🌏 Why you're not getting remote job offers (it's not skills)

Plus: Spotlight on a platform helping companies reduce carbon emissions

Author

Chris Ming
November 18, 2025

Hello there 😎 

A client reached out last week with a frustrating pattern.

She had:

  • 15 years of CS/CX experience

  • Strong interview performance

  • 30%+ conversion rate from application to next stage

But no offers.

Or only offers requiring relocation when the job was posted as "remote."

Sound familiar?

If this is you: this isn't a skills problem.

You're clearing that bar.

📍 What's Really Happening

Companies advertise remote/hybrid, then quietly shift to "we prefer local" during final rounds. They're hedging their bets, keeping options open until decision time.

Remote candidates feel riskier to hiring managers, especially if they feel all candidates are equal otherwise.

⚡ Four Ways to Counter the "Remote Risk"

1/ Build relationships with industry leaders who can refer you in. Referrals are better at bypassing the location bias entirely.

2/ During final rounds, address the remote concern before they bring it up. Show you've thought through onboarding, travel cadence, team building.

3/ Target fully remote-first companies, not just remote-friendly ones. They won't have the same bias.

4/ Solve for it at the start of the process, not the end:

✍️ Try this in your initial outreach:

"I'm [location]-based and open to quarterly travel, but relocation isn't feasible in the next 6 months. If that's a dealbreaker, let's surface it now so we don't waste anyone's time."

Copy that into ChatGPT (try GPT-5.1) with your specific situation and ask it to rewrite in your tone and style.

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🤔 Are you getting interviews but not offers…?

…despite 15 years of experience and a strong 30%+ conversion rate?

The problem isn't your skills; it's often late-stage location bias or targeting misalignment.

Three steps to solve this:

  1. First, improve your targeting (see notes above)

  2. Rebuild your marketing materials to fit this target

  3. Add more volume 💪

That's exactly why I created Land The Interview. We rebuild your resume to surface your value in under 6 seconds, restructure your LinkedIn profile so recruiters reach out to you, and align your narrative around the role you actually want.

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"My hit rate jumped from 0% to 14% (application-to-interview). For every 7 jobs I applied to, 1 became an interview!"

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Clients who do the work get 1-2 recruiter messages per week and 2x more interviews per 15 apps.

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 🌏 Spotlight: Watershed

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🏢 What they do:

Enterprise platform helping companies reduce emissions and modernize sustainability programs

📍 Headquarters:

San Francisco, CA

👤 Employee count:

535

📈 Employee growth:

5% YoY growth (512 → 535 employees)

🗒️ Company reviews:

3.9/5 ⭐ rating (71 reviews)

💸 Funding stage:

Series C

⚔️ Competitors:

Persefoni, Emitwise, IBM (Envizi / Environmental Intelligence Suite), Microsoft Sustainability Manager, Salesforce Net Zero Cloud

📓 Three key initiatives:

  • Product Footprints / Sustainability AI: An AI-driven product that decomposes purchased goods into constituent materials and processes to produce faster, more precise product-level scope 3 footprints and enable procurement and supplier action. Source: GlobeNewswire press release (2025-09-23) and watershed.com/product

  • Open CEDA / CEDA (Comprehensive Environmental Data Archive): Open CEDA is a free version of Watershed's Comprehensive Environmental Data Archive used to support emissions accounting and scope 3 measurement across industries. Source: GlobeNewswire press release (2025-05-22) and watershed.com/product

  • Cornerstone initiative: A research and stewardship initiative (with Stanford Sustainable Solutions Lab) to merge USEEIO and CEDA into a single open multi-regional input-output model to improve the foundations of scope 3 measurement. Source: GlobeNewswire press release (2025-08-08)

✈️ Remote work stance: Watershed operates a hybrid work model with specific remote options.

🏡 Employees at hub offices (San Francisco, New York, London, Mexico City) are expected to work in-office four days per week, while satellite offices include Sydney, Paris, and Berlin.

Certain positions are explicitly designated as remote-eligible (primarily in the US and Europe) and these roles are clearly marked on job postings with any geographic restrictions.

The strategic upgrade your remote job search needs has arrived.

OpenAI's surprise release of GPT-5.1 delivers improvements on job hunting effectiveness. It’s enhanced reasoning can better:

  • Analyze job descriptions

  • Match the exact tone you want to take

  • Provide better feedback in interview prep

If you haven’t yet, I strongly recommend you start playing around with the new model today.

🤝 When you’re ready, here are 2 ways I can help you land your next job:

1/ Land The Interview Resume Service - I fix your resume, LinkedIn, and cover letter so you stop getting ghosted and start getting responses. No more wondering why your applications disappear into black holes. Just marketing materials that work.

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