@Zachary Robinson🔸 Wouldn’t it make sense for CEA to quickly establish a more cause-neutral job board, career advisory articles, and career advisory services? Maybe 80,000 Hours will be even happy to share code/content, to make it easier for the EA community to transition. Given that the whole community is on the EA Forum, it would be great to link to those products directly from here. It’s a shame, though, because 80K has enormous reach and marketing successes, and building this from scratch will take a lot of time and money.
I want the cause-neutral resources you mention to exist. I also worry that CEA isn’t the right place to host them for now, both because we unfortunately have to make difficult tradeoffs on our focuses right now (we have some public comms related to our own strategic updates that we’ll hopefully be sharing in the not too distant future), and because it would be a major lift for us to create some of these resources given we don’t have significant staff or other infrastructure for career advisory articles and services.
This is something I’d ideally like to see other organizations in the ecosystem contribute to. I’m hoping we’ll hear more from @Probably Good, who seems like a natural home for many of these activities (they did just announce they’re restarting advising). It’s possible that the EA Opportunity Board (which CEA recently started running) could also serve to capture more cause-neutral job opportunities.
Regardless of whether or not anyone agrees with 80Ks strategic pivot, one thing I’m grateful for is their transparency. It makes it easier for others in the community to know what balls people are and aren’t holding and to coordinate around gaps.
FYI I asked a similar question and here an 80k staff replied in more detail. I also think it might be worth it if any other org (Probably Good maybe?) finds it worth their time.
@Zachary Robinson🔸 Wouldn’t it make sense for CEA to quickly establish a more cause-neutral job board, career advisory articles, and career advisory services? Maybe 80,000 Hours will be even happy to share code/content, to make it easier for the EA community to transition.
Given that the whole community is on the EA Forum, it would be great to link to those products directly from here.
It’s a shame, though, because 80K has enormous reach and marketing successes, and building this from scratch will take a lot of time and money.
I want the cause-neutral resources you mention to exist. I also worry that CEA isn’t the right place to host them for now, both because we unfortunately have to make difficult tradeoffs on our focuses right now (we have some public comms related to our own strategic updates that we’ll hopefully be sharing in the not too distant future), and because it would be a major lift for us to create some of these resources given we don’t have significant staff or other infrastructure for career advisory articles and services.
This is something I’d ideally like to see other organizations in the ecosystem contribute to. I’m hoping we’ll hear more from @Probably Good, who seems like a natural home for many of these activities (they did just announce they’re restarting advising). It’s possible that the EA Opportunity Board (which CEA recently started running) could also serve to capture more cause-neutral job opportunities.
Regardless of whether or not anyone agrees with 80Ks strategic pivot, one thing I’m grateful for is their transparency. It makes it easier for others in the community to know what balls people are and aren’t holding and to coordinate around gaps.
FYI I asked a similar question and here an 80k staff replied in more detail. I also think it might be worth it if any other org (Probably Good maybe?) finds it worth their time.