If somebody can’t evaluate jobs on the job board for themselves, I’m not that confident that they’ll take a good path regardless. People have a tendency to try to offload thinking to places like 80k, and I actually think it could be bad if 80k made it easier to do that on extremely fine grained topics like individual jobs.
I often agree with something in this direction in specific cases, when there is some skill that is present in both the job choosing and job performing endeavour. I think job choosing is often largely about ‘having good judgement and caring a lot’ whereas doing well in a job often does not rely on ‘having good judgment’.
I think there are many examples of solid software engineers, operations staff, marketers etc. where having good judgement does not seem to be particularly important for their role (although that’s not to say good judgement and these roles are anticorrelated or that good judgment isn’t ever required here).
I think you’re right and it’s worth thinking about these cases. That being said, I think tail impact is going to come from people who have good judgement including on how to develop their careers, open new opportunities, and select future jobs across their career. It’s unclear to me which group the 80k job board should be catering to, but plausibly those most extremely self-motivated people don’t need a job board to show them their options.
I often agree with something in this direction in specific cases, when there is some skill that is present in both the job choosing and job performing endeavour. I think job choosing is often largely about ‘having good judgement and caring a lot’ whereas doing well in a job often does not rely on ‘having good judgment’.
I think there are many examples of solid software engineers, operations staff, marketers etc. where having good judgement does not seem to be particularly important for their role (although that’s not to say good judgement and these roles are anticorrelated or that good judgment isn’t ever required here).
I think you’re right and it’s worth thinking about these cases. That being said, I think tail impact is going to come from people who have good judgement including on how to develop their careers, open new opportunities, and select future jobs across their career. It’s unclear to me which group the 80k job board should be catering to, but plausibly those most extremely self-motivated people don’t need a job board to show them their options.
+1
People who don’t need a job board don’t need a job board