The Complete Guide to a remote work, based on personal experience

In July Tilda held webinarDedicated to the practice of remote work. This material contains the main points thereof: search a remote work to organize the workflow and remain popular person. Tilda employees also shared personal experiences, how they managed to live in Bali and cope with work tasks effectively.

1. Formats remote work

There are three options for remote operation: continuous, partial and freelancing. Briefly tell about how they differ.

freelance

Frequent beginners misconception that the only possible way to work remotely - this freelance. But this is only one scenario: you can find the customer on the specialized resources and to work with him one-time fee - to complete the project and to look next.

Constant remote work

This format, when you have a full-time job in the conventional sense: you are officially employed in the company and each month receive a salary. But do not go to the office and work from anywhere in the world.

Partial remote work

This mixed format you're working in the office, but the guide allows a certain number of hours a week or a month working from home. Thus, you can plan your own schedule and use the available slots at the sole discretion.

2. Where to look for remote work

Employers have long understood that you should not limit your search to only Moscow. Thus they can not only save on the salary (let's be honest, some employers pay for this reason attention to udalonku), but also to attract large projects professionals who have already reached the ceiling in his home city. Here are some options where to look for remote work.

Traditional sites with vacancies

On HeadHunter, SuperJob and other resources, which publishes proposals for the office staff, there are vacancies for udalonschikov. And there are many more than you realize.

On Web sites for freelancers

Using services like Freelance.ru, Remote Ok, Upwork you can try to project work, if not previously worked remotely. Perhaps the single orders - this is just what you need to try to imagine such a format of work and decide it suits you or not.

In social networks

And in "VKontakte", and Facebook has a large group for a job search. I can recommend community "Jobs for good people" (VK, FB), Where most of the proposals involves remote or partially remote work. There are jobs in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities. Occasionally publishes offers of foreign companies.

The channels Telegram

For example, there is a channel Paul Fedorov "standards work", Which publishes the vacancy for SMM-specialists, editors, copywriters, marketers. In the first place the emphasis goes to udalonschikov. Or channel "Bounty Hunting: vacancy for remote work": 50 000 subscribers and regular announcements of vacancies in the good companies.

3. How to get a remote work

Vacancy specialist support Tilda sent me one. When I looked at the requirements, then I wondered if I could qualify. So what advice I can give of myself, do not be afraid to respond to the job, which, in your opinion, is too complicated for you. Employers are generally described in the requirements of maximum and screened uncertain people.

the recruitment process is as follows: I responded to the open position HeadHunter and received the test task. It was calculated on 30 minutes, but it took me 50. After the test was the interview stage. We agreed on a convenient time and phoned in to Skype.

So I got in Tilda and began to work remotely from home. No complications have arisen: I practiced a half shifts, doing their own thing, and then sat down to work again. It was cool because I used to spend two hours a day on the way to work and back.

Three life hacking, to help find a remote work

1. Find out whether you can go to a remote format of your current work. This is the easiest and most comfortable option. Talk to your supervisor and explain the situation to him: you do not want to spend an hour or two on the way to the office every day, so the only option that suits you - it udalonka. If this option is possible, negotiate how the transition will take place. If not - think more like to develop within the company.

2. Write to employers directly. It often happens that a company in which you would like to work, there are no vacancies on the site. Try to write a letter with a proposal and a description of how you can be helpful. A high probability that the company is willing to work with udalonschikami under certain conditions. Even if your direction no vacancies, do not hesitate to offer their services.

3. Match jobs with work in the office. Let's say you met at HeadHunter or SuperJob position, which is clearly written work in the office, at a metro station. Respond and send a letter to the detailed description of your professional experience, you can be useful and why you think what you need to get the job. But specify that live in Kursk and successfully working remotely. Even large companies pay attention to the letter, if the specialist really deserves it.

4. Features of Bali

I worked remotely from Rostov-on-Don, but wanted to try to live abroad. So when I learned that Ivan goes to Bali, I decided to go for it - when there is a familiar, more calmly in a foreign country. Before that, I did not go neither to Turkey nor in Egypt, I was not in the near abroad - for me it was the first big trip.

About what looked like our time: on the island of life can not be compared with life in the city. Now I look out the window, and then concrete slabs, prefabricated houses. And there around the unusually beautiful views: the ocean on one side, on the other - the sea, the third - mountains, forests, rice fields.

It seems that no workplace is changing, and you yourself are changing. Environment strongly affects you. Pleasant to work there, even if the conditions are worse than urban. For example, in Bali, I did not have a special job: working at home for a coffee table or went to a cafe.

We had one advantage - time zones. We were able to get up early, go somewhere or go surfing, and at 11 am local time, sat down to work - at 6 am Moscow. That is, we had 4-5 hours in the morning and 4 hours during the break to rest and explore the island.

With the Internet in Bali is worse than in Russia. So when there is a problem with the connection, we went to Warung - a small cafe, where there is free Wi-Fi. And of course, We have always been with the mobile Internet, but it is quite expensive: 600-1 500 rubles for 30 GB Internet, which is not always working.

When I was tired of working in Krasnoyarsk, I bought tickets to Bali took hostel for the first month and went to a country about which he knew nothing before. All questions were solved already in place. Here are some tips might be useful to those who want to repeat our experience.

How to get a visa to Indonesia

For up to one month visa is not necessary to do. If you want to stay for a couple of months, enough to pay a visa at the airport on arrival. It costs $ 35 and gives the opportunity to stay on the island to 2 months without leaving the country. The only thing to do - after the first month to extend the visa. It is also worth $ 35 if you make yourself, and $ 50 if the charge office.

After the end of the visa you need to leave the country and repeat the procedure for the subsequent stay. In Malaysia, you can make a social visa (must be a letter from a resident of Indonesia, can be done through an agency) immediately for 6 months. This visa can be extended directly to Bali, but you can not leave the country - will burn.

Where better to rent an apartment and how much it costs

Accommodation costs are not higher than in Russia, but the quality is better. Medium variant will cost about three million Indonesian rupiah - about 13 000 rubles per month. This guest house, essentially a small hotel. We lived in a room with air conditioning, large beds and all amenities. Kitchen shared by 5 rooms. Near the bar, swimming pool, parking for bikes. Includes Wi-Fi and maid service once a week.

Getting around the island

Surprisingly, but in Bali is no public transport. Therefore, the bike rental here is the mandatory business, as well as search for housing. Prices range from 600 thousand rupees per month to 2 million. The ruble is 2 500-8 500 per month. 2 500 rubles you get a moped to get around the island, and for 8500 - take off Kawasaki Ninja and enjoy the speed.

How much does a meal in Bali

Prices for local and tourists can differ by an order. For example, coconut costs 40 rubles - and it can have a drink and something to eat. Serve rice with chicken - 60 rubles. That is, for 150 rubles can be a good dinner and a drink of fresh juice, if you know where. I have met so that the price of the same dishes increases up to ten times if you eat in the restaurant, not in the cafe, where they feed on the local.

Do I need a medical insurance

Required. I did not need it, but my friend needed help doctors twice due to poisoning and toothache. If insurance did not, he would have had to pay 80-100 thousand. Medical care is very expensive.

5. How to organize the work so as not to fail clients and colleagues

To communicate with colleagues using chat Telegram, it is convenient to share anything. Periodically we test and other services, such as changing the platform to schedule - trying to find the most suitable.

We also try to meet with colleagues, if intersect in some cities. Tilda part of the team to communicate in person, and we are trying to call up video chats. For example, on Fridays we spend hangout where all the support staff to discuss the problem in a week and say that you want to add, what to look for.

When the team comes a beginner, we do not need to explain that we have a remote work - it becomes clear in the course of interview. We, in turn, help him to gradually enter into the swing of things. We only "for", if the newcomer will ask questions, and to celebrate we have in their tasks. We help and does not load the complex issues on the backend, until he mastered the highlights.

Specialist, who wants to start working remotely, can give three simple advice.

• Mark the area in his apartment, where you will work. Do not let anyone go on a gun shot all day. If not abstragirueshsya, you will pull the whole day, and does not normally work on.
• I do not regret the money on a good chair and desk.
• Run, swim, go to the gym, play football, basketball, practice yoga. Choose anything, but be sure to engage in physical activity.

Basically communication we have going on in the Telegram. But we also use different task-manager Trello. There we register our requests, tasks, bugs. And when the problems are solved, adding new.

Sometimes there are non-trivial tasks, such as when users are asked to opportunities, which we have not even thought of. We look at the reaction of users: if going 30-40 the same query, be sure peredaom them to the developers.

We have built a small hierarchy: we communicate with users reveal requests and bugs, peredaom their frontend- or back-end professionals. If a good answer I need help with the developer, then send it to a special chat.

Build process was very simple. I worked remotely in Moscow, and now - in Tbilisi. All working communication have concentrated in the Telegram, its complement Trello, and Google Docs. It turned out, everything can be done remotely.

But there is its own peculiarities: on a remote work, I lost sleeping modeSo I can wake up at 12 o'clock, and go to sleep at 4am. Therefore, colleagues can write at 3am. But I do not require an immediate response. If they have a different mode, they just do the job when it is convenient. so often it turns out that when I wake up, I have already sent the results.

To build processes when working with remote employees do not need to do something unusual: just explain to them how things are going. Any adequate person will be able to work remotely. And if you can not, then he will not cope in the office. To stay demanded specialist on udalonke, you need to do the same as in normal operation: do their jobs well, be connected and able to communicate with people.

6. How to work out of the office and not feel disconnected from life

One of the frequent problems udalonschikov with which familiar to many of my colleagues, and I myself have experienced it once - it is a kind of isolation from the world. Personally, I have two ways to help deal with it. The first way - I artificially invent excuses to get out of the house. Even if I do not need anything in the store, I figured out what to buy, once again to walk 10-15 minutes. And the second way - is travels.

When I worked in the office, everything chattered, talking, and by the end of the day you communicate enough. The remote operation it is not so - there is lack of communication. Therefore I'd like to go out, talk, walk. In my spare time I communicate with family and friends.

Travel reboot and help to cope with the fact that most of the time you spend at home.

Socialization has not been canceled, I meet with my friends. But I also have two more life hacking. Once a week I go out to work in coworking cafés or for the whole day. This is no big deal in Russia is easy to find a place with good internet. The second thing that invigorates me - extreme sports. Two or three times a week, I'm doing something similar. Wakeboarding, skiing, surfing, bungee jumping... After such activity as if you have not worked for a year and start all over again. Only with the experience that has accumulated.

If we compare the office and remote work, office for me is still preferable. But the secret is that you can not work for too long in one place. Office better by the fact that it is a special place where people come to work - it does not lie on the couch in his underwear. But even if you sit in the office for too long, the productivity is reduced. So when freelancing, I constantly got out in cafes, libraries, coworking.

7. What will be demanded specialist

I have two pieces of advice from personal experience and the experience of my colleagues to help remain in demand. Both the Board based on the fact that every remote employee is hidden out of sight of the large companies and well-known HR-specialists.

Get out at public events

At least from time to time, every six months or a year, take a trip to a major conference in Moscow or St. Petersburg. This is an opportunity pozadavat questions to colleagues and experts, learn something new, meet people. It will become more prominent in their field.

Talks about his work

All have something to tell you. Share interesting things from his experience in a blog, social networks, Telegram-channel or on YouTube. If you are doing the SMM, tell us how to use the new mechanics in social networks. Tell us about the new approaches to the infographic, if you are a designer. Or show anything interesting happening in your work. Share it to the people around you, and followers can see, you can be helpful. And when they have a need arises to hire staff with the same skills, they will remember you. Even if they are in Moscow and you are in Novosibirsk.

I have been working remotely for a year, and, in my opinion, is the best thing that can happen to a person. But this realization came not at once.

In the beginning it was hard, when I had to learn how to switch from the "I am resting at home" in the state "but I'm working." I had no job and sofa so possessed by that to just lie. Friends gave advice on self-organization: to equip the workspace to draw a clear distinction to have workers' circles, and even change into work clothes. Very good advice, which I did not use. It turned out, the most effective for me - make a list of tasks to perform them, and expunged.

Lacked socialization. In the office between the execution of the tasks you can chat with colleagues, share jokes, play, and in the evening go to the bar. Big openspeys to this disposal - a lot of colleagues, a lot of friends. And when you work remotely, the break between the tasks of the maximum can go to the kitchen to fry patties.

If we compare the results of the remote and office work, then out of the office personal effectiveness higher. Something that was a plus in terms of socialization, turned and minus when you distract colleagues laughing and chatting flooding, the likelihood of concentrated work rolls to zero. Therefore, before most of the tasks I have to do at home when no one says and does not bother.

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