Stacey 🇺🇸

Human Resources & People Leadership

"There Was No Other Option But Remote For Me"

Stacy's Story

Stacy lives in Asheville, North Carolina, a mountain town without much of a local job market for the people-leader roles she was after. Moving was always technically an option. Remote wasn't.

She'd left her last full-time role six months earlier and had been applying on her own, inconsistently, with little to show for it. One application got rejected within three hours despite hitting all the right keywords, scanned and tossed before a person ever saw it. Reaching out to people directly isn't her natural instinct either, so she knew she needed some kind of community behind her to build the courage to do it anyway.

The Remote Job Academy gave her that. The course helped untangle what her search actually needed to look like, and the community meant she wasn't going through the rejections alone. Being active in that community paid off directly: a job fair connected her one-on-one with the company that hired her, giving her a recommendation before she'd even properly started competing for the role.

She made the connection with her new company on May 5th and started June 2nd, about three months after joining the Academy. Now she can stay in Asheville, close enough to see both her family and her partner's family without her job getting in the way.

For Stacy, the value went both directions. She got support when she needed it, and now has the chance to mentor others coming up behind her, passing along the same kind of help she received. As someone who works in HR, she still found perspectives she hadn't considered, just from being around people across different professions and career stages. The only cost, she said, was the price of joining. Everything else was pure gain.