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Remote Worker Beginner Guide

Beginner’s Guide: What You Need to Know to Become a Top-notch Filipino Remote Worker

  • August 6, 2020
  • Leandro Eclipse
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Updated: April 13, 2021

Many dreams of working-from-home for the longest time. No more 3-hour commute. More time for your family and your endeavors, who wouldn’t want that?

There are certainly advantages and disadvantages of working-from-home. But right now, the New Normal pushed almost all businesses to operate online. You can now experience remote working as you’ve always wanted.

The problem is, how do you find remote work? Or better yet, how do you become a remote worker? Here is a beginner guide to take you from just an aspiring remote worker to a successful one.

Find-Your-Marketable-Skill

Find Your Marketable Skill

The first step is to find a skill that is marketable remotely. What are those? Usually, these are work from home jobs that require no physical presence like:

  • Virtual Assistance
  • Content writing
  • Graphic design
  • Web development
  • Digital marketing
  • Telesales
  • Customer Support

In these jobs, you just need a computer and a stable internet connection. And you’re good to go. If you’re not sure what you can apply for, try checking out your previous experiences. Are there certain skills that are related to the jobs you want to apply for? If yes, might as well try.

If you don’t have any skills at all, probably the most accessible and easy to learn for many is virtual assistance. Or view this list of easy remote working jobs you can do, even without experience.

Research on the career you want, hone your skills, and try to apply for them.

If you’re a beginner, you can also check out this free resource or these 11 reliable websites for learning remote working and freelancing skills.

Get-the-Equipment

Get the Equipment

In remote work, you need skills and equipment to bridge you to opportunities with clients. If you found your skill already, you just need to use the best equipment available. Here are the recommended specs:

General VA or Non-Creative Work Creative Work

(Graphic Designers, Web Developers, Video Editing, etc.)

RAM Minimum 2GB

Recommended 4-8GB or higher

Minimum 8GB

Recommended 16GB or higher

Processor Minimum: Intel Celeron G4900 Recommended: Intel i3 7th Gen or AMD Ryzen 3 2nd Gen, or higher Minimum: Intel i5 7th Gen or AMD Ryzen 5 2nd gen

Recommended: Intel 7th gen i7, AMD Ryzen 7 2nd gen, or higher

HDD or SSD Minimum: 128 GB

Recommended: 256 GB or higher

Minimum: 256 GB

Better Have External HDD or SSD with 1 TB storage for media files.

Video Card Minimum: 4 GB Minimum: 8GB
Monitor Minimum: 12 inches Minimum: 13 inches
Accessories Mouse, Keyboard, Noise-Cancelling Headphones Mouse, Keyboard, Noise-Cancelling Headphones

 

This is just a rough guide. You don’t have to start with the best-specced equipment at first. You can check out this resource for a more in-depth guide. But for now, use what you can, and upgrade when you earn the money.

Build-your-Soft-Skills

Build Your Soft Skills

Even with the technical skills and equipment, not everyone can be a remote worker. There are certain soft skills that you need to have in order to become a successful remote worker. Here are some:

  • Independence
  • Time Management
  • Communication skills
  • Flexibility
  • Professionalism
  • Initiative
  • Trustworthiness
  • Integrity

With this, you can ensure that you can work well with your boss and other teammates.

Learn-How-to-Communicate-and-Collaborate

Learn How to Communicate and Collaborate

Communication is key in remote work. It’s quite challenging because you don’t see your teammates. How can you know the emotion behind their words? What does their emojis mean?

If you want to be a successful remote worker, you need to learn how to communicate well. And learn how to use tools like:

  • Slack
  • Zoom
  • Skype
  • Google Drive
  • Trello

By mastering communications and work collaboration, you can be sure to give value to your clients while building your career in the process.

Getting-a-Remote-Job

Getting a Remote Job

With that, it’s time to get your remote job! There are many ways, like job boards, LinkedIn, etc. But if you want to have a partner who can give you the opportunity without the hassle of looking for your own clients, Remote Staff might be for you.

With over 10 years of experience, Remote Staff has helped numerous aspiring Filipino remote workers to get the dream job that they’ve always wanted. With government benefits, fair salary rates, and continuous work opportunities, you have peace of mind while enjoying the benefits of remote working.

Check out Remote Staff to apply.

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Miko Eclipse is a digital nomad writer who advocates that every Filipino can be a remote worker. Learn as he writes about productivity tips and relevant remote working skills for the modern remote worker today.

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