I’m sorry you’ve had a hard time applying! Your BOTEC misses the costs for candidates, which is also important for EA orgs (eg I appreciate most work tests are paid).
Many jobs get 100+ initial applications. They usually have form questions that take less than 20 minutes to fill in—this is very much by design, as some of the most promising applicants are indeed not full-time job hunting but working, often outside the impact space. On the other hand, the shortest work tests I’ve had so far were capped at 1h. Assuming 50% of 100 applicants are filtered out at the initial stage, we have wasted 50h of applicant time vs ~17h. (Conservatively not counting the 49 people who will be eliminated later)
Adding: you might be right that the reason is your lack of social proximity. But it could also be that you express yourself suboptimally in the written questions, or your CV doesn’t present your skills well enough. One way more proximity to the community could help is by finding someone with hiring experience in the space who can give you feedback. :)
I’m sorry you’ve had a hard time applying! Your BOTEC misses the costs for candidates, which is also important for EA orgs (eg I appreciate most work tests are paid).
Many jobs get 100+ initial applications. They usually have form questions that take less than 20 minutes to fill in—this is very much by design, as some of the most promising applicants are indeed not full-time job hunting but working, often outside the impact space. On the other hand, the shortest work tests I’ve had so far were capped at 1h. Assuming 50% of 100 applicants are filtered out at the initial stage, we have wasted 50h of applicant time vs ~17h. (Conservatively not counting the 49 people who will be eliminated later)
Adding: you might be right that the reason is your lack of social proximity. But it could also be that you express yourself suboptimally in the written questions, or your CV doesn’t present your skills well enough. One way more proximity to the community could help is by finding someone with hiring experience in the space who can give you feedback. :)