Maybe it’s easier in effective animal advocacy, because there’s a broader animal advocacy movement to draw from and some large animal advocacy orgs building talent? Also, EAs seem to disproportionately have STEM backgrounds and want to do research, but this is probably not the case for animal advocates in general, so the proportion of animal advocates with ops skills may be higher than for EAs.
Yeah that makes sense to me—RP definitely is at an advantage in being able to recruit people interested in tons of different topics, and they might still be value aligned? I’d say that we’ve gotten some very good longtermism focused ops candidates, but maybe not proportional to the number of jobs in EA? Not sure though. I think remote work really factors heavily—most of the organizations mentioned in this thread as having open positions that they are struggling to fill aren’t hiring remotely, and are just hiring in the Bay Area it looks like.
Maybe it’s easier in effective animal advocacy, because there’s a broader animal advocacy movement to draw from and some large animal advocacy orgs building talent? Also, EAs seem to disproportionately have STEM backgrounds and want to do research, but this is probably not the case for animal advocates in general, so the proportion of animal advocates with ops skills may be higher than for EAs.
Yeah that makes sense to me—RP definitely is at an advantage in being able to recruit people interested in tons of different topics, and they might still be value aligned? I’d say that we’ve gotten some very good longtermism focused ops candidates, but maybe not proportional to the number of jobs in EA? Not sure though. I think remote work really factors heavily—most of the organizations mentioned in this thread as having open positions that they are struggling to fill aren’t hiring remotely, and are just hiring in the Bay Area it looks like.