Conor Barnes 🔶 comments on Is EA still ‘talent-constrained’?

[Conor Barnes 🔶]

I strongly agree with @Bella’s comment. I’d like to add:

• I encourage job-seekers to not think of EA jobs as the one way to have impact in one’s career. Almost all impactful roles are not at EA orgs. On the 80,000 Hours job board we try to find the most promising ones, but we won’t catch everything!

• Our co-worker Laura González Salmerón has a great talk on this topic.

• Even if the movement is not talent-constrained, the problems we’re trying to solve are talent-constrained. The world still needs way more people working on catastrophic risks, animal welfare, and global health, whether or not there are EA organisations hiring for roles.

• Earning to give remains a wonderful option.

[SiobhanBall]

Hi Conor! Thanks for commenting. We met briefly at EAG Global.

- You won’t catch everything, but your job board is an obvious go-to for people who believe in EA and want to plan their careers accordingly, as they’ve been encouraged to do.
- I find myself disagreeable on several of the points in Laura’s post, in particular ‘It’s pure luck that an organisation asked someone who happens to know and remember me’. That’s not luck (well, a bit). EA is still a sufficiently small community where positive reputation doesn’t happen by accident, so that’s merit—and more weight should be put on it!
- Earning to give is also a good ‘catch all’ for people who haven’t got a position within an EA org.

[Sam_E_24]

been interesting to read these comment threads

in case it’s helpful, here are a couple of other miscellaneous job search resources–besides the 80k and Probably Good job boards–that I used to share when i did university group organizing:

- Breakthrough Energy job board—opportunities at cleantech companies that are funded or endorsed somehow by bill gates

- https://​​jobs.engine.xyz/​​jobs—climate and related startups backed by an MIT-affiliated VC firm

- https://​​www.ycombinator.com/​​jobs—

influencers on LinkedIn such as https://​​www.linkedin.com/​​in/​​nicholascmartin/​​ , who posted this list:

General:

1. idealist

2. Impact Pool
3. PCDN
4. Net Impact
5. Escape the City
6. NextBillion Jobs
7. Koya Partners (Execs)
8. Impact Opportunity
9. LinkedIn (Search for social impact, NGO)
10. The Bloom (Newsletter)

#InternationalDevelopment:
11. Humentum
12. ICT4DJobs
13. Devex
14. GlobalJobs
15. DevNet Jobs
16. KeyLime (Contract work)
17. SID-W
18. NGOJobBoard
19. Jonusta (Contract work)
20. Thrive (Global Health)

#humanitarianaid:
21. UNJobs
22. ReliefWeb
23. ALNAP

#Nonprofit and #philanthropy:
24. NationalNonprofits
25. WorkforGood
26. Chronicle of Philanthropy
28. Council on Foundations
29. NTEN (Non Profit and Tech)
30. Philanthropy NW
31. Imaginable Futures
32. Daybook (Policy, Politics)
33. Philanthropynewsdigest

#Socent:
34. ReconsideredJobs
35. GIIN
36. BWork
37. Social Innovation Jobs
38. BMeaningful
39. ANDE Career Center
40. WordSpark Social Impact Job Board

Regional:
41. DevelopmentAid (Europe)
42. MakeSense (Europe)
43. BOND (Europe)
44. Coordination Sud (France)
45. Acodev (Belgium)
46. Volint (Italy)
47. CharityJob (UK)
48. Eurobrussels (Europe)
49. Third Sector Jobs (UK)
50. CharityVillage (Canada)
51. Daleel Madani (MENA)
52. Ethical Jobs (Australia)
53. Seek (Australia)
54. Matteria (Latin America)
55. NGOJobsInAfrica (Africa)
56. Asia/​Pacific UNDP Jobs (Asia)
57. Arthan Careers (India)
58. Naukri (India)
59. Akhaboot (Jordan)
60. Tech Jobs for Good (mostly US)
61. The Hague Humanity Hub (Europe)
62. USAJobs [dot] gov (US agencies, including USAID, DOS, Peace Corps)
63. Work for Impact (Global freelancers)
64. GoodJobs (Germany)

[SiobhanBall]

Hi Sam, yeah a lot of lurkers here I think. Wow, thanks for writing! I’ll check those out.