GTA Online: Joining jobs GTA Online guide, tips

With your cell phone

Press the top arrow to enter the cell phone menu. Here you can choose from two options: Quick Job and Jobs List.

Joining jobs with your cell phone

Quick Job menu allows you to join the closest job in-progress. Clicking on Join Random will send you to one of three types of games which are about to start. You can also manually set the type of game you want to join. Depending on your feelings, you can choose between Join Race, Join Deathmatch, and Join Mission. Jobs List, on the other hand, contains invitations from other players as well as missions given by NPCs (e.g. Simeon or Lamar). This tab also holds invitations to jobs which are still active, that is those not yet taken by other players.

You can also join jobs through the game menu. Go to Game menu > Online > Jobs > Join Jobs. Here too you can choose to join a random job or a specific game type.

Another way to join missions is through the contact menu. You just need to call one of the mission givers - be it Lamar - to get to play a mission.

Joining the game via the map

Starting a job via the world map

Press START, to open the GTA Online world map. There are icons which stand for particular jobs. There are two ways to get there. You can either set GPS route and drive there, or use "quick travel" option. If you choose the first option, point a job icon with the cursor and press A (X360) or X (PS3) to set the route to a given location. Remember to exit a vehicle before entering the job circle - you have to be on foot to start it.

Using "quick travel" is much easier. You just point a job icon with the cursor and press X (X360), SQUARE (PS3). You will be asked if you really want to start the job. Accept this and it is all set.

However, when joining a job via the map, there is a high probability that no one is currently playing this. In that case, you become the host, i.e. you create the job.