For candidates
What we promise the people we place
Offshore recruiting has a well-documented problem with fee-charging, unpaid 'test projects' and silence. These are the commitments we make against that — written down, in public, so you can hold us to them.
The five commitments
1. You are never charged anything, for any reason
No placement fee. No training course. No deposit, processing fee, equipment payment, or "priority review" upgrade. There is no version of working with us that involves money moving from you to us. Our fee is paid by the employer, once, at the end — the whole model is on the deal page if you want to check that the incentives line up.
2. Work samples are real, scoped, and paid
Finalists produce a genuine piece of work — the thing the job actually involves, not a puzzle — and are paid for it. It is scoped to be completable in a sitting, not a weekend. We do this because an unpaid multi-hour assignment filters for who can afford to work for free, which is the opposite of what an employer is trying to find out.
3. You get an answer, and you can check it yourself
Every application is scored and every applicant is emailed the outcome, including a rejection. You also get a permanent status link showing exactly where you are in the process, so you are never left refreshing an inbox. Lost the link? Enter your email on the talent page and it comes back.
4. Your contact details stay yours until an employer commits
Employers see your work, your answers, your score and your first name — and nothing that lets them reach you — until they pay to meet you. That is usually described as protecting our fee. It also protects you: nobody gets to collect a pool of overseas candidates' contact details for free, and nobody can pressure you outside a process that has a record.
5. The scoring is published before you apply
The rubric that grades your application is on this site in full — the five dimensions and their exact weights, with worked examples of a strong and a weak answer. You can run it on an answer of your own first. An AI does the first pass; a human reviews every candidate before anything reaches an employer, and only a human advances or rejects you.
How to spot the operators we are not
This is worth knowing regardless of whether you ever apply here. Across overseas remote hiring, the same handful of signals separate a real employer from a scheme:
They ask you for money. Any fee, at any stage, under any name. Legitimate recruiters are paid by employers. This one signal catches most of it.
The offer arrives before the assessment. Real hiring gets slower before it gets faster — an instant "you're hired" from someone who has not seen you work is selling something else.
They will not say who the employer is, ever. Withholding a client name early is normal. Refusing to name them at the point you are asked to sign or start is not.
Pay is described as a percentage or "package" rather than a number. You should know your monthly rate, in your own currency terms, before you commit a single unpaid hour.
Everything happens on a chat app and nothing is written down. No contract, no scope, no named entity — nothing to point at later.
What we ask of you in return
Two things, and they are the same two we would ask of anyone. Do your own work — the screening compares your answers against your own follow-up responses, so answers produced by a chatbot tend to fall apart at the second question and score badly. And tell us your real salary expectation. The band is not a trap: an honest number in the wrong band costs you one role, while a number you cannot live on costs you the job three months in.
Common questions
Does Rolemote ever charge candidates money?
No — not a placement fee, not a training course, not a deposit, not a 'processing' or 'visa' charge, not a paid assessment, not equipment money. There is no circumstance in which we ask an applicant for payment. If anyone contacts you claiming to be from Rolemote and asks for money, it is not us: forward it to hello@rolemote.com and we will confirm and warn others.
Do I get paid for the work sample?
Yes, if you reach the finalist stage. The work sample is real, scoped work and finalists are paid for it. Unpaid multi-hour 'test projects' are common in this market and we think they are a way of getting free labour from people who cannot afford to refuse, so we do not run them.
Will I actually hear back?
Yes, either way, every time. Every application is scored and every applicant is emailed the outcome — including the ones we pass on. You also get a permanent status link so you can check where you stand without waiting on us, and you can recover that link with your email if you lose it.
Who sees my application?
Your written answers, work sample, score and screening notes go to the specific employer whose search you applied to, and to the people who operate Rolemote. Nothing is sold, listed in a public directory, or shared with other employers without your application to that role. Your contact details stay hidden from the employer until they pay to meet you — which means nobody can take your details and go around us, or around you.
Am I employed by Rolemote?
No. You are hired directly by the company, at the salary you agreed with them. We are not an employer of record and we take no percentage of your pay — not at the start, not ever. That is deliberate: an arrangement where the middleman keeps skimming is one where your raise is somebody else's cost.
An AI scores my application. Is that the whole decision?
No. The score is a first pass and it is never the last word — a human reviews every candidate before anything is sent to an employer, and only a human can advance or reject you. The exact rubric is published, so you can read what is being measured and how it is weighted before you apply, which is more than most employers will tell you.
Join the roster
Apply once, free, and be considered for every role we are hired to fill. Scored in minutes, an answer either way, and finalists are paid for their work sample.
Before you negotiate anything, see what US companies actually pay for remote work from the Philippines, Colombia, Mexico, South Africa or Argentina — the same numbers we publish to employers.
Sources
- OnlineJobs.ph — jobseeker guidance — the largest Philippine remote-work board's own anti-scam guidance for jobseekers
- Philippine Department of Labor and Employment — the government channel for reporting illegal recruitment and fee-charging