There are a few ways we distinguish ourselves, and hopefully complement 80K’s work.
Though the cause areas we care about are not mutually exclusive, we often focus on different cause areas (e.g. we’ve done a lot of work in global health and development, and have a talk about this work at EAG London—you’re welcome to come to the talk to hear more).
We aim to cater to a broader audience in terms of worldviews, geographic diversity, and educational background.
There are many differences in how we approach career advice, the most significant is that we are a lot more uncertain about things (as indicated by the name Probably Good) - this influences how we make recommendations, how we engage with advisees, what career paths we’re open to, and more.
Finally, and most importantly, it’s worth noting that we believe that impact-focused career advice is an incredibly large and important field, so we think it’s good to have multiple teams taking different approaches to it. Hence our primary drive for our work at Probably Good is not to be different from 80K (who are great and have been both an inspiration and a huge help in the creation of Probably Good), but rather to do more without necessarily trying to be similar.
Could you expand on your final bullet point please? What are the other significant differences and could you please be a bit more specific about how this changes your approach?
Thanks for asking!
There are a few ways we distinguish ourselves, and hopefully complement 80K’s work.
Though the cause areas we care about are not mutually exclusive, we often focus on different cause areas (e.g. we’ve done a lot of work in global health and development, and have a talk about this work at EAG London—you’re welcome to come to the talk to hear more).
We aim to cater to a broader audience in terms of worldviews, geographic diversity, and educational background.
There are many differences in how we approach career advice, the most significant is that we are a lot more uncertain about things (as indicated by the name Probably Good) - this influences how we make recommendations, how we engage with advisees, what career paths we’re open to, and more.
Finally, and most importantly, it’s worth noting that we believe that impact-focused career advice is an incredibly large and important field, so we think it’s good to have multiple teams taking different approaches to it. Hence our primary drive for our work at Probably Good is not to be different from 80K (who are great and have been both an inspiration and a huge help in the creation of Probably Good), but rather to do more without necessarily trying to be similar.
Great answer! Thank you :)
Could you expand on your final bullet point please? What are the other significant differences and could you please be a bit more specific about how this changes your approach?