Thanks for this post, as I’ve been trying to find a high-impact job that’s a good personal fit for 9 months now. I have noticed that EA organizations use what appears to be a cookie-cutter recruitment process with remarkable similarities across organizations and cause areas. This process is also radically different from what non-EA nonprofit organizations use for recruitment. Presumably EA organizations adopted this process because there’s evidence behind its effectiveness but I’d love to see what that evidence actually is. I suspect it privileges younger, (childless?) applicants with time to burn, but I don’t have data to back up this suspicion other than viewing the staff pages of EA orgs.
Can you say more about cookie-cutter recruitment? I don’t have a good sense of what you mean here.
I think solving this is tricky. I want hiring to be efficient, but most ways hiring orgs can get information take time, and that’s always going to be easier for people with more free time. I think EA has an admirable norm of paying for trials and deserves a lot of credit for that.
Thanks for this post, as I’ve been trying to find a high-impact job that’s a good personal fit for 9 months now. I have noticed that EA organizations use what appears to be a cookie-cutter recruitment process with remarkable similarities across organizations and cause areas. This process is also radically different from what non-EA nonprofit organizations use for recruitment. Presumably EA organizations adopted this process because there’s evidence behind its effectiveness but I’d love to see what that evidence actually is. I suspect it privileges younger, (childless?) applicants with time to burn, but I don’t have data to back up this suspicion other than viewing the staff pages of EA orgs.
Can you say more about cookie-cutter recruitment? I don’t have a good sense of what you mean here.
I think solving this is tricky. I want hiring to be efficient, but most ways hiring orgs can get information take time, and that’s always going to be easier for people with more free time. I think EA has an admirable norm of paying for trials and deserves a lot of credit for that.