Help people find more promising job opportunities, including in cause areas that aren’t as thoroughly covered by other impact-focused boards such as 80,000 Hours and Animal Advocacy Careers.
Could you elaborate on which opportunities would be on your board, but not on 80,000 Hours’ or Animal Advocacy Careers’? 80,000 Hours has opportunities in many areas in their job board. Do you think they would not be open to including the ones you think they are missing? For reference, here are the opportunities they are currently listing by area:
The comparison with Animal Advocacy Careers is simplest—they focus on animal advocacy careers (or animal welfare more broadly).
80,000 Hours indeed have a broader set of cause areas, with significant overlap with ours. That being said, there are several differences. 80K has more roles in longtermist or x-risk focused cause areas, while we focus more on other areas. We already have more jobs in absolute numbers in Global Health & Development—as this is a major area of focus for us and for a large portion of our audience.
Over time we expect this to be true for more of our already-included cause areas, like climate change, mental health, global aid policy, and others. This is our job board’s first week so it’ll take time. But we already see them as part of our core mission.
Finally, as we noted in the post—even for roles that already appear on other job boards, we’re hoping having them on the Probably Good website will expose them to our audience, most of which finds us without prior familiarity with 80K or AAC.
We already have more jobs in absolute numbers in Global Health & Development—as this is a major area of focus for us and for a large portion of our audience.
I wonder whether 80 k would be open to adding the positions in global health and development which they are missing and you are listing. I have also noticed AAC’s job board has around 83 positions listed, which is more than the 51 in 80 k’s board, so I have encouraged them to consider adding the missing positions.
Jumping in here just to say @Probably Good I think its great to have extra exposure to the animal welfare roles! Thanks for doing this.
In regards to having the same roles as 80k i think this is unrealistic as we have different parameters on what roles and organisations we are monitoring so that seems unlikely to happen, even though I agree it would be good.
In regards to having the same roles as 80k i think this is unrealistic as we have different parameters on what roles and organisations we are monitoring so that seems unlikely to happen, even though I agree it would be good.
I encourage you to share such parameters with Conor Barnes. He replied to my feedback, and was open to including roles which are listed on AAC’s board that are not listed on 80,000 Hours’ board.
Thanks for the update!
Could you elaborate on which opportunities would be on your board, but not on 80,000 Hours’ or Animal Advocacy Careers’? 80,000 Hours has opportunities in many areas in their job board. Do you think they would not be open to including the ones you think they are missing? For reference, here are the opportunities they are currently listing by area:
Thanks for asking!
The comparison with Animal Advocacy Careers is simplest—they focus on animal advocacy careers (or animal welfare more broadly).
80,000 Hours indeed have a broader set of cause areas, with significant overlap with ours. That being said, there are several differences. 80K has more roles in longtermist or x-risk focused cause areas, while we focus more on other areas. We already have more jobs in absolute numbers in Global Health & Development—as this is a major area of focus for us and for a large portion of our audience.
Over time we expect this to be true for more of our already-included cause areas, like climate change, mental health, global aid policy, and others. This is our job board’s first week so it’ll take time. But we already see them as part of our core mission.
Finally, as we noted in the post—even for roles that already appear on other job boards, we’re hoping having them on the Probably Good website will expose them to our audience, most of which finds us without prior familiarity with 80K or AAC.
Thanks for the follow-up!
I wonder whether 80 k would be open to adding the positions in global health and development which they are missing and you are listing. I have also noticed AAC’s job board has around 83 positions listed, which is more than the 51 in 80 k’s board, so I have encouraged them to consider adding the missing positions.
Jumping in here just to say @Probably Good I think its great to have extra exposure to the animal welfare roles! Thanks for doing this.
In regards to having the same roles as 80k i think this is unrealistic as we have different parameters on what roles and organisations we are monitoring so that seems unlikely to happen, even though I agree it would be good.
Thanks, Lauren.
I encourage you to share such parameters with Conor Barnes. He replied to my feedback, and was open to including roles which are listed on AAC’s board that are not listed on 80,000 Hours’ board.