Thank you very much for doing this. However, I’m surprised by the claim that “research organizations have trouble filling a senior-level researcher talent gap”. I’ve worked as an animal advocacy researcher in EA orgs for five years and had the title of senior researcher. I am looking for a researcher job right now and I can’t even find anywhere to apply for, at least without a PhD. Well, GiveWell is hiring but I don’t want to work in global health. I was loosely following animal welfare researcher and non-longtermist generalist researcher open jobs at EA orgs this whole year and that was the situation most of the time. I found maybe 7 jobs I could apply for (although I wasn’t genuinely looking for a job until now so I might have missed some). Most of them would’ve required me to compromise on what topics I work for or where I live. In two cases where I talked to people advertising these jobs, I was told that there was a lot of competition (I wasn’t rejected from these jobs so I wasn’t told that as an excuse). For an animal welfare job that required to do cost-effectiveness analyses, people with a background in cost-effectiveness analyses in global health applied. I basically concluded that at least for now, I either need to make up my own topics and apply to EA funds to research them, or to change my career. So I was a bit surprised by this claim. But I don’t want to overstate my surprise, perhaps the situation in global health, mental health, and biosecurity is different.
Thank you very much for doing this. However, I’m surprised by the claim that “research organizations have trouble filling a senior-level researcher talent gap”. I’ve worked as an animal advocacy researcher in EA orgs for five years and had the title of senior researcher. I am looking for a researcher job right now and I can’t even find anywhere to apply for, at least without a PhD. Well, GiveWell is hiring but I don’t want to work in global health. I was loosely following animal welfare researcher and non-longtermist generalist researcher open jobs at EA orgs this whole year and that was the situation most of the time. I found maybe 7 jobs I could apply for (although I wasn’t genuinely looking for a job until now so I might have missed some). Most of them would’ve required me to compromise on what topics I work for or where I live. In two cases where I talked to people advertising these jobs, I was told that there was a lot of competition (I wasn’t rejected from these jobs so I wasn’t told that as an excuse). For an animal welfare job that required to do cost-effectiveness analyses, people with a background in cost-effectiveness analyses in global health applied. I basically concluded that at least for now, I either need to make up my own topics and apply to EA funds to research them, or to change my career. So I was a bit surprised by this claim. But I don’t want to overstate my surprise, perhaps the situation in global health, mental health, and biosecurity is different.