👀 Your digital first impression

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Exciting job board update today!

But first: if you missed last week’s issue, the Lifetime Access Job Guide is now live. It contains 51 remote job boards ranked and reviewed, dozens of other job seeker resources, and tons of assorted professional advice for remote workers. (Use code “SUBSCRIBER” to pay less than $5 today for lifetime access to all future updates.)

Onto this week’s big news: there is now a salary filter on the job board!

You can find the drop-down on the bottom right of the job search page as seen below:

Further, jobs with salary information posted will have their ranges or exact values displayed in the search results:

Other notes:

• In cases where companies don’t publish salary information, the algorithm will provide a salary range based on similar job titles, industry, and geographic region. These include notes that say, for example: “Similar jobs pay USD 100,000-120,000/yr.”

• Currencies other than USD are supported for global searches.

• The currency dropdown will automatically convert between currencies to show jobs that fit the user’s search range. Results will show the currency that the job was originally listed in.

Many US states and counties now require pay transparency. So companies that want to hire remote workers in the US will usually include salary information to comply with all state laws.

As a result, most jobs listed on the Remote Source job board will include salary information received directly from each hiring company.

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Remote Source Job Board

Featured companies:

Levi Strauss & Co: 29 remote jobs
insightsoftware: 46 remote jobs
Cribl: 27 remote jobs

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Need to Know

🎥 Zoom’s hypocritical Chief People Officer
We wrote a while back that Zoom was ironically forcing employees within 50 miles of an office to work from the office two days a week on a hybrid schedule.

Their Chief People Officer, Matthew Saxon, explains why:

“We’ve got customers who are completely in the office. We’ve got customers who are completely remote, and we’ve got all the various flavors of hybrid in between. We want to ensure we’re very customer-centric; that means really, truly understanding the customer use case and pain points.”

Saxon himself lives in Austin and works almost entirely remotely, because there isn’t an Austin Zoom office. How convenient!

Therefore, Zoom employees who live within 50 miles of an office are simply guinea pigs for their product development.

Is it right? Is it wrong? I don’t know, but if I worked at Zoom I’d strongly consider moving to a new city and telling my manager it’s to put myself in the shoes of Zoom’s fully remote customers. (Fortune)

👎 Struggling to find remote jobs
This Business Insider profile features Trevon Gripper, who has worked remotely since 2014, and since losing his job a year ago has applied to almost 500 jobs with no success. He’s been searching high and low for new remote openings, and he shared some of the obstacles along the way.

His biggest lesson has been that networking is crucial. Upon posting about his situation on social media, he had a massive influx of people reaching out who wanted to connect him to recruiters they knew.

He’s in the process of moving to Seattle, where jobs in his field (corporate learning and development) are more prevalent, and he expects he’ll need to be open to hybrid and onsite roles there. (Business Insider)

🤦🏼‍♀️ Hybrid aggravates 20-somethings
Younger employees are least likely to want to be either fully remote or fully in-person when working. And as you can imagine, in-person time is far more important for employees new to the workforce than those with established workforce experience.

This article shares several actionable ideas to help leaders ensure they don’t alienate their younger employees, who have shown disdain for many of today’s hybrid plans.

Among them:

• Build connections, culture, and mentorship opportunities digitally, not just physically

• Invest in redesigning workplaces as hubs for connection

• Train mid-level managers to communicate goals and expectations clearly

It’s expensive to replace employees, so it’s riskier than ever today to have remote policies that aren’t well thought-out. Companies that invest time and effort into their remote policies are sure to attract and retain the best talent. (MIT Sloan)

🚚 WFH impact on interstate migration
The St. Louis Federal Reserve found that WFH drastically increased the number of people who moved across state lines since the beginning of the pandemic.

Before covid, fully remote workers were 50% more likely to move across state lines than employees who commuted into an office. And this difference in “migration rate” actually increased after covid:

It’s especially interesting that the migration rate itself among remote workers actually increased since 2019. This is likely due to those employees who wanted to move states before 2019, but felt like they couldn’t until they were given the chance to work remotely.

With more people working remotely, and an even higher rate of WFH employees choosing to change states, we’re likely to continue seeing more interstate moves than we did pre-pandemic. (St. Louis Federal Reserve)

📊 States with the biggest changes in remote jobs
Unfortunately, fully remote jobs in the US have been on the decline in the past year, largely due to hundreds of thousands of layoffs across tech and a slowdown in tech hiring.

Looking further into the national decline, there’s a stark difference in this change across states.

Biggest losses:

• Massachusetts: 35% fewer remote jobs

• Rhode Island: 33% fewer remote jobs

• Washington, DC: 30% fewer remote jobs

• Nevada: 29% fewer remote jobs

Biggest gains:

• Louisiana: 7% more remote jobs

• Kentucky: 6% more remote jobs

• Mississippi: 1% more remote jobs

• North Dakota: .3% more remote jobs

These four above were the only states that gained remote jobs 😬

Some of the states that have lost the most remote jobs (#1 Massachusetts, #3 DC) are those that have historically had some of the highest rates of remote workers, so their rankings here aren’t too surprising. (Forbes)

Stuff We Like

🚐 Mobile homes for nomads
This list of 5 unique mobile homes includes modern and classic styles.

It’s a fun browse for anyone who’s considered roaming around the country in a camper. (Yanko Design)

👀 Crafting your digital first impression
Your “digital persona” is often what a prospective employer (or many other people, professionally or socially) will see about you before actually meeting you in person. No matter how charismatic you are in person, it’s important to properly convey yourself online during a job search. Here are tips to do so:

• Manage your Google results

• Craft an impeccable LinkedIn presence

• Buy your domain (e.g. firstnamelastname.com)

• Embrace video for both your bio and showcasing expertise

• Set up Google Alerts for your name

And finally, update your digital persona routinely so that all changes and accomplishments are on display accordingly. (Forbes)

📸 No pictures on your resume
An experienced recruiter suggests there’s no upside — and at least some downside — to including a picture on your resume. It invites “snap judgments based on appearance” which indicates to her that the applicant may be out of touch with hiring norms.

A few of her other pieces of advice:

• Don’t include your street address

• If you have an AOL email address, use a more modern email service when applying (gmail is a great free option)

• Use simple formatting on your resume

• Have a compelling resume that you can use most of the time, though it’s still worth tailoring your resume and shuffling bullets as necessary depending on each job you’re applying to

Given the difficult job market, it’s more important than ever to pay attention to those on the other side of the hiring table to understand what will get your foot in the door for interviews. (CNBC)