In our current hiring round for EA Germany, I’m offering all 26 applicants “personal feedback on request if time allows”, and I think it’s probably worth my time at least trying to answer as many feedback requests as I can.
I’d encourage other EA recruiters to do the same, especially for those candidates that already did work tests. If you ask someone to spend 2h on an unpaid work test, it seems fair to make at least 5min time for feedback.
(Sidenote: Fwiw, I think people should also seriously consider actually paying honoraria for work tests, rather than leaving them unpaid. At least for longtermist and meta EA projects, I expect that if funders would fund staff costs they’d also fund the costs for paying applicants for their time spent on applications. At least, I can say for sure that that’d be my default stance as an EAIF guest manager.)
Agree!
In our current hiring round for EA Germany, I’m offering all 26 applicants “personal feedback on request if time allows”, and I think it’s probably worth my time at least trying to answer as many feedback requests as I can.
I’d encourage other EA recruiters to do the same, especially for those candidates that already did work tests. If you ask someone to spend 2h on an unpaid work test, it seems fair to make at least 5min time for feedback.
(Sidenote: Fwiw, I think people should also seriously consider actually paying honoraria for work tests, rather than leaving them unpaid. At least for longtermist and meta EA projects, I expect that if funders would fund staff costs they’d also fund the costs for paying applicants for their time spent on applications. At least, I can say for sure that that’d be my default stance as an EAIF guest manager.)