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After one year of applying for EA jobs: It is really, really hard to get hired by an EA organisation
EA applicant
3y
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My current impressions on career choice for longtermists
Holden Karnofsky
1y
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344
The Cost of Rejection
Daystar Eld
1y
48
327
Senior EA 'ops' roles: if you want to undo the bottleneck, hire differently
AnonymousThrowAway
5mo
32
309
My bargain with the EA machine
Eric Neyman
7mo
43
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Is effective altruism growing? An update on the stock of funding vs. people
Benjamin_Todd
1y
106
221
SHOW: A framework for shaping your talent for direct work
RyanCarey
3y
29
216
Snapshot of a career choice 10 years ago
Julia_Wise
1y
11
197
High absorbency career paths
Joey
8mo
8
196
Mid-career people: strongly consider switching to EA work
Ben Snodin
7mo
33
190
How to Get an EA-aligned Job: My Experience
SofiaBalderson
1y
12
177
Many Undergrads Should Take Light Courseloads
Mauricio
1y
29
161
Thoughts on doing good through non-standard EA career pathways
Buck
2y
12
158
Careers Questions Open Thread
Benjamin_Todd
2y
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321
What happens on the average day?
rosehadshar
4mo
28
301
My experience with imposter syndrome — and how to (partly) overcome it
Luisa_Rodriguez
8mo
21
233
Historical EA funding data
TylerMaule
4mo
47
202
A new Our World in Data article on longtermism
Max Roser
9mo
16
181
What we learned from a year incubating longtermist entrepreneurship
Rebecca Kagan
1y
27
139
Why and how to start a for-profit company serving emerging markets
Ben_Kuhn
3y
15
138
How can we make Our World in Data more useful to the EA community?
EdMathieu
1y
48
122
Shapley values: Better than counterfactuals
NunoSempere
3y
35
118
I’m Offering Free Coaching for Software Developers in the EA community
Yonatan Cale
1y
39
108
Want advice on management/organization-building?
Ben_Kuhn
1mo
4
106
Mastermind Groups: A new Peer Support Format to help EAs aim higher
Patrick Gruban
6mo
16
104
Zzapp Malaria: More effective than bed nets? (Wanted: CTO, COO & Funding)
Yonatan Cale
3mo
19
100
Ambitious Altruistic Software Engineering Efforts: Opportunities and Benefits
Ozzie Gooen
1y
31
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There are currently more than 100 open EA-aligned tech jobs
Sebastian Becker
7mo
20