Job Board FAQ

What does the Job Board for Digital Nomads do?

Two things:

1. This job board pulls job listings from multiple sources so that you can do all of your job searching from one place.
2. It also tries to limit the results to those jobs that are 100% remote, although sometimes badly worded, mis-categorized or just plain misleading job posts get past the filter (see below).
   

What’s the point?

Hopefully it’s useful.  If you’re looking for 100% remote work, there are some job boards that feature this, but most employers still use the big ones: monster, craigslist, hotjobs or dice.  If you’ve ever tried to search Craigslist in particular, you know you have to search each city in the country– there is no nationwide search!  This tool lets you search those sites in one place and automatically eliminates desk bound jobs as best as it can. Each posting links back to the original site.

What sites are being mashed together?

Everything we could find:

• Every single Craigslist.org subdomain’s (hundreds of them, by city)  job listings where the posting’s telecommuting option set to YES
• Monster.com postings that had “100% Remote”, “Work from home” or “telecommute” somewhere in the description
• Hotjobs.com results that had “100% Remote”, “Work from home” or “telecommute” somewhere in the description
• Dice.com results that had “100% Remote”, “Work from home” or “telecommute” somewhere in the description
• All problogger.net blogger job postings

Why are some of the jobs remote or telecommuting and others are clearly not?  Isn’t there a way to filter these?

Here’s the problem.  There isn’t a single word that means “remote” or “out of office” but some sites, like craigslist have a cool option to flag a job listing as “telecommuting ok”.  Unfortunately some people are not paying attention and click this when they really don’t mean to.  That can be the only explanation why one company was looking for a fork lift driver and checked “telecommuting ok”.  Unless, they actually wanted  me to drive a fork lift in my own yard and just report back to them on how it’s going, we can chalk these kinds of things up to user error.

The other thing that can happen is when it’s searching a big site like Monster.com for new listings, someone can say NO REMOTE EMPLOYEES or Remote employees not preferred or 101 other ways to negate exactly what the aggregator is trying to pick up.  So it sees the word Remote or Telecommute, but within the context it is clear they actually mean the opposite.  Sorry, but search aggregators are really bad at getting context.  They also don’t get jokes, but that’s another story.

How often is the list updated?

The list is updated hourly, but not every site that we poll updates their RSS feeds that quick, so some sites might only have new results every 6-24 hours.