Several of CEA’s new hires over the past couple of years have been people older than 30 with no prior EA experience, who in at least some cases were responding to materials that were “broad” enough to include them in the discussion. This doesn’t necessarily mean that we should be investing a lot of effort into reaching experienced people, but they do apply for first-time EA jobs!
Two examples of impressive older people switching into EA work (no comment on how much impact they’ve had in their roles):
Open Philanthropy’s Beth Jones (led ops for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, worked on Obama’s staff)
ex-MIRI staffer Edward Kmett, one of the world’s foremost Haskell programmers, who worked there for ~3 years
Several of CEA’s new hires over the past couple of years have been people older than 30 with no prior EA experience, who in at least some cases were responding to materials that were “broad” enough to include them in the discussion. This doesn’t necessarily mean that we should be investing a lot of effort into reaching experienced people, but they do apply for first-time EA jobs!
Two examples of impressive older people switching into EA work (no comment on how much impact they’ve had in their roles):
Open Philanthropy’s Beth Jones (led ops for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, worked on Obama’s staff)
ex-MIRI staffer Edward Kmett, one of the world’s foremost Haskell programmers, who worked there for ~3 years