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TagLast edit: 6 Jul 2023 12:20 UTC by Dane Valerie

The rejections topic is for posts about how to handle professional and personal rejection, discussions about how to mitigate the harms of rejection, strategies for overcoming the fear of rejection, and stories of resilience and growth following rejection. These discussions often aim to provide support, share experiences, and promote a healthy perspective on rejection.

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Re­jected from all the “EA” Jobs you ap­plied for? - What to do now?

guneyulasturker 🔸5 Sep 2025 14:20 UTC
150 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

The Cost of Rejection

Daystar Eld8 Oct 2021 12:35 UTC
308 points
48 comments8 min readEA link

On failing to get EA jobs: My ex­pe­rience and recom­men­da­tions to EA orgs

Avila22 Apr 2024 21:19 UTC
131 points
55 comments5 min readEA link

Re­jec­tion thread: sto­ries and tips

Luisa_Rodriguez22 Jun 2023 15:00 UTC
65 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Ad­vice on job re­jec­tion /​ grief that fol­lows

kruti.maru21 May 2025 16:11 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Cel­e­brat­ing rejection

rcohen24 Jan 2022 6:41 UTC
43 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theatlantic.com)

Benefits of be­ing re­jected from CEA’s On­line team

Ben_West🔸3 Jul 2023 16:34 UTC
55 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Re­cov­er­ing from Rejection

Aaron Gertler 🔸3 Jul 2023 9:42 UTC
181 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

I am un­able to get any AI safety re­lated fel­low­ships or in­tern­ships.

Aavishkar11 Mar 2024 5:00 UTC
5 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

My cir­cuitous, undi­rected path to an EA job

Seth Ariel Green 🔸6 Jul 2024 12:35 UTC
55 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

The Ap­pli­ca­tion is not the Applicant

JJ Hepburn17 Jan 2022 8:10 UTC
98 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Hiring: The Ig­nored Re­source of Re­jected EA Job Candidates

RedTeamPseudonym30 Aug 2022 4:29 UTC
11 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

More EAs are un­der­uti­lized than you think

Peter Berggren🔸23 Sep 2025 21:18 UTC
27 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Case Study of EA Global Re­jec­tion + Crit­i­cisms/​Solutions

Constance Li23 Sep 2022 11:38 UTC
249 points
158 comments23 min readEA link

Things I tell my­self to be more agentic

DMMF28 Apr 2024 14:44 UTC
14 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(danfrank.ca)

Dis­patches from the job hunt

SiobhanBall21 Jul 2025 11:44 UTC
28 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

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

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

From Lay­off to Co-found­ing in a Breath­tak­ing Two Months

Harry Luk26 Sep 2023 7:35 UTC
44 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

Soli­dar­ity for those Re­jected from EA Global

Wil Perkins8 Feb 2023 15:14 UTC
92 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

EA re­cruit­ment: less effec­tive than gov­ern­ment?

AnotherEAJobSeeker1 Nov 2025 20:31 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Three things I learnt ap­ply­ing for (Oper­a­tions) roles in the EA space

Dim Sum23 Feb 2026 17:01 UTC
17 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Is EA still ‘tal­ent-con­strained’?

SiobhanBall14 Jul 2025 8:09 UTC
164 points
59 comments1 min readEA link

After one year of ap­ply­ing for EA jobs: It is re­ally, re­ally hard to get hired by an EA organisation

EA applicant26 Feb 2019 5:53 UTC
421 points
184 comments4 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on ap­pli­ca­tions, re­jec­tions and feedback

Linda Linsefors28 Mar 2023 18:13 UTC
29 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Strug­gling to Tran­si­tion into an EA-Aligned Job — Seek­ing Advice

Taylor Grogan29 Sep 2025 0:41 UTC
19 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing: On Underutilization

Peter Berggren🔸18 Sep 2025 15:23 UTC
31 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
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