Remote Working

Welcome to Grow Remote Ballinasloe!

We are the local chapter of Grow Remote at www.growremote.ie playing our part in building a national movement to connect remote workers in Ireland.

We’re a not for profit on a mission to enable us to work, live and participate locally. We do this by making remote work (via employment) both visible and accessible. 

We believe we’re in the middle of a seismic change in ways of working that opens up a whole new opportunity for a better quality of life, for remote workers and for rural Ireland.
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Tracy Keogh, co-founded Grow Remote in 2018 and joined us to kick-off the first Ballinasloe Chapter live meeting in May 2019. The team had been running some virtual meetings earlier.

To join the chapter log onto ChangeX and join other remote workers in the East Galway Ballinasloe region or find us on Facebook 

Grow Remote supports remote workers and employers building a community where sustainable jobs and careers working from home or co-working hubs are created and carried out in our rural towns and villages through - local chapters, jobs board, training, meet ups for information exchange.
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Many people are now working from home for the first time due to the challenging times we are in brought about by COVID19.
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Some have moved home from Dublin, Galway, London and others are no longer commuting to Athlone, Loughrea, Galway etc. and would like to continue to work locally at least part of the week.

These trends will continue and we are looking for all interested in growing remote working in Ballinasloe to support and come on board.
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Please watch for updates here.

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Upcoming Events at Grow Remote

To join in the remote working conversation, please register at the link below for Summer Sessions Meet up 3 of 3, last meet up before September of the Ballinasloe Grow Remote Group !

Register Here for Tuesday 13th July, 12pm to 1pm

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Past Events at Grow Remote

Our monthly jobs club on April 8th: Click Here 

Meet the team opening 200 remote jobs at Flipdish on Friday April 16th: Click Here

How relocation campaigns work (a series) starting May 3rd: Click Here

Cyber security in remote teams on April 14th: Click Here

Some tips for getting the most from the remote jobs board

• Note – All of these jobs are curated to be suitable for candidates based in Ireland
• Do your research on the companies you are applying to, they love to see specific knowledge of what they do in applications
• Re: above, follow them on social media – Twitter is particularly good for connecting with many remote employers
• Look them up on Glassdoor and LinkedIn
• Look up other job descriptions for the roles you are applying for, look for similarities or differences, this can help you to figure out the focus in that particular company
• Apply for the job even if you don’t tick all the boxes! Too many companies tell us that candidates are self-filtering because they don’t tick all the boxes, go for the role, see what happens!
• Ask the Grow Remote community for advice, hop into the Slack workspace and post your query – http://bit.ly/growremoteslack

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Ballinasloe Area Remote Working Survey

In 2020, after Covid forced so many people to work from home, we ran the first survey about remote work in Ballinasloe. A year later a revised survey has been launched.

​We are interested to receive your feedback and would kindly ask as many people as possible to complete the short 3 minute survey. We will post the results in future Facebook updates and in Ballinasloe Life Magazine.

To complete the survey simply scan the QR code or follow the link. Please share ! 

Thank you ! 
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2HFK8TV...