Announcing the Digital Nomad Job Board

on 7-02-2009 in Travel Advice, Travel Lifestyle

UPDATE: As of whenever you happen to be reading this, the Digital Nomad Job Board is no longer available. Apologies for those of you who found this site in your wireless career searches. Good luck!

If you ever tried to find a 100% online job, you know that while employers have caught up to the digital nomad trend, the job search sites haven’t been as quick to adapt.  Sites like Monster.com, Hotjobs.com, Craigslist all want you to search by location.  If you’re location independent, where do you search?  Craigslist even breaks out their cities into different websites, so each job search is a new page to find!  Good luck if you’d like to do a nation wide search on people looking to hire a web worker.  Most of the major sites don’t have a “remote employee” option and even when they do, you still find yourself searching multiple sites to find all the opportunities.  Why isn’t there a job board designed for folks who work outside the cubicle?  There are, but employers still use the ‘name brand sites” 99% of the time.  For these and many more reasons, I’m very happy to announce:

Introducing  Work Wirelessly: The Job Board for the Digital Nomad

I’ve added this new job search page to Almost Fearless in the hopes it will help all my fellow digital nomads find online jobs and assignments from the big job sites.  The search lists all job postings from:

  • Monster.com
  • Hotjobs.com
  • Craiglist.org (317 cities)
  • ProBlogger.net
  • Dice.com

I’ve brought all of these sites together and then filtered them to include only jobs labeled, categorized or described as Telecommuting, Work from Home or 100% remote.

One search, all sites.

Work Wirelessly, online career, travel website, digital nomad

So go, check it out.  It’s not perfect!  Craigslist’s users seem to think telecommute is a type of cell phone with the way they over use it, but hopefully despite the occasional faulty entry, it’s still useful.

I definitely want your feedback, as I’m sure there will be tweaks in the weeks to come and a V 2.0 this fall.

Happy searching…

20 Comments

  1. Rene July 2, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    Oooh, how timely! I was just starting to look around for some extra work, it’s great to have another option out there. Can’t wait to start using it. Will definitely send feedback.

  2. Jacqui July 2, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    Not sure how well it’s working so far. Top result when I click on it is “Need Lawn Mow in Jackson MN” – not exactly digital :( But yes, that’s from craiglist. You can’t help that the poster doesn’t categorize correctly.

  3. Christine July 2, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    @Jacqui: Try doing a search, that tends to weed out those random ones!

  4. Technomadia July 2, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    Absolutely fantastic resource for us digital technomads :) Thank you so much for putting it together for all of us.

    I just added this to a resource in our ‘Answers to Common Excuses’ series about Jobs/Careers: http://www.technomadia.com/category/excuses/

    – Cherie
    .-= Technomadia´s last blog ..3 Benefits of Living in a Small Space =-.

  5. Jen Laceda July 2, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    Thanks for sharing. I am going to Stumble this!

  6. Benny the Irish polyglot July 3, 2009 at 2:17 am

    Had to stumble this!! I tried it for my field (translator) and it did indeed give several fresh results (all craigslist) for translation jobs mentioning telecommuting! Good initiative :D
    I think it would be more relevant to American/Canadian/Australian telecommuters though; I know you have 315 cities, but craigslist is popular mostly in North America (and maybe Australia/New Zealand??) (although there are some exceptions like Buenos Aires etc.), whereas in Europe for example we usually use other sites (www.loquo.com in Spain, http://www.gumtree.ie in Ireland etc.). I know it’s location independent, but you may still need to go through the tax system of the advertising country and perhaps need to normally be a resident of that country. All of my work comes from the EU for example.
    Anyway that comment is barely relevant considering that this works great for most English speakers of the world, so good job!!! :D Sharing this on twitter too!
    .-= Benny the Irish polyglot´s last blog ..Imagination: your key to enjoying memorizing hundreds of words quickly =-.

  7. Christine July 3, 2009 at 5:47 am

    @Benny

    I would definitely like to add an outside the US section. I’m not as familiar with European job boards so your suggestions are a great start. If anyone else has non-US sites I could add, let me know. I’ll likely end up creating a second “European board” seeing as EU passport holders can work in multiple countries.

    Also, Benny if you the word for telecommute in multiple languages, let me know!

    Thanks!

  8. Cody McKibben July 3, 2009 at 7:03 am

    Cool tool Christine! Thanks for sharing :)

  9. Benny the Irish polyglot July 3, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    For a list of 15 translations, go to the wikipedia entry on telecommuting and scroll down and look at the translations on the left. Click each one and copy the part after the last slash :) Wikipedia is actually a very good dictionary for us translators in some circumstances ;)
    Most languages just literally say tele-work, like teletrabajo in Spanish and télétravail in French for example.

    A European board would be very interesting indeed! The broadest I can be in giving you sites more relevant to Europe would be to recommend Kijiji. Go here and scroll to the bottom and you’ll see non-US countries. This links to the Spanish loquo and gumtree that I mentioned before. These are both our closest things to craigslist. Like craigslist, each one breaks up further into sub-sites for each city/region. I found jobs, accommodation etc. years ago through loquo in Spain in several different cities! Its popularity will otherwise depend on the country/city :)

    It isn’t that straightforward in most places though; here in Prague I found my accommodation (and jobs can be searched too) through the expats.cz website, but it is more forum-like. If you manage to somehow bring together all of these different sites, it will be quite the achievement!!

    Best of luck; I’ll be looking out for the Euro-job board!! (Don’t need it myself, but boy do I ever get pestered a lot by friends wishing for a quick answer on how to be location independent; I’d just refer them to your search tool in future :P )
    .-= Benny the Irish polyglot´s last blog ..Imagination: your key to enjoying memorizing hundreds of words quickly =-.

  10. Christine July 3, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Thanks Benny! I’ll definitely look to add that as the next feature!

    If anyone else has any European job boards you’d like to see, let me know!

  11. Caleb July 3, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    I would love love love love love if there was a Work Wirelessly RSS feed.

  12. Christine July 3, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    There is, but I didn’t put it on the page, because I figured that not many people would want to get “all” the job postings. Maybe I can change that, if I hear from folks that would be more useful.

    Here is the feed is you want it:

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/WorkWirelesslyJobBoardByAlmostfearlesscom

  13. Anthony July 4, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    Fantastic… especially after I got laid off yesterday. Viva la vida, woo!…. nothing like going through summer vacation 4 years after high school was said and done with.

  14. Dan July 5, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    Good work :)

  15. Liz July 6, 2009 at 1:32 am

    Wow, this is a great resource! I’ve been checking through the jobs, dreaming of the day when I’m freelancing and able to apply–it’s in my bookmarks.
    .-= Liz´s last blog ..Extended Travel is Good for Your Wallet =-.

  16. soultravelers3 July 8, 2009 at 5:56 am

    Excellent resource! I’ll add a link to my site and tweet it.

    We do not need it, but I can see how it will help many and the trend of digital nomads keeps growing by leaps and bounds in the last year. I think that trend will continue with the world economy problems which should be around for a long time. I love seeing people find more freedom for themselves!

    Ah, I can see that you are home…love all the new changes on your website. We are on the move & often unplugged so I am just now finding it.

    Thanks Christine..brava…..fantastic idea!

  17. soultravelers3 July 8, 2009 at 6:00 am

    Oops, might as well add my last post…so you can all enjoy a little travel porn of one of the world’s most beautiful coasts! ;) I didn’t realize I had to check it.

  18. Stevo July 10, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Great stuff, Christine. This is really needed.
    .-= Stevo´s last blog ..23 differences between 5-Star Hotels and Hostels =-.

  19. Migration Mark July 23, 2009 at 7:26 am

    Hey, Thanks for putting this up. I will be searching it for a location independent job when my money starts to deplete.

  20. Matthew October 27, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    What happened to the “Work Wirelessly Job Board for Digital Nomads”? It’s been taken down. Is that permanent ?