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Hello, Nairalanders!

Nowadays, it's not uncommon to see Nigerians with digital skills sign up on freelance platforms where they meet foreign companies to work for one and earn in USD. These digital skills include writing, digital marketing, marketing, software development, website development, online consultancy, etc.

However, these freelance marketplaces are increasingly becoming saturated, making it extremely difficult to land freelance projects.

Some of us were fortunate to earn some good money when things were better and have tried to use the opportunity to switch to a full-time remote role but it has been extremely difficult.

Have you been fortunate enough to get a full-time remote role from Nigeria? If so, how did you do it? What tricks worked for you? Please share them with us.

I got mine through referals, cold dm's work though.

And this worked out too----> Let assume you a video editor and you focused on a certain niche, you narrow down to your target market, you know where they are, you could look through their video content to look for errors in 'em and correct it.

Once you are done with the correction, look for their(target client) email and send to them, although before putting up the video in the email, you would need to compliment them and below the complimentary words, you send the video.


If you are really good, if they like it, they might want to bring you in to work with them.


It does not only work for video editing gigs, it can work for all kinds of digital skills as well like digital marketing, Software development, cyber security and the likes.

Okay

Na Upwork o

It didn't eventually land before taking off again 😂😂😂

Nature129:
Hello, Nairalanders!

Nowadays, it's not uncommon to see Nigerians with digital skills sign up on freelance platforms where they meet foreign companies to work for one and earn in USD. These digital skills include writing, digital marketing, marketing, software development, website development, online consultancy, etc.

However, these freelance marketplaces are increasingly becoming saturated, making it extremely difficult to land freelance projects.

Some of us were fortunate to earn some good money when things were better and have tried to use the opportunity to switch to a full-time remote role but it has been extremely difficult.

Have you been fortunate enough to get a full-time remote role from Nigeria? If so, how did you do it? What tricks worked for you? Please share them with us.

There's no trick to it.

1. You have to be extremely good at what you do. Not just good by Nigerian standards but by global standards.

2. You have to be a good culture fit. Can you talk and easily blend in with people of other cultures?

The rest is basic.

Remote yab folks show up let others learn.

I just got a remote job, though it's a contract. The pay is not bad because it's even higher than salary in Nigeria. This because I will be paid in dollars. My friend in Nigeria gave me the information to apply for the job.

Which one be foreign job? Or you mean remote work?
My guy needs hand job

Meerahbel:
Here on nairaland

Same in 2020. I just stumbled on a thread at the right time. Wrote tests and scaled through. God came through for me through mankind last last.

;Dw

Na prayers ooo..

Psalm 23

Psalm 51

Psalm 91..

Prayer is the master key.

Na yahoo with juju win am.

Japa !!!

It was after Japa not before Japa to be specific 😎😎😎

So with the current Tinubu APC Shege Banza government ! Don't wait till you land a foreign job , before you Japa , just Japa and you go see job anyhow you wan do am 😅😜😜

Following with keen interest. About to stop 9-5

Ok

Via a neighbor, as a frontend developer..

Lol you can’t get info as vital as this from Nairaland with the crab mentality of the average Nigerian.

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Someone will hustle to get a remote job as a newbie, and MTN and epileptic power supply will now become the weapons fashioned against you.

Please, I'm a professional Virtual istrative Assistant and could really use some referrals.

Lol Nigerian doesn't like to share what the know that works for them
That was how I asked someone to help me Amazon job tho he demanded for money to teach me and help me apply since then na so so story

ChemicalReaction:
You'll hustle to get a remote job as a newbie, and MTN and epileptic power supply will now become the weapons fashioned against you.

Get solar na

I might be needing some remote workers based in Nigeria to do some work on my behalf...

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Meerahbel:
Get solar na

The comment made wasn't for me though. However, it's a common problem newbies in the remote space go through.

YorubaPrince:
I might be needing some remote workers based in Nigeria to do some work on my behalf...

Interested

Quote author=YorubaPrince post=131381669]I might be needing some remote workers based in Nigeria to do some work on my behalf... [/quote]
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