Get That Remote Job

What it does

Get That Remote Job is a step-by-step process to get the remote job of your dreams. Discover how you can build your online presence and show your skills to your future employer.

Get That Remote Job — a playbook, adapted for the AI era. Show the work, or it didn’t happen.

Skip the commute. Work from home. Or from anywhere you want. I’m Ahmed. I taught myself software engineering, used this process to get a remote job at Automattic in 2018, and I’ve been remote since. I also hire remote people. I wrote this from both sides. When I was applying, I had the skills. I still didn’t get a look. Hundreds of applications, sometimes more than a thousand, for one role. Getting a human to look is the hard part. I moved lines around on my resume. Nothing changed. The problem wasn’t the resume. I couldn’t show the work. AI made that worse. It writes the job posts, screens the applications, and can fake a first draft of most portfolio work. A landing page that looks…from getthatremotejob.com

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