I hate when people tell me to “just be yourself

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I hate when people tell me to “just be yourself.” But in remote interviews, dialing back the corporate speak and acting like yourself makes you more trustworthy. I’ve noticed that a lot of remote workers (remote hiring managers) seem to, for some reason, have higher emotional intelligence than usual. They’ll be able to tell if you are being genuine.

I talked about self-reflection a little earlier: here comes some more internal pondering.

Outside of hiring trustable people, remote companies want people that are passionate about what they do.

If you are getting a remote job just because you hate your work, and you’re hoping that working from home will help…unfortunately, it won’t. Working from home might even make it worse.

Working from home offers myriad wonderful distractions. Your TV might be calling your name at lunch, and your dog might be calling your name all day. If you’re not motivated to work, you likely won’t work if no one is looking over your shoulder.

Remote work is reserved for people that love, or at least really like what they are doing. Sounds harsh, but your motivators need to be in the right place. If you show your remote interviewer how much you actually care about your work, I promise, it will resonate with them.

To recap: be genuine and show passion for your work (one way to demonstrate that interest is to start a albania phone number library , share clever blog post ideas in your field and eventually even make money blogging). Or, you could start a podcast of your own and demonstrate the level of initiative you’re willing to take on a subject you care deeply about… just be sure you choose the right podcast hosting, if you do.

Now that you are ready to nail the soft skills portion of the interview, some hard skills are necessary for working remotely:

Remote companies are looking for problem solvers. This might come in the form of start-up experience, entrepreneurial experience, internally innovative people (intrapreneurs), or just plain other remote work experience.

Why do they want this experience? Because there will come a time where you’ll have a question, and your entire company might be unavailable. They’ll want you to be versatile, and capable of solving problems on your own.

When I worked in an office, my boss was in the cubicle across from me. If there was an emergency, I could just run over to her and say, HELP!

To be clear, Slack and other communication tools exist for a reason. You probably won’t be left to the wolves often. But remote companies are looking for autonomous workers. In the interview process, be ready to speak about your autonomous work experience.

Don’t think you have autonomous work experience? Don’t worry, nobody really does… unless you’ve worked remotely or started your own business before. Time to get creative.