Thanks for writing! If something like this doesn’t already exist, perhaps someone should start an ops fellowship where there is a centralised hiring round, and then the selected applicants are placed at different orgs to help with entry-level ops tasks. Perhaps one bottleneck here is it is hard for research to be net negative (short of being infohazardous, or just wasting a mentor’s time), but doing low quality ops work could be retty bad for an org. Maybe that is partly why orgs don’t want to outsource ops work to junior interns? Not sure.
Thanks for writing! If something like this doesn’t already exist, perhaps someone should start an ops fellowship where there is a centralised hiring round, and then the selected applicants are placed at different orgs to help with entry-level ops tasks. Perhaps one bottleneck here is it is hard for research to be net negative (short of being infohazardous, or just wasting a mentor’s time), but doing low quality ops work could be retty bad for an org. Maybe that is partly why orgs don’t want to outsource ops work to junior interns? Not sure.
yes exactly thats what I’ve heard—orgs are reluctant to accept inexperienced ops people. I’d love to see a way round it!