What do you think about candidates who might not be ‘culturally EA’ or come from an EA background (i.e. know what EA is, have previous affiliation, consume EA content), but who would otherwise be good at running a cost-effective charity? (ex. How important is it to have them? How upset would you be if you got a cohort of 100% culturally EA people? Do you worry if the recruitment process selects against them?)
A good question—we try and make our application effectively ‘EA-neutral’ but in practice I expect that our recruitment process is a little skewed in favour of people from an EA background. My guess is that’s down to a greater familiarity with the types of questions or tasks we ask for (e.g. making a weighted factor model), and it being easier to pick up on key things we care about—like a commitment to cost-effectiveness—when people communicate this in an EA way.
Ultimately, we care about finding people who have the base traits we care about—we’re equally open to a 0% or 100% culturally EA cohort if we feel like that’s the best group of people who applied.
What do you think about candidates who might not be ‘culturally EA’ or come from an EA background (i.e. know what EA is, have previous affiliation, consume EA content), but who would otherwise be good at running a cost-effective charity? (ex. How important is it to have them? How upset would you be if you got a cohort of 100% culturally EA people? Do you worry if the recruitment process selects against them?)
A good question—we try and make our application effectively ‘EA-neutral’ but in practice I expect that our recruitment process is a little skewed in favour of people from an EA background. My guess is that’s down to a greater familiarity with the types of questions or tasks we ask for (e.g. making a weighted factor model), and it being easier to pick up on key things we care about—like a commitment to cost-effectiveness—when people communicate this in an EA way.
Ultimately, we care about finding people who have the base traits we care about—we’re equally open to a 0% or 100% culturally EA cohort if we feel like that’s the best group of people who applied.