Thanks to OP and commenters for sharing their experiences! Very helpful!
Based on this feedback, seems like it would be valuable for 80K to (significantly?) cut back the degree to which they curate their job board and/or for someone to create a list of all open jobs that could be broadly defined as EA. Either (or both) of these steps should help to address the issue of too many candidates chasing too few jobs.
There actually is a listing like this: the EA Work Club (https://eawork.club/). Although it’s aiming at EA community jobs, rather than all possible jobs which could be defined as EA, which is maybe what you were after.
Is there a website/central place where these kinds of community-made resources and 80K’s list of recommended orgs (such as the one for global health on the 80k wiki) are linked? I have only ever seen them mentioned in comments, but I imagine someone on the 80K website or even on the forums could miss them.
I’m not sure if this is the kind of place you were thinking, but the EA work club is linked to on the 80,000 Hours Job Board page (https://80000hours.org/job-board/) - at the bottom under ‘Other places to find vacancies’
Hi Michelle, thanks for your response! I hadn’t noticed that at the bottom of the job board page. I think that’s a good place for it—but I was also thinking of the other resources of organizations outside of EA that could be good places to skills-build. I know there are a few unofficial job boards (like Tom Wein’s) on various cause areas that could be very useful if they were located more centrally.
Thanks Michelle, great to learn about this resource, for some reason I’d thought it was only volunteer stuff. Will start posting jobs there going forward and hope other employers will too.
I would still like to see something broader exist as well… That’s the resource I’d want if I were an EA job seeker, since it’d let each candidate use their own perspective on what counts.
Thanks to OP and commenters for sharing their experiences! Very helpful!
Based on this feedback, seems like it would be valuable for 80K to (significantly?) cut back the degree to which they curate their job board and/or for someone to create a list of all open jobs that could be broadly defined as EA. Either (or both) of these steps should help to address the issue of too many candidates chasing too few jobs.
There actually is a listing like this: the EA Work Club (https://eawork.club/). Although it’s aiming at EA community jobs, rather than all possible jobs which could be defined as EA, which is maybe what you were after.
Is there a website/central place where these kinds of community-made resources and 80K’s list of recommended orgs (such as the one for global health on the 80k wiki) are linked? I have only ever seen them mentioned in comments, but I imagine someone on the 80K website or even on the forums could miss them.
I’m not sure if this is the kind of place you were thinking, but the EA work club is linked to on the 80,000 Hours Job Board page (https://80000hours.org/job-board/) - at the bottom under ‘Other places to find vacancies’
Hi Michelle, thanks for your response! I hadn’t noticed that at the bottom of the job board page. I think that’s a good place for it—but I was also thinking of the other resources of organizations outside of EA that could be good places to skills-build. I know there are a few unofficial job boards (like Tom Wein’s) on various cause areas that could be very useful if they were located more centrally.
Thanks Michelle, great to learn about this resource, for some reason I’d thought it was only volunteer stuff. Will start posting jobs there going forward and hope other employers will too.
I would still like to see something broader exist as well… That’s the resource I’d want if I were an EA job seeker, since it’d let each candidate use their own perspective on what counts.
The revamped EA Hub will be aiming to contribute to this problem.
Edit: comment and link removed as no longer relevant/applicable.
Thanks, helpful to know about!