EAs often don’t apply because the application forms are too long
In impact colabs, sometimes people don’t even fill in our form, and they schedule a talk with me instead
Also, “eyes on the ball”:
The top priority bottle neck that I am trying to solve is “letting EA orgs contact candidates”.
All the other questions more or less help filter down candidates.
If you help EA orgs filter candidates at the cost of “scaring away” some candidates because of a too long form—then I think you are probably making a mistake, or at least I would think very hard before doing it.
Note that I haven’t heard from EA orgs that they get too many candidates and need help filtering them down. So this falls into “solving a problem that may not exist”.
I do think/hope that asking what general profession the person wants to work in would not deter too many people (especially since I offer checkboxes). I do admit, though, that I am not confident that even asking for a CV/linkedin is a good idea since candidates are often nervous about it (but I decided yes to include it by default)
OK, there should be a minimal option (e. g. just upload a CV)
I could be interested in speaking with people, maybe I can test via a Calendly link for a test period (speaking can still be the most efficient)
eyes on the ball: after speaking with people, they have to fill out the form?
There should be the option to just link a CV. After, people could answer more questions or schedule a call.
Ok, so getting people upload a CV may be key.
Oh, well, they have to upload something. They can always update or delete it and will not be penalized for any earlier uploads as these are overwritten. Maybe asking about priorities that they think progress should be made in can provide similar information to what they want to make progress in but make people less nervous.
A few maybe-blind-spots:
EAs often don’t apply because the application forms are too long
In impact colabs, sometimes people don’t even fill in our form, and they schedule a talk with me instead
Also, “eyes on the ball”:
The top priority bottle neck that I am trying to solve is “letting EA orgs contact candidates”.
All the other questions more or less help filter down candidates.
If you help EA orgs filter candidates at the cost of “scaring away” some candidates because of a too long form—then I think you are probably making a mistake, or at least I would think very hard before doing it.
Note that I haven’t heard from EA orgs that they get too many candidates and need help filtering them down. So this falls into “solving a problem that may not exist”.
I do think/hope that asking what general profession the person wants to work in would not deter too many people (especially since I offer checkboxes). I do admit, though, that I am not confident that even asking for a CV/linkedin is a good idea since candidates are often nervous about it (but I decided yes to include it by default)
OK, there should be a minimal option (e. g. just upload a CV)
I could be interested in speaking with people, maybe I can test via a Calendly link for a test period (speaking can still be the most efficient)
eyes on the ball: after speaking with people, they have to fill out the form?
There should be the option to just link a CV. After, people could answer more questions or schedule a call.
Ok, so getting people upload a CV may be key.
Oh, well, they have to upload something. They can always update or delete it and will not be penalized for any earlier uploads as these are overwritten. Maybe asking about priorities that they think progress should be made in can provide similar information to what they want to make progress in but make people less nervous.