A consultancy is a professional practice that provides expert advice in a particular field or subject.
Effective altruism organizations are often constrained by the difficulty of accessing talented specialists when their needs fluctuate too rapidly to justify a new hire. Effective altruism consultancies have been proposed as a partial solution to this problem.[1] People capable of doing temporary work for a variety of organizations could be permanently employed by such consultancies. Possible examples of effective altruism consultancies include Rethink Priorities, Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative and Good Growth.
Further reading
80,000 Hours (2021) All content tagged “consulting”, 80,000 Hours.
Beckstead, Nick (2015) Management consulting (for skill-building & earning to give), 80,000 Hours, March (updated April 2015).
Muehlhauser, Luke (2021) EA needs consultancies, Effective Altruism Forum, June 28.
Todd, Benjamin (2019) Before committing to management consulting, consider directly entering priority paths, policy, startups, and other options, 80,000 Hours, November.
Related entries
career choice | Effective Altruism and Consulting Network | org strategy | scalably using labour | working at EA vs. non-EA orgs
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Muehlhauser, Luke (2021) EA needs consultancies, Effective Altruism Forum, June 28.
Possible names for this entry:
Consultancy
Consulting
Consultants
Consultancies
Some types of things this entry & tag could cover:
Posts relevant to the idea of EAs acting as consultants to other EAs
E.g., this shortform of mine and maybe some links provided in it would warrant this tag if they were top-level Forum posts
Posts relevant to the idea of non-EAs acting as consultants to EAs
Posts about pros and cons of EAs doing non-EA consultancy work (e.g. management consultancy), tips for doing that, etc.