Here are roles Rethink Priorities has hired for since 2020. There hasnāt been any real trend as far as I can see, except that my subjective impression is that the number of highly qualified applicants for research roles and operations roles is up, suggesting that it is getting harder to get a job at RP.
Our most competitive hiring round was for an Operations Associate a few months ago. Our researcher roles are in specific cause areas, so itās hard to compare directly to when we hired general researchers, but my impression is that they are up. We consistently get far fewer applications for management roles. For non-management roles, we still regularly get 60+ applications per offer we make.
The roles with * are ongoing hiring processes, so this is just my best guess at how many people we might end up hiring for each.
Only one person got the position; however, I referred several other strong applicants to positions at other organizations, so you could view the āsuccessā rate as 1ā61 rather than 1ā183.
Maybe some orgs who have been hiring consistently could share the trend on number of applicants per position?
Here are roles Rethink Priorities has hired for since 2020. There hasnāt been any real trend as far as I can see, except that my subjective impression is that the number of highly qualified applicants for research roles and operations roles is up, suggesting that it is getting harder to get a job at RP.
Our most competitive hiring round was for an Operations Associate a few months ago. Our researcher roles are in specific cause areas, so itās hard to compare directly to when we hired general researchers, but my impression is that they are up. We consistently get far fewer applications for management roles. For non-management roles, we still regularly get 60+ applications per offer we make.
The roles with * are ongoing hiring processes, so this is just my best guess at how many people we might end up hiring for each.
CEA had 183 applicants for a copyeditor position in 2019 (I think I advertised the position too widely and undershot the amount of experience I was looking for).
Only one person got the position; however, I referred several other strong applicants to positions at other organizations, so you could view the āsuccessā rate as 1ā61 rather than 1ā183.