Huh, I think this way is a substantial improvement—if 80K had strong views about where their advice leads, far better to be honest about this and let people make informed decisions, than giving the mere appearance of openness
I think there’s a range of approaches one could take on career advice, ranging (for lack of better terms) from client-centered counseling to advocacy-focused recruiting. Once an advisor has decided where on the continuum they want to be, I think your view that it is “far better to be honest about this and let people make informed decisions” follows. But I think the decision about transparency only comes after the decision about how much to listen to the client-advisees vs. attempt to influence them has been made.
It is not inconsistent for an advisor to personally believe X but be open to a range of V . . . Z when conducting advising. For example, most types of therapists are supposed to be pretty non-directive; not allowing one’s views to shine too brightly to one’s therapy client is not a epistemic defect.
To be sure, 80K has never strongly been into a client-centered counseling model, nor should it have been. The end goal isn’t to benefit the client, and opera and many other things have never been on the table! But the recent announcement seems to be a move away from what physicians might analogize to a shared decisionmaking model toward a narrower focus on roles that are maximum impact in the organization’s best judgment. There are upsides and downsides of that shift.
Huh, I think this way is a substantial improvement—if 80K had strong views about where their advice leads, far better to be honest about this and let people make informed decisions, than giving the mere appearance of openness
I think there’s a range of approaches one could take on career advice, ranging (for lack of better terms) from client-centered counseling to advocacy-focused recruiting. Once an advisor has decided where on the continuum they want to be, I think your view that it is “far better to be honest about this and let people make informed decisions” follows. But I think the decision about transparency only comes after the decision about how much to listen to the client-advisees vs. attempt to influence them has been made.
It is not inconsistent for an advisor to personally believe X but be open to a range of V . . . Z when conducting advising. For example, most types of therapists are supposed to be pretty non-directive; not allowing one’s views to shine too brightly to one’s therapy client is not a epistemic defect.
To be sure, 80K has never strongly been into a client-centered counseling model, nor should it have been. The end goal isn’t to benefit the client, and opera and many other things have never been on the table! But the recent announcement seems to be a move away from what physicians might analogize to a shared decisionmaking model toward a narrower focus on roles that are maximum impact in the organization’s best judgment. There are upsides and downsides of that shift.