This is slightly relevant, in a recent 80,000 Hours’ blog post they suggest the following for people applying for EA jobs:
We generally encourage people to take an optimistic attitude to their job search and apply for roles they don’t expect to get. Four reasons for this are that, i) the upside of getting hired is typically many times larger than the cost of a job application process itself, ii) many people systematically underestimate themselves, iii) there’s a lot of randomness in these processes, which gives you a chance even if you’re not truly the top candidate, and iv) the best way to get good at job applications is to go through a lot of them.
This is slightly relevant, in a recent 80,000 Hours’ blog post they suggest the following for people applying for EA jobs: