I donāt think many EA organizations have implicit experience barriers of this kind. The roles that have been mostly hotly contested, with the most applicants, really are āgeneralistā positions (e.g. research associates at GiveWell or Open Phil, where more or less everyone [I think] gets to take the first basic work test, and credentials donāt seem like they matter if your work tests are strong).
Meanwhile, many positions at CEA (where I currently work) are filled by people whoād never done that kind of work in a professional setting before, or who only had experience with some (but not all) aspects of the job. My job is to write and edit, and my only prior āpaidā writing/āediting experience was in random freelance work here and there plus a few bits of journalism I wrote as a college student in ~2013, adding up to maybe one year of āfull-timeā experience.
That said, there may be non-experience ābarriersā that should come into play earlier, relating to a candidateās skill in a particular areaā¦ but that seems like āraise standards for your initial round of work testsā, not ātry to stop people from applying in the first placeā.
I donāt think many EA organizations have implicit experience barriers of this kind. The roles that have been mostly hotly contested, with the most applicants, really are āgeneralistā positions (e.g. research associates at GiveWell or Open Phil, where more or less everyone [I think] gets to take the first basic work test, and credentials donāt seem like they matter if your work tests are strong).
Meanwhile, many positions at CEA (where I currently work) are filled by people whoād never done that kind of work in a professional setting before, or who only had experience with some (but not all) aspects of the job. My job is to write and edit, and my only prior āpaidā writing/āediting experience was in random freelance work here and there plus a few bits of journalism I wrote as a college student in ~2013, adding up to maybe one year of āfull-timeā experience.
That said, there may be non-experience ābarriersā that should come into play earlier, relating to a candidateās skill in a particular areaā¦ but that seems like āraise standards for your initial round of work testsā, not ātry to stop people from applying in the first placeā.