For posts that offer career advising, discuss better (and worse) types of career advising, etc.
Types of career advice research
One proposed typology of research on career advice distinguishes between career choice research (“Which career paths are especially impactful?”), career success research (“What strategies are best for succeeding in a career?”), and career intervention research (“What can be done to help people pursue impactful careers?”). Within career success research, a further distinction may be drawn between generic (or movement-level) and specific (or individual-level) research, depending on whether the research aims to identify the most impactful careers in general or whether it seeks to determine whether a career is a good fit for a particular person or group of people.[1][2]
Organizations within the effective altruism community providing career advice include 80,000 Hours, Animal Advocacy Careers and Probably Good.
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80,000 Hours | Animal Advocacy Careers | building effective altruism | career choice | career framework | intervention evaluation | Probably Good
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Agarwalla, Vaidehi (2021) What is meta effective altruism?, Effective Altruism Forum, June 2.
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Aird, Michael (2021) Comment on ‘What is meta Effective Altruism?’, Effective Altruism Forum, June 12.
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It may be useful for this entry to draw on the following passage from What is meta Effective Altruism? (and my commentary on it):
My commentary on that:
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Okay, nine months later, I edited the article to incorporate this suggestion. Not so fast-moving after all. 😛
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Wishlist for some heroic editor:
Tag a bunch of posts
Expand the entry to say brief things about things like:
How useful do various forms of career advising tend to be?
What are best practices for career advising?
What orgs work in that space?
E.g., 80k, Animal Advocacy Careers, Probably Good, presumably some others
How can one test fit for or build career capital in career advising?
Add this entry to the Related entries section for some other entries (e.g., 80,000 Hours), and maybe add an internal link to it in the bodies of those entries too
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As a meta note, I’ve created the flags
TODO: add to other Related entriesandTODO: add internal links to this entryso that one can also use the flag system for the two types of tasks you describe in your final bullet point. I will also add descriptions for each of the flags so that their meaning is clearer.1 vote
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Good thinking, thanks!
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Possible alternative names:
career coaching
Seems slightly worse to me, since it seems a less intuitive name for this thing
career advice
This seems worse to me; it seems like it’d make the distinction between this and the entry on career choice less clear
something else?