One of the most common questions we have in our Remote Work Malaysia Facebook Group is where to find remote work. We’ve compiled some of the information from our group and around the Internet, and will do our best to continually update this list. Feel free to subscribe and stay updated.
Most of the sites here came from Aster in the group, which I think is really helpful.
Important disclaimer: We curate and explore these links as best we can, but we’re not vetting them all, so give it a go at your own risk.
Table of Contents
- Remote Job Boards
- Companies that support remote work.
- Freelance sites
- Upskill
- Discussions on where to find remote work
- Conclusion
Remote Job Boards
- We Work Remotely
- Dynamite Jobs
- Flex Jobs (requires subscription but screened and exclusive job openings)
- Truly Remote
- Remote
- NoDesk
- Working Nomads
- Zip Recruiter (Filter options to include Remote keyword)
- Daily Remote
- Just Remote
- Skip the Drive
- Remote OK
- Jobspresso
- Career Vault (select the option to hide US-only jobs)
- LinkedIn (Search remote and filter location to your location)
- Indeed (Filter remote jobs only and to specific location)
- Himalayas.app
- Remotive
- JobBoardSearch
- Flexa
- 80,000 Hours (Filter the country/region by Remote, Global)
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Companies that support remote work.
Some of these companies might not be hiring Malaysians at the time of writing, but things change all the time, so it’s worth checking out.
- 37Signals
- Automattic
- Superside
- Deel
- Adaptavist
- Coalition Technologies
- Storyblok
- Atlassian
- PowerToFly
- Protocol Labs
- Plex
- Remote
- Spotify
- Shopify
- Test Gorilla
- Toggl
- Toptal
- Taskade
- Travis Travis
- Twilio
- Zapier
- GitLab
- GitHub
- YouNeedABudget
- Wikimedia Foundation
- MailerLite
- Vercel
- Quora
Freelance sites
Alternatively, if you’re looking to go the freelance route, here is a list of the more popular freelancing sites where you can search for freelance jobs or conversely hire freelancers.
If you need help getting started, I see Kenny has written a useful article on how to make money on Upwork and also how much you can make on Upwork.
Upskill
If you’re looking to upskill to increase your chances of landing a remote job, there is a short introduction in the group about MDEC’s Glow Malaysia program. To Malaysian government also operates the National Training Week website where you can receive various types of training for free. I’ll add other links to sites where you can upskill (paid and/or free) here as well.
Discussions on where to find remote work
- Some companies offering hybrid work – shared by Zabliza Zakaria
- Some remote job posts available on Indeed (at time of writing)
- Large list of companies that do remote work – shared by Hanim Jamel
Conclusion
Hopefully this post will help answer the question of where to find remote work. We hope you find the job and career advancement that you’re seeking.
If you do find any remote positions or good companies that are offering remote work opportunities, feel free to contact us, and we’d be happy to check it out and add it to the list above.