Thank you for pointing that out, I agree candidates should not consider such a low number of applications not resulting in full-time offers strong evidence against them having a chance.
I am not sure whether the question of whether one has a chance at an ‘EA job’ is even a good one however. ‘EA jobs’ are actually lots of different roles which are not very comparable to one another. They do not make for a good category one should be thinking about—but rather about which field someone might be interested in working in, and what kind of role might be a good fit. Some of which may so happen to be at EA orgs, but most will not.
Also, I appreciate I did not clarify this in the post, but I did not get rejected from all 7 roles I applied to in 2018 - I got rejected from 5, dropped out of 1 and could not do the 3-month trial stage I was invited to for visa reasons 1 time.
Thank you for pointing that out, I agree candidates should not consider such a low number of applications not resulting in full-time offers strong evidence against them having a chance.
I am not sure whether the question of whether one has a chance at an ‘EA job’ is even a good one however. ‘EA jobs’ are actually lots of different roles which are not very comparable to one another. They do not make for a good category one should be thinking about—but rather about which field someone might be interested in working in, and what kind of role might be a good fit. Some of which may so happen to be at EA orgs, but most will not.
Also, I appreciate I did not clarify this in the post, but I did not get rejected from all 7 roles I applied to in 2018 - I got rejected from 5, dropped out of 1 and could not do the 3-month trial stage I was invited to for visa reasons 1 time.