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Remote Work Career Strategy

A remote career run on purpose: the right remote roles found and vetted, a home set-up that holds up, written visibility your manager can see, relationships kept warm across time zones and a plan for staying promotable.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Remote Work Career Strategy, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🧭 Career Growth

Remote Work Career Strategy

Finding remote roles and staying visible, promotable and well-connected while working away from the office.

  1. Remote work non-negotiables and preferences
  2. Remote-first versus remote-tolerated employer research
  3. Location eligibility check for remote roles
  4. Camera, microphone and lighting set-up for calls
  5. Home internet resilience and backup connection
  6. Evidence that you work well remotely
  7. Personal working README for colleagues
  8. Time zone overlap map for your team
  9. Twelve-month remote career goal
  10. Weekly written update to your manager
  11. Public work log in the team channel
  12. Monthly virtual coffee rota
  13. Quarterly in-person time plan
  14. Remote job board saved searches and weekly review
  15. Monthly demo of your work to a wider audience
  16. Focus blocks and working hours across time zones
  17. Decision records for remote work
  18. Quarterly remote career health check
  19. Writing for async decisions
  20. Running video meetings people want to attend
  21. Remote collaboration tools fluency
  22. Async code review and pull request writing
  23. On-camera presenting for remote audiences
  24. Cross-cultural communication on global teams
  25. Weekly plan you publish to your team
  26. Remote, hybrid or office decision for your next move
  27. Location-based pay policies compared
  28. Return-to-office mandate response plan
  29. Employee or contractor for an overseas employer
  30. Remote job offer and recruiter scam check
  31. Choosing in-person events worth the travel
  32. Location policy check before moving home
  33. Remote interview day technical check
  34. Company offsite or team retreat preparation
  35. First month in a fully remote job
  36. Remote evidence pack for review season
  37. Working away from home for a few weeks
  38. Remote working parent schedule and visibility
  39. Working from the Caribbean for an overseas employer
  40. On-call and incidents across time zones
  41. Remote minority on a mostly office team
  42. First-time manager of a distributed team
  43. Rebuilding your network after going remote
  44. Early career in a remote role
  45. Remote performance trial with agreed measures
  46. Staff-level influence through written strategy
  47. Public work that brings remote offers
  48. Remote working handbook for your team
  49. Mentoring other remote colleagues
  50. Long-term location and career optionality plan

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Remote work non-negotiables and preferences

Remote covers everything from a fully distributed company with no office to a hybrid team that expects you in three days a week, and job adverts blur the difference.

First tasks

  • List the three main reasons you want to work remotely
  • Write the earliest and latest hours you can take meetings
  • Set a maximum number of office and travel days you will accept
  • Separate the list into non-negotiables and nice-to-haves
  • Revisit your remote non-negotiables and update the list @recurring(yearly)

Remote-first versus remote-tolerated employer research

Companies built remote-first write things down, promote people they rarely meet and run meetings for the person on the worst connection, while remote-tolerated companies still make decisions in the office. Learning the signals that separate the two, from a public handbook to how many executives work remotely, stops you joining a firm where remote staff are quietly second class.

First tasks

  • Write the eight signals you will use to judge remote culture
  • Read the public handbook or careers page of ten target employers
  • Score each employer against the signals in one table
  • Message two former employees of your top choice for a short call

Location eligibility check for remote roles

Many remote adverts quietly mean remote within one country, one region or a set of time zones, because employers can only payroll staff where they have an entity or an employer of record. Knowing where you can legally be hired, and on what basis, saves hours of applications to roles that were never open to you.

First tasks

  • Write down your tax residence and right-to-work status
  • Collect ten location phrases from remote adverts and note their meaning
  • Find out how employer of record services hire in your country
  • List the tax and permit questions to put to an accountant

Make it yours.

Install Remote Work Career Strategy, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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