Didn’t write it, but have two-thirds of a draft lying around to finish someday.
Leading a group is a good signal, but for most jobs, I think other qualifications will also be important (though these could include “having a strong application and doing well on work tests”). If you’re trying to do something that makes use of your econ knowledge (rather than your ops/organizing ability or general research skills), competing with PhDs will be tough.
I’m an unusual case, because I went to a one-off retreat for people interested in ops work at a time lots of orgs were hiring at once—it was a bit like a “job fair”. Had I not gone there, I’d have just kept checking the 80K job board, the “Effective Altruism Job Postings” Facebook group, and the websites of a few orgs I liked (if I’d seen that their jobs weren’t being added to the board).
Didn’t write it, but have two-thirds of a draft lying around to finish someday.
Leading a group is a good signal, but for most jobs, I think other qualifications will also be important (though these could include “having a strong application and doing well on work tests”). If you’re trying to do something that makes use of your econ knowledge (rather than your ops/organizing ability or general research skills), competing with PhDs will be tough.
I’m an unusual case, because I went to a one-off retreat for people interested in ops work at a time lots of orgs were hiring at once—it was a bit like a “job fair”. Had I not gone there, I’d have just kept checking the 80K job board, the “Effective Altruism Job Postings” Facebook group, and the websites of a few orgs I liked (if I’d seen that their jobs weren’t being added to the board).