Employers are pushing back about remote work. These leaders beat the odds, ditched the commute, and achieved promotion as remote natives. Professionals are leaving toxic in-person work and 10 hours of extra commute time per week. But employers have pushed back by forcing highly productive remote teams back into the office. The stories you will hear on this podcast are professionals that are achieving more income, higher titles, and career advancement by becoming remote native. This podcast is hosted by Dr. Karen Gurney, the Principal of Hire a Headhunter, a reverse recruitment industry leader that solves for what the professional wants, not the corporation. Remote work has blown the doors off what is possible for clients by opening the entire country. This allows people who live in tiny markets to progress in their career. The challenge in achieving remote work, getting more pay, and growing a remote career is that it virtually always requires a career change in industry, profession, or both into remote native roles. Have you had these thoughts? My network is no longer delivering the roles or results I need. I get calls but they are not a match to what I want. Just the thought of doing a job search depresses me. What happened to all of the recruiter calls? I do not even have time to look for a job. I wonder if there is a new cutting-edge way to search. I wonder if I could earn more? Is there more meaningful work for my background? Bottom Line: Are you getting the calls for the jobs you want? The reason you are not achieving your remote career goals is because remote work is not recruited for in the same way as traditional in-person roles. And your network, that may have been effective in the past, is not sitting on a pool of remote jobs that they can help you get. Becoming remote native requires a strategic repositioning based on skills that transfer to jobs and industries that have been built to be telecommute and by companies and bosses who have also ditched their commute and seen the productivity value of working from home. The job search and growth solutions that have worked for traditional careers do not function the same way as growing a remote career for more income, prestige, and advancement. This podcast will introduce you to professionals that leverage their Hire-a-Headhunter investment to become remote natives and are growing a resilient long-term career working from home or anywhere in the world. To win the game of remote work you need to know the rules. The solution to the mystery as to why it is hard to find quality remote work is here. 1. To get a remote job and advance in your career are both career changes that pivot you into the hottest roles and industries that are “remote-native.” 2. Remote native professions and industries remain remote from individual-contributor through leadership and are therefore resilient. 3. Even though a wide range of positions went remote during the pandemic, many of them were never intended, nor designed, to remain as telecommute which is destabilizing careers. 4. In person work and remote work are not considered equivalents by employers requiring a pivot on your skills into remote native professions. 5. An additional challenge is that employers do not passively recruit for remote roles. 6. Getting remote work is an active, not passive, campaign. This will not just fall into your lap.