I’ve started this “EA Careers and 80,000 Hours Discussion” group on Facebook. It’s primary purpose is for individuals to take advatange of the effective altruism and 80,000 Hours members networks to ask or offer questions or advice about how to making career decisions. That may cover much of what you’re looking for here. It’s existed for just over a week, and it already has 270 members.
I think this group is useful by encouraging more people to ask for careers advice and I’m already using it. It doesn’t however encourage people ask for a connection. That’s the part that not so well-connected people are often not comfortable with doing in the existing groups.
Yeah, my tacit goal of starting the group is get all the people who could or would offer the best advice, or are the most well-connected within effective altruism so they can point newcomers to other experts they know, would be in one place so we could convince them all at once to use the new resources on the Effective Altruism Hub, like the “what can you offer” section, and the integration of Skillshare, when they’ve been completed. The Facebook group acts as an interim resource until we have a better system to connect others.
Go ahead and create an additional Facebook group to meet the other goals you made in the OP, if you think it’s worth it.
I’d be happy to create this if people want it. Just don’t want to annoy the ones I talked to who say we have too many fb groups. So if anyone is for or against this let me know via a comment or vote.
I’ve started this “EA Careers and 80,000 Hours Discussion” group on Facebook. It’s primary purpose is for individuals to take advatange of the effective altruism and 80,000 Hours members networks to ask or offer questions or advice about how to making career decisions. That may cover much of what you’re looking for here. It’s existed for just over a week, and it already has 270 members.
I think this group is useful by encouraging more people to ask for careers advice and I’m already using it. It doesn’t however encourage people ask for a connection. That’s the part that not so well-connected people are often not comfortable with doing in the existing groups.
Yeah, my tacit goal of starting the group is get all the people who could or would offer the best advice, or are the most well-connected within effective altruism so they can point newcomers to other experts they know, would be in one place so we could convince them all at once to use the new resources on the Effective Altruism Hub, like the “what can you offer” section, and the integration of Skillshare, when they’ve been completed. The Facebook group acts as an interim resource until we have a better system to connect others.
Go ahead and create an additional Facebook group to meet the other goals you made in the OP, if you think it’s worth it.
I’d be happy to create this if people want it. Just don’t want to annoy the ones I talked to who say we have too many fb groups. So if anyone is for or against this let me know via a comment or vote.