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Per­sonal fit

TagLast edit: 29 Apr 2022 17:37 UTC by Leo

Personal fit is a measure of a person’s chances of excelling in a particular job.

Formally, personal fit it may be defined as the ratio of the person’s productivity in the job to the average productivity of other candidates likely to take that job. Personal fit is one of the factors in 80,000 Hours’ original career framework, as well as a key element in their current list of strategic considerations.[1]

Personal fit measures a person’s absolute advantage in a job. But a person’s comparative becomes relevant when coordination is feasible. In such cases, a career with lower personal fit may have a greater community impact.[2]

Further reading

Todd, Benjamin (2021) Personal fit: why being good at your job is even more important than people think, 80,000 Hours, September.

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    Todd, Benjamin (2018) Doing good together—how to coordinate effectively, and avoid single-player thinking, 80,000 Hours, September 21, section 3.

Two in­ter­views with Holden

Benjamin_Todd3 Oct 2014 21:44 UTC
7 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How do you op­ti­mise ca­reer choice based en­tirely on per­sonal fit?

shicky4431 Mar 2020 0:14 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

If Causes Differ Astro­nom­i­cally in Cost-Effec­tive­ness, Then Per­sonal Fit In Ca­reer Choice Is Unimportant

MichaelDickens23 Nov 2020 22:47 UTC
22 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Curve­ball Alert Re­quest: How has your job changed over time?

tcelferact2 Jun 2021 17:27 UTC
19 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A do-gooder’s safari

Owen Cotton-Barratt3 Jul 2021 11:03 UTC
168 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

The case against “EA cause ar­eas”

nadavb17 Jul 2021 6:37 UTC
137 points
24 comments13 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: The case against “EA cause ar­eas”

D0TheMath24 Jul 2021 20:39 UTC
12 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Needed: In­put on test­ing fit for your career

CEvans16 Aug 2021 15:22 UTC
35 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Cal New­port on an in­dus­trial rev­olu­tion for office work

80000_Hours27 Aug 2021 18:37 UTC
5 points
0 comments100 min readEA link

How to Get an EA-al­igned Job: My Experience

SofiaBalderson3 Dec 2021 16:08 UTC
151 points
15 comments17 min readEA link

Ad­vice I’ve Found Helpful as I Ap­ply to EA Jobs

Akash23 Jan 2022 18:53 UTC
90 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Oper­a­tions Manager

Joy Bittner26 Jan 2022 14:06 UTC
143 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Skills/​ex­per­tise map­ping for di­rect work?

Likith Govindaiah19 Mar 2022 15:30 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Don’t think, just ap­ply! (usu­ally)

MichaelA12 Apr 2022 8:06 UTC
138 points
21 comments7 min readEA link

Com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage does not mean do­ing the thing you’re best at

Ben_West29 Apr 2022 15:49 UTC
134 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Case Study of EA Global Re­jec­tion + Crit­i­cisms/​Solutions

Constance Li23 Sep 2022 11:38 UTC
234 points
157 comments24 min readEA link

Creative EA job hunt­ing: things you can do in ad­di­tion to filling out job applications

SofiaBalderson27 Oct 2022 20:27 UTC
46 points
4 comments22 min readEA link

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Re­search Ca­reers—Prob­a­bly Good

Probably Good5 Jan 2023 15:05 UTC
51 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.probablygood.org)

“My Model Of EA Burnout” (Lo­gan Strohl)

Will Aldred3 Feb 2023 0:23 UTC
97 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

List of Short-Term (<15 hours) Biose­cu­rity Pro­jects to Test Your Fit

Sofya Lebedeva17 Apr 2023 5:10 UTC
167 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Test fit for roles /​ job types /​ work types, not cause areas

freedomandutility3 May 2023 14:43 UTC
91 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Difficult to get a job in EA not liv­ing in the West? An­i­mal ad­vo­cacy ca­reers can im­pact mil­lions of an­i­mals any­where in the world

Animal Advocacy Careers13 Sep 2023 13:34 UTC
88 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Per­sonal fit is ex­tremely im­por­tant when as­sess­ing an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy ca­reer paths

Animal Advocacy Careers15 Sep 2023 9:01 UTC
22 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] Ex­plor­ing an EA Equiv­a­lent to Job Si­mu­la­tion Web­sites for Skills and Ap­ti­tude Devel­op­ment & Seek­ing In­sights on EA-Aligned Organizations

Aaron Graifman15 Feb 2024 4:36 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Per­sonal fit is differ­ent from the thing that you already like

Joris P17 Mar 2024 20:56 UTC
77 points
7 comments1 min readEA link