I analysed 55k remote jobs, this is what I found

Hey,

I'm Sergio Pereira, and this is the Remote Work newsletter 👋

Last week, I wrote about the job market heating up, as thousands of tech companies are hiring again. 

I've also covered the launch of JobsCopilot's Auto Apply, which has crossed 400 customers, who have already "auto applied" to thousands of jobs.

Today I'm trying to reply to the main question I got after the last edition:

• It's great that companies are hiring. But how many of these are remote jobs I can apply from my country?

And "my country" means mostly outside the US, as most of people in low wage countries ambition finding a high paying US remote job.

Well, I did some digging into the data, and from the ~141k new jobs scraped, this is the breakdown:

I need to work harder to figure out the remote status and/or location of those "Uncategorized". But you get the gist:

• Half the jobs are indeed in the on-site.

• Hybrid jobs are a big chunk of the job market nowadays, with 22%.

• 6558 are fully remote without geographical constraints.

• But for all the remaining jobs, they are remote only within such constraints.

This is data collected from scraping ~400k career pages, for JobsCopilot.AI. For each job I have the remote status, the city, the country, and many more data points. 

Let's see the top 30 countries by number of remote jobs available (as in, if you live there as an applicant):

Unsurprisingly, the United States absolutely dominates. Those US-only remote jobs have a high statistic relevancy. There's another few countries that also have a noticeable number of  "Remote within country" jobs. But for the long tail, they have few jobs on top of the ~6500 fully remote jobs, which are available in any country.

Also worth saying that my DB is very biased towards tech companies and English written job descriptions. That's especially visible when I break down the jobs available in these 12 cities into remote or in-office:

If I were to live in New York, I'd have 19,872 remote jobs and 26537 on-site jobs available to me at this exact moment.

As I live in Lisbon, Portugal, I have 7,425 remote jobs and 438 on-site jobs available (of course this signals that I'm not scraping much Portuguese-centric jobs, thus missing most local market).

In any case, if you're looking for remote jobs, there are at least 6558 fully remote jobs available to you, regardless where you live.

Of course you can't manually find and apply to all these jobs, and that's why I created JobsCopilot.AI. It started as a fun personal project where I used AI to collect and analyse job market data. But it's now a fully fledged copilot, ready to finally fulfil the vision of "Getting job interviews booked, while you sleep".

All features are now fully available to everyone, you can simply access them at JobsCopilot.ai, select your plan and enjoy the product. There isn't any free trial, but I have a 7-day refund policy, just in case it disappoints you.

This is what you can expect inside the Premium plan of JobsCopilot:

1/ Your auto-application profile

Once you switch to the Premium plan, you'll be prompted to fill in a profile section with your replies to common demographic questions found in job application forms:

2/ Your auto-apply flow

Besides that initial setup, you'll now find this new button in the jobs card. Just click the "Auto Apply" button on the jobs that are relevant to you, and that will trigger the auto-apply backend flow (no application is sent before your final revision):

3/ Application form is fetched and pre-filled for you

All jobs you've ticked "Auto Apply" are moved to the "Jobs to Apply" tab. And for each of them our backend pulls the application form, and our AI generates replies to each of the form questions based on the job description and your profile. Within a couple minutes you can find the pre-filled job application form in each job card:

4/ One-click confirmation

For now, I'm requiring you to review and click this submit button for every job, as I want you to feel in control of your applications, and I want to capture feedback on quality of this flow. I might make it more automated upon some configs in the future.

Once you submit a job for Auto Apply, the copilot will submit your application in the following minutes/hours (depending on work load). You'll get these messages on your email on a frequent basis, like I'm receiving for the past couple weeks during testing:

I'm very happy for this launch. Developing JobsCopilot under such aggressive bandwidth constraints has been hard work, but I'm thankful for your feedback, and for all positive messages and engagement. You truly are an amazing bunch :)

If you have any issues or questions about JobsCopilot, just drop me a message on jobscopilot@sergiopereira.io, for faster response. I count on your feedback to make this product the best in the market and help us all find great jobs!

Thanks for reading this newsletter until the end. You can read all past editions here. Make sure to share it with your friends and colleagues so they can read it too. 

See you next Friday,

Sergio Pereira, 
Startup CTO & Remote Work Lover