My personal impression is that it’s a bit easier to find operations staff than before, but still difficult.
We wrote this update at the top of the original article:
Note: Though we edited this article lightly in 2020, it was written in 2018 and is now somewhat out of date.
Due to this post and other efforts, people in the effective altruist community have become more interested in working in operations, and it has also come to seem easier to fill these roles with people not already active in the community. As a result, several recent hiring rounds for these roles were successful, and there are now fewer open positions, and when positions open up they’ve become more competitive.
This means that the need for more people to pursue this path is somewhat less than when we wrote the post. However, many of the major points in this post still apply to some degree, there is still a need for more people working in operations management, and we expect this need to persist as the community grows. For these reasons, we still think this is a promising path to consider. We also think the information on how to enter operations roles and how to assess your fit for them will still be valuable to people pursuing this path.
My personal impression is that it’s a bit easier to find operations staff than before, but still difficult.
We wrote this update at the top of the original article: