Job Sites for Finding Telecommute, Traditional and Non-Profit Jobs

Last update: 1/6/22

It's not the largest job market, in terms of careers and availability, but there are opportunities. Here are some websites that I know about, and I've listed a few articles after that. Please note that "remote" doesn't always mean telecommute/at-home. Many of these sites also offer free information on job searching, interviewing and more. Please note that curated sites (marked with * for free and $* for paid) are liable to give you better quality results because they screen out scams and bad companies. Following are lists of remote-specific, generalist and non-profit sites, along with a few articles to give you some more choices and info.

Remote-Specific Sites

Escape the City has recently updated their website
Distant Job helps IT experts in low-paying countries get remote jobs in North America. It looks like the majority of jobs are for programmers.
Dynamite Jobs
Europe Remotely* has remote jobs only for people in Europe.
FlexJobs$* has remote & flexible jobs, and over 40,000 organizational info listings.
HEA Employment has no sort features and you must sign up to apply for jobs you're interested in. I have a bit of concern about their legitimacy because they have a testimonial on their about page with an image, implying that is "Stacy H.", but the image is a stock image used for marketing.
Jobspresso
Just Remote (tech, management) offers design, developer, marketing and management/c-suite jobs.
Landing.Jobs (IT) has programming jobs in European companies.
Let's Work Remotely
MotherWorks seems to cater specifically to helping moms find remote work.
NoDesk also offers lists of remote companies and remote job boards.
Outsourcely - worldwide
Pangian offers remote jobs and a remote job academy, as well as a chat area, although most jobs are not accessible if you don't pay.
The Penny Hoarder Work-From-Home Job* uses article titles that sometimes include the job title and is for US jobs only. Icons show location , whether there are benefits, a flexible schedule and if phone work is required. Unfortunately, the summary list doesn't show when it was posted, and the job articles don't necessarily give much info or have a posting date. They state that they "vet" (curate) jobs they post about. You can search by keyword and location.
Power to Fly is for women, trans, gender non-conforming and non-binary people. They have an application & screening process that may take 2-4 weeks.
Rat Race Rebellion has a completely different and, for me, inconvenient way of sharing job openings.
Remote.co
Remote.com occasionally sends you invitations to apply for specific jobs, although I don't know who sends the invitations, shows companies you're interested in and which are interested in you, has an internal message system and connection network, and you can create a profile.
Remote OK has a list of top companies and remote work statistics. I couldn't find any other info about them, not even an about/contact page. The guy who made it is Peter Levels.
Remote Work Hub*
Remotees (IT) is an aggregator that saves you some time because it lists certain remote jobs from other sites, including We Work Remotely, Stack Overflow, Jobspresso, Remote OK, GitHub, Dribbble, Remotive, Working Nomads, and Authentic Jobs. They do not put a date on the jobs, and the links take you to the originating sites.
Remotive
Simply Hired
Skip the Drive has a company list, aggregates using Jobs2Careers, no dates (but you can sort by date), and links to sites like Career Builder, Career Arc, Monster, Zip Recruiter, Experteer, Every Job for Me, Job Case, Velvet Jobs, Virtual Vocations and Geebo.
TranslatorsCafé.com has linguistics jobs (interpreting, translating, copywriting, editing, captions/subtitles, etc.).
Virtual Vocations$* has 15,288 researched, telecommute-friendly company profiles. They have a limited number of free jobs listed, too.
We Work Meteor (Meteor) is niche-specific: remote jobs for the app Meteor. No about/contact/FAQ page.
We Work Remotely has contract jobs, too, and offers a list of remote companies, including their top 100.
Wemote offers a place to put your anonymous profile and they work to help you make connections and curate jobs for you. Instead of your photo and name, you choose an iconized animal to represent you (choose wisely so that it matches the work you seek!). I have yet to see a job opening there or be matched to a job, although I can ask to be connected to several companies daily.
Workaline
The Work at Home Woman* is for women only, and is updated each Monday.

Virtual Vocations has produced a list of 50 telecommute job sites, not all of which are on this list.

Non-Telecommute-Specific Sites

You can search on tradition job sites for "telecommute", "remote", "fully distributed", "home" and similar. Who knows what you'll find - if they're famous sites, it's pretty much a sure bet you'll find lots. For the websites below, I've used a modified link to bring up remote jobs, where possible. You'll need to change the location on some sites. If you have a problem with a link, it's probably because I incorrectly erased the location and affiliate info from it (send me a comment so I can fix it, please), so just go to their website and type in the keywords above. If that doesn't bring up anything, try each word separately to bring up jobs - some websites use all, but some don't.

AngelList (startups, tech): offers full-time, part-time, internships from all over the world, with 30+ job positions in tech and running a startup (including C-Suite positions). No info on when a job was posted.
Authentic Jobs (IT, creative): "home" and "remote" has Full-time, Contract, Part-time, Freelance, Moonlighting, and Internships.
Behance (IT, creative)"remote" and "home"
CareerBuilder has jobs and resume storage. The quality of jobs is often not that good, I have had problems over the past year with it sending me jobs for the state I left over 1 year ago, even after adjusting my profile 3 times, and - most recently - when I reported two possible scams to them they agent's who got them did nothing instead of investigating them. The fact is that most scammers who've told me where they found me have said CB, so I cannot recommend this website.
CareerHooks
Collabera - Please contact Tejas Shah ([email protected]) and note my name (Glenn McGrew).
Cryptocurrency Jobs serves blockchain and cryptocurrency companies only (type in "remote" for the location), no about/FAQ page.
CryptoTask - freelance and regular jobs in a variety of fields
Direct Employers DE Jobs - lists millions of jobs worldwide
Dice (IT)
#epicjobs
Dribbble (IT, creative) has a designer's network.
ESL Employment claims to specialize in ESL/EFL (teaching English) jobs, but it actually has many other types of jobs listed.
Expert Job Match requires that you type in your location, so enter "remote telecommute" in the job description field. No ability to sort results. Probably uses an aggregation service or maybe scrapes from other job sites.
Every Job for Me requires that you type in your location, so enter "remote telecommute" in the job description field. Click "skip" in top-right corner to bypass signing up after searching. Some sorting functions available. Probably uses an aggregation service or maybe scrapes from other job sites.
F6S No dates on preview list - only job listings. They also help startups. Connect with Accelerators, Funds & Investors, also get connected with startups looking for your skills. They also offfer some free services for tech startups.
Find Dream Jobs requires that you type in your location, so enter "remote telecommute" in the job description field. No ability to sort results. Probably uses an aggregation service or maybe scrapes from other job sites.
Geebo offers jobs by location (city, state/province: certain parts of US only) as well as classified ads, scams and shams, adwatch (it watches for ads with the keywords you select and emails you). Select your location first. I guess it's like Craig's List. Registration required to apply.
GitHub (IT) is not a job board, but they list IT jobs.
Glassdoor not only offers jobs, interview & salary info, and resume storage, they also provide reviews of companies - possibly the most complete, although TrustPilot only does reviews, and Working Mother offers a list of best companies to work for, along with a lot of resources.
Government Jobs lists jobs with city and state governments in the US
Hacker News/Ycombinator isn't a job site, and it seems they use an aggregator to make an article with jobs listed, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to search to find remote jobs. You can use kristopolous' console script to search the thread.
-Higher Hire
Hired (IT, management) has Software Engineering, Engineering Management, Design, Data Analytics, Developer Operations, Quality Assurance, Information Technology, Project & Product Management; make a profile first. They seem to offer primarily tech and management jobs.
I Hire Environmental offers only jobs related to the environment.
Indeed has jobs, resume storage and company reviews.
IT Jobs List doesn't only specialize in IT jobs.
It's My Career requires that you register in order to browse jobs. They claim to be affiliated with several companies, including Indeed, but I was unable to verify any of them. Proceed with caution.
Job Center of Wisconsin is often recommended by experts in WI, but is a bit difficult to navigate. Used by the US Dept. of Workforce Development and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation & its partners to place clients.
Job Countries offers other countries at the bottom.
JobCase aggregates from your choice of sites: CareerBuilder, Glassdoor, Indeed, LinkedIn, JobInsider & JobCase itself. It requires a location but sometimes doesn't turn up anything remote when I search "USA" with all sites selected.
JobInsider no search options other than by keywords and job titles list.
JobsEye
Jobs Galore
Jooble searches for jobs all over the Internet and the links take you to the job postings.
Landing.Jobs (IT) has only got European jobs.
Lara Jobs (IT) focuses on Laravel and PHP, as well as other tech jobs.
LinkedIn is probably the largest business networking website. They have a resume builder if you pay for premium membership, but it's only as good as what you put in your profile and how well you can edit it. Free users have the ability to make a profile (basically, their resume), participate in their forums, write posts and articles, network with other people in their circles, connect with some people, and have a limited ability to do other things.
Milwaukee Jobs
Monster
Move Me On* has curated jobs in Strategy, Operations, General Management, Project Management, PE & VC Professionals, Transformation & Change, Insight & Analytics & more. Both employment and freelancing. You are confidentially listed except for when you apply for a job. It appears that you have to have consulting experience at a firm as it requires that you enter the name of the firm you consulted for. It also offers something for freelancing.
My Job Helper
National Express LLC has jobs specific to transportation (driver, maintenance, operations, corporate & management).
Nerdy Hire is scraping data from other sites or using an aggregation service.
Neuvoo offers a USA tax (federal, state, SSI) calculator, scrapes data from other sites or uses aggregator.
O*NET Online is considered one of the best places to look for jobs by some experts, but it's confusing.
Otta has curated jobs. It seems focused on Administration, Accounting, IT Support, Customer Support, Data, Design, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Marketing, Operations, Sales, People/HR, and Product, with subsets in these categories.
Paycom Online - recruiter
Reddit Hiring is a Reddit thread that lists a wide variety of temp/perm/freelance job openings
Reddit Internships for free and paid internship opportunities
Stack Overflow (IT) has a major forum for tech conversations, so it makes sense that they advertise IT jobs.
StartUs is startup-specific in Europe.
Stella supposedly offers jobs not found elsewhere. You'll need to type in "remote telecommute" and delete the location info.
Tech Careers has more than just techjobs.
The Dots includes a networking feature.
The Muse
Upward.net requires that you type in your location, so enter "remote telecommute" in the job description field. No ability to sort results. Probably uses an aggregation service or maybe scrapes from other job sites.
USAJobs.gov has only government jobs.
Workday Jobs
Work In Startups (startups, tech) has full-time, part-time, freelance and internships, European-based, job posting and expiration dates shown. Jobs for marketers, testers, designers, managers, consultants, programmers, sales and co-founders.
Yochana - recruiter
Zip Recruiter

Non-Profit Job Sites

You can find both non-profit and volunteer work on these two sites, as well as on many university and college job boards/sites.

A Note about Job Sites

Aside from fraudulent job sites, some job sites do nothing more than recycle other sites's jobs, either by using an aggregation service which either shares job openings to multiple sites through a network (like Nexxt Network, formerly Beyond.com, which includes Monster, TechCareers, RetailGigs and 50+ other job sites), or by mining the data (scraping) from other websites without permission. Employers tend not to like websites that scrape their job openings.

Further Resources

Free Getting Started With Telecommuting Course - Virtual Vocations
JobKit* provides a subject-oriented list of job boards.
Free Code Camp offers free web development and design courses, including certifications. They have chat, forums, videos and more, are a 501(c)(3) charity and the best part of all is that if you already have the skills to complete one of the projects (milestones), you don't have to complete the exercises before it - they're testing your skills, not forcing you to study what you already know. Want more? If you get all 6 certificates, you'll get a full-stack certificate, and they are recognized by many companies and schools. Did I mention it's free?
Skillcrush teaches the tech skills you need to build a flexible and fulfilling career. You'll get certifications and, unlike some other sites, once you've paid you have access for life.
WorkinTech.io* (IT, creative) has job boards.
Here is a list of Hubstaff's 25+ Resources That Will Help You Land Your Dream Remote Job. It's a good resource and includes a list of remote companies and a couple other resources, but it's 3 years old, so some of the info is not entirely correct {I can tell you right now that BitWage, 6. Arctic Startup, 15. Workatho.me, 22. Inbound.org (aka GrowthHub) and 23. Growth Hackers (the job list) are all dead}.
Zapier's 25+ Fully Remote Companies That Let You Work From Anywhere is another old article, but it does list several remote companies that you can hit up for a job.
Rodolphe, founder of Remotive.io, has a list of 900+ Startups hiring Remotely in 2019 that you can try, too.
This is a much shorter article from Pete of Skip the Drive for choice remote companies, with a brief description and rating of each.

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