Unsolicited advice-seeking (respond to all, some, or none, as your schedule and interests permit): Is being the “leader of a moderately successful student group” in itself a useful qualification for getting EA jobs? And if so, where do you find openings where it’s relevant? (I’m the leader of a moderately successful student group! :D) I just finished a bachelors in economics and my very preliminary search of EA-adjacent job postings has turned up a lot of opportunities for grad students, phd’s, or programmers, of which I am none. (Fwiw I might actuallybe overestimating my qualifications, given that I can’t code and my only significant paid job experience is tutoring.)
FWIW, I think tutoring EAs can be a valuable intervention, though maybe won’t ever be big enough for an org (or possibly even a single person) to work on this full-time.
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).
Did you ever write this? I’d love to read it.
Unsolicited advice-seeking (respond to all, some, or none, as your schedule and interests permit): Is being the “leader of a moderately successful student group” in itself a useful qualification for getting EA jobs? And if so, where do you find openings where it’s relevant? (I’m the leader of a moderately successful student group! :D) I just finished a bachelors in economics and my very preliminary search of EA-adjacent job postings has turned up a lot of opportunities for grad students, phd’s, or programmers, of which I am none. (Fwiw I might actually be overestimating my qualifications, given that I can’t code and my only significant paid job experience is tutoring.)
FWIW, I think tutoring EAs can be a valuable intervention, though maybe won’t ever be big enough for an org (or possibly even a single person) to work on this full-time.
Now on a massive tangent, but maybe you could offer to subsidize people buying tutoring from Wyzant?
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).