What are you working on?
Interview with Patryk, a Front-end Developer & UI Designer
For the past year and half, I have been co-leading the front-end development of PRNCPL, a database system tailored for art shows 🎨 .
The project is owned by MCH Group, but we're working in more of a startup environment.
My journey with PRNCPL is ending soon, and I'm switching back to being freelance from the beginning of October 2018.
Patryk has learned that there is no reason to wait for the flow - once you start working, it will happen naturally.
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Interview with Katerina, a team collaboration consultant who sees the value of discipline
I work on several projects. Some are my own, and others are from clients. For my company, I work on leadership coaching and strategic advice for team collaboration.
I analyze collaboration patterns, match these patterns with the team culture and goals, and then suggest ways to change the pattern or create processes so that if someone leaves, the team's social capital is not destroyed.
I'm also active in the human resource field where I investigate talent management practices and teach organizational culture and employee engagement.
I also work on a couple of educational innovation projects, some with a strong research focus, others more practical. Finally, I'm leading the Galway Grow Remote chapter.
Katerina fell into remote work by accident - she reveals how easy and straightforward it can be to make discipline a daily part of remote work.
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Interview with Saibu, an HR content writer for a remote company
I am a content writer at Remoteteam.com, a comprehensive HR tool built by remote professionals for remote companies and virtual teams.
I write content, help with social media management, and develop email newsletters.
On my side, I’m starting a newsletter soon as a side hustle.
My newsletter will focus on funding for emerging technologies, especially in Africa. It’s an area that I have previously worked while getting gigs with other companies during my early remote years, which has caused me to really love this sector.
Hear how Saibu, a thriving HR content writer, navigates the complexities—and perks—of working with a remote team from Ghana.
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Interview with Cameron, a designer who works remotely at a WordPress agency
I'm currently working as Creative Lead at WebDevStudios, a WordPress agency which serves a wide range of clients such as enterprise media companies, corporate blogs, startups and small businesses.
My current position means I focus on both the internal design for Sales and Marketing as well as leading design efforts for clients around User Experience and User Interface Design.
During client projects, I also act as a bridge between the engineering team and the client, helping convey the business needs and technical requirements through several Discovery sessions.
Learn how Cameron started full-time remote work after trying freelancing and starting a digital agency.
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Interview with Gino, a founder skilled in building remote teams
I’ve been leading TECLA for almost six years. We are a hiring platform that helps companies in the U.S. and Europe meet and directly hire top software professionals based throughout Latin America.
To date, we have 3,500+ pre-screened candidates in our network. Most of them are engineers, designers, data scientists, and QA analysts. We have remote candidates who work from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and many others throughout the Americas where time zones are very similar to the ones in the U.S.
For clients in North America, we typically help them recruit remote talent. Some companies also offer relocation.
For European clients, we typically help them offer relocation opportunities to candidates in our network. Hiring remotely through our network is a bit more challenging for European companies given the differences in time zones.
Gino realized how important remote work could be to finding the best talent—see his strategies for building remote teams.
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Interview with Andrew, co-founder and CEO of Insured Nomads
A lot of my energy is going into the launch of our international medical plans, keeping up with the rebrand/relaunch of our web presence, and building our broker and brand ambassador/influencer network. I am also handling the family aspects of life, such as school sports and beach time.
Andrew, co-founder, and CEO of Insured Nomads talks traveling while working, productivity tools, and the best advice he has received.
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Interview with Dane, a freelance writer and author with 7 published books
I tend to have quite a lot of work on at any given time, so today I’ve worked on maybe a half dozen different projects.
I started the day by writing an article on the biggest myths about digital marketing strategy before moving on to some work I do on a retainer for a US-based company that specializes in lead generation. They build niche lead generation websites for companies in the Boston area, so I work on the website copy for each of the sites they build.
It basically involves researching and writing about the different services that they offer – whether that’s water damage repair or whether it’s for a party bus company – as well as each of the physical areas that they cover.
One of the biggest projects that I’m currently working on is a book that I’ve ghostwritten for a client in the medical field. We’ve been working on it for the best part of a year now and we’re just going through the final few stages ahead of publication. At the moment, it’s on hold while we wait for his proof copy to arrive as we’ve been making a few last minute tweaks to the cover with his cover designer.
Another project I’ve just had the go-ahead for involves taking the transcriptions of some how-to/tutorial videos about some live-streaming software and turning it into an instruction manual.
I also have a few other one-off articles to do for people on the subject of digital marketing, and then there’s some more retained work for a client who’s a bestselling author and who outsources some of her writing work to me. She works as a consultant with a number of other clients and often gets me to help with that, so for example I recently had to create a 20-page “blueprint” out of a 200-page book that just included the most important information.
Dane is a freelance writer and author who works remotely, and balances client work with writing his own books.
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Interview with Kristi, a CEO and remote team leader
A LOT is happening these days! I run a fully remote content marketing firm called Founders Marketing, with a distributed team that spans ten time zones. We develop content and social strategy for organizations focused on the future of learning and the future of work—so learning design firms, popular education blogs, remote-focused startups, edtech companies, and mentoring platforms are all part of our current client portfolio.
My background is in marketing communications in the education space, so they appreciate our domain expertise. The work takes the form of content audits, editorial strategy, writing (blog posts, social campaigns with imagery, case studies, etc.) and high traffic blog curation.
But behind the scenes, I'm also responsible for business development activities and all the less-than-sexy tasks tied to running the company.
Kristi is a CEO, remote work author, and speaker. In this interview, she shares the impact of new motherhood and remote team leadership on her work.
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Interview with Kirsten and Jay-Allen, remote team coaches & collaboration experts
We just created an online course, designed to improve remote meetings. Available here. Our book is also available for preorder on Amazon: The Remote Facilitator's Pocket Guide.
We're both currently working as team coaches at eyeo. We're also involved in running company-wide, remote events, such as our Remote Open Space, which happened at the end of January.
Outside of work, we support and train teams and individuals to bring about healthy collaboration in their remote spaces. We also host a session once a month where a group of facilitators can come together and practice remote facilitation and get feedback.
Remote team coaches, Kirsten and Jay-Allen, offer three pieces of advice for new remote workers and reveal the one question every remote job seeker should prepare to answer.
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Interview with Alaina, a nonprofit program state director
I’m currently planning a re-launch of our Atlanta and Columbus chapters. Spread The Vote is currently in nine states, but Georgia was one of the first states, so I am excited to re-introduce our work in those cities that helped build STV in the state.
Our volunteer-led chapters allow us to operate around the state and reach clients in every community. In preparation for the chapter launches, I have been making phone calls to recruit new partners and sending emails to find and plug in volunteers.
I am also managing our social media page, doing publicity and engagement. Another important and ongoing task is fundraising for specific efforts in the state including the chapter launches, purchasing swag and most importantly paying for the IDs and supporting documents for clients.
It takes a minute to find your rhythm in a new remote position—hear how Alaina organizes her time to hit the ground running in a new remote work job.
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