I know someone who might be working on a “common application” (but they might not be).
In my understanding, the role of this “common application” is distinct and deeper than a job board.
A job board is like an airtable for jobs (this is a lot of work and harder than it sounds). On the other hand, a common application works together with different EA orgs and involves applicants throughout the job process.
I know someone who might be working on a “common application” (but they might not be).
In my understanding, the role of this “common application” is distinct and deeper than a job board.
A job board is like an airtable for jobs (this is a lot of work and harder than it sounds). On the other hand, a common application works together with different EA orgs and involves applicants throughout the job process.
Some points:
A common application can prevent/resolve issues like it’s really really hard to get hired by an EA organisation and many others. It should produce real impact.
The best versions of a common application are much more impactful than OK versions.
A lot of important design decisions for this common application are hard to see and might depend on initial conditions.
There’s a tension between moving quickly and building a strong version of the common application. It was hoped to do this without time pressure.
It seems like putting up some job board, such as the eawork.club might serve well in the mean time.
To my knowledge, I’m not sure anyone is working on this “common application”. This probably has a lot of value.
One particular vision/proposal/description about it might be posted in the future (or you can just get started on planning it if you’re interested).