantages.

3. A weak referral, button on the site. The ability to write to the recruiter by email. The HN "who is hiring" - from this point.

4. Shout out the window if anyone needs a remote employee.

5. Open job boards.

I'm South African, and international remote work seems to be popping up more these days on local job sources. Probably because we're relatively cheap.

Just worth thinking about what a company is looking for if they are looking at a foreign talent pool.

In person. I'll bring up I do IT stuff, web development. Turns out this guy's Wordpress dev vanished and he needs help with something. Then I have him for years.

Himalayas[1] was a great choice :)

[1]: https://himalayas.app/jobs

I've found my current job at Remotive dot com. Not a lot of jobs compared to other job boards however.

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Surprised Discord hasn't bubbled up in the replies so far, secret.club is a good example

levels.fyi has a job board with a "Fully remote" filter, might be worth checking out.

pick your field of interest, idenitfy the specific persons in charge of hireing, get there mailing addresses and hand write letters of introduction that you include with your chosen resume.,.....,.....,........,...,aim high