I’d add that as a person who has done recruiting for EA orgs, I like to try to hire from talented-seeming EA forum posters and it is a lot easier to try to recruit someone when their full name is accessible from their username or bio.
As someone who works in your org, I’m confused about how this works in practice fwiw. As far as I understand it:
in the main hiring rounds, we have application blinding in approximately all rounds except the interview stage, so having an impressive EA Forum presence, real-name or otherwise, shouldn’t be too applicable.
sometimes we allow people who either perform well in past hiring rounds, or we are otherwise very confident in their competence, to skip certain stages, but I’m not sure how much real vs pseudonym EA Forum acc will be relevant here.
Occasionally we try to recruit people off-cycle, but to the best of my knowledge a) this is rarely due to EAF contributions (compared to other contributions) and b) it’s not hard to just ping an username expressing interest. EAF has a messaging system!
I’m not aware of many (any?) research hires that were actually made off-cycle.
I’d add that as a person who has done recruiting for EA orgs, I like to try to hire from talented-seeming EA forum posters and it is a lot easier to try to recruit someone when their full name is accessible from their username or bio.
did you ever search the forum for negative indicators of whether someone is unfit?
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As someone who works in your org, I’m confused about how this works in practice fwiw. As far as I understand it:
in the main hiring rounds, we have application blinding in approximately all rounds except the interview stage, so having an impressive EA Forum presence, real-name or otherwise, shouldn’t be too applicable.
sometimes we allow people who either perform well in past hiring rounds, or we are otherwise very confident in their competence, to skip certain stages, but I’m not sure how much real vs pseudonym EA Forum acc will be relevant here.
Occasionally we try to recruit people off-cycle, but to the best of my knowledge a) this is rarely due to EAF contributions (compared to other contributions) and b) it’s not hard to just ping an username expressing interest. EAF has a messaging system!
I’m not aware of many (any?) research hires that were actually made off-cycle.
The main thing would be reaching out to invite people to apply to our hiring rounds.
I do concede we could invite anonymous people to apply though.
You’re right that we don’t do much off-cycle recruiting.
I’ve done this before fwiw.
Can’t people just link to their EA Forum profile, just like linking to their GitHub profile?