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Landing your first online job: a step-by-step guide
No foreign clients yet? Here is how to set up your profile and write applications that get answered.
By The PH Online Jobs Team
Everyone has a first remote job, and before that, no remote experience at all. What you need is a clear profile and applications that show you read the post.
1. Build a profile employers can trust
- Use a clear, friendly photo of your face
- Write a headline that says what you do, like "Bookkeeper for small businesses (Xero)"
- Rate your skills honestly; employers can tell
- Verify your National ID in your dashboard to get the Verified Filipino badge
2. Send fewer applications, and make them better
Ten careful applications work better than a hundred copied ones. Read the post, follow its instructions, and say one specific thing you can do for that business in your first two sentences.
3. Show your work
A short portfolio, a sample spreadsheet, a screen recording of you doing a task. Anything an employer can open in a minute helps you stand out.
Your Applications page shows when an employer first saw your application and how many times they opened it. If nobody has replied after a week, a short, polite follow-up is fine. After 30 days with no action from the employer, the application is marked Inactive, so you know when to move on.
4. Protect yourself
A real employer never asks you to pay to apply, to buy equipment from them, or to move to Telegram or WhatsApp before you are hired. If a post feels wrong, use Report on the job post (you need to be signed in), or write to us from the contact page.
