It does kind of put you on an island...
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It does disqualify you from some. Even my company, that is entirely remote, doesn’t allow for Hawaiian ( and a few other states) residents for some tax reasons.
If you have close friends or family on the mainland, try using their address for remote work applications and see if that gets your foot in the door.
Yes, Hawaii imposes its tax laws on all companies.
do you mean like. because of jealousy?
Not if you can find a remote work scenario. I have a buddy who moved to one of the islands and the company let him stay on and start later and end later to compensate for the time diff.
being a small state, there might not be jobs. and like other said change your resume wording and emails around so it doesnt get caught by a filter of a company. CS in general have very tough time finding jobs, even in the west coast, people at my uni were complaining how hard it is. unless you have 1+year experience prior to graduation it might be difficult. i come from a non-programming field.
you can try exaggerating some of the experience, if you can back it up, like if you have only 3 months, say you had 6months,and so on.
ghost jobs has been a thing since 2016 before the AI craze they were already using a very early version of it to screen out people from jobs. if you see certain jobs listing SKILLs you cant get anywhere else, that is a ghost job(they already hired that same person already and just put the listing up on the job sites, to not look discriminatory)
use different emails, or rotate to different emails every week for each resume. and your resume you might want to look at what you can change(trying to pass off school or non-cs experience,,,,,etc)
Only if 95% of them aren't hiring in Hawaii.
shakacode is based in Hawaii
Thanks, they have open applications so I sent them something.
There's more remote work options for IT staff today than ever.
Lots of us are working remote and wishing we could move to Hawaii.
I am having the hardest time getting hired. I think being in an odd time zone that no one else shares hurts not to mention the labor laws Hawaii makes employers follow.
Do you know any good resources for finding remote work?
Time zone does hurt. I think I would proactively communicate "willing to work on these timezones schedules" during the application.
Most remote friendly organizations have a good amount of flex in the workdayb hours, as long as a few daily hours overlap for everyone. This means it's often possible to meet half way, where I'm working earlier or later than is strictly ideal for y area, but my day overlaps substantially with the team.
It is a hard time to get hired, right now. It should get better once the regulation and budget cuts in US politics settle down a bit.
For remote jobs, I've still gotten most of my jobs through personal references from people I know, just like before remote work was so popular.
Not sure how long you've been looking, but just be prepared for ghost job postings and very fierce competition. My job search took nearly a year and I know folks who've been looking longer. A large percentage of job postings are outright fake or they don't actually intend to hire anyone for the position, and even real positions, especially remote ones, will have thousands of applicants. It might not be you, your location, or your resume - even if those are 100% optimized, it's a rough market right now for finding a remote tech gig.
My advice is to make sure your resume is optimised for the AI screeners most companies are using (unfortunately what I, a human, looks for in a tech resume is very different from what HR and the AI tools look for, so make sure to have multiple versions and at least one formatted to be parsed by an AI tool) and leverage your network at much as you can. Apply as soon as you can after a job is posted. Check the websites and apply mostly to smaller companies. You can apply through Linkedin or indeed but most of the "easy apply" ones are ghost jobs. Still worth hitting the button on a few hundred of those or so just to try, but they're far less likely to be of any value.
Good luck in your search.
Most remote jobs are being offshored to India or other 3rd world countries.
If the oligarchy isn't abolished asap then things will get much, much worse before it gets better