Gayatri Vathsan had about 15 years of work experience in multiple MNCs, mostly as an instructional designer and a writer, when she took a career break in 2014 for personal reasons, leaving behind a pay package of 12-13 LPA. 

She planned to get back to work around 2015-2016, but couldn’t do that as she has a special needs’ child, and had only about 3-4 hrs per day of free time available for work. 

She could not find part-time remote work opportunities back then. 

It would take a few more years before remote work and international talent arbitrage became possible. 

In August 2023, she started pursuing a remote work course from Skill Arbitrage so that she could pursue remote work on a part-time basis. 

She took assistance from our team to build her Upwork profile, writing outreach messages to her clients, posting actively on LinkedIn and also started learning some skills around generative AI. 

In 1 month, she received an invite for a job on her Upwork profile from a Philippines-based AI company from Scale AI. 

The client offered her an initial trial project, which she performed successfully and then bagged an annual project of USD 10K!

Her role involves training an AI model that her client is developing for a Big Tech company. It does not require any technical knowledge of coding, science or mathematics. 

She has to work only for 2 hours per day and can take care of her family for the remaining time. 

Her confidence levels have shot up. 

She used to write earlier as a hobby, but did not publish her work. 

After joining our courses, she started publishing her content online, and this led to her securing several career opportunities. 

Gayathri has secured 4 full-time remote job offers through LinkedIn, all of which pay more than her last job! 

She had to decline them for now as she only has 3 hours per day to work.  

Gayathri is also writing her novel, and she also obtained an offer from a mainstream book publisher on LinkedIn!

This is what happens when you build skills and a demonstrable track record. 

Like Gayathri, it is possible for any woman who had to give up her career to prioritise family needs/personal obligations to get back into the workforce through international remote work, even if you just have 2-4 hours per day of free time available.  

Would you like to find out how you can jump on the international remote work bandwagon too?

Would you like to know more about the roles that are most in-demand?   

It does not matter if you do not have a lot of prior expertise in those areas – with the help of AI you can secure opportunities in about 3-6 months of training.