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Ca­reer Con­ver­sa­tions Week (2025)

TagLast edit: 28 Jul 2025 11:26 UTC by Dane Valerie

Career Conversations Week ran from July 21–27 on the EA Forum. It’s a themed week encouraging career-related posts and quick takes, with a focus on sharing hard-to-access knowledge, advice, and reflections on impactful career paths.

The week featured:

This wasn’t a job fair—it’s a chance to make career thinking more legible and collaborative. If you’ve ever wondered what a grantmaker actually does, what post-university paths in AI safety look like, or how to break into nonprofit entrepreneurship, this is the week to ask or answer.

Read more in the announcement post.

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From a Side Pro­ject to a Funded Or­gani­sa­tion: My Story and What I’ve Learned [EAGx Vir­tual 2024 Keynote]

SofiaBalderson21 Jul 2025 11:34 UTC
41 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

About my Job: Re­search Manager

Cameron Holmes19 Dec 2025 15:41 UTC
30 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Build­ing EA Pro­jects While Work­ing an Un­re­lated Full-Time Job

Brad West🔸23 Jul 2025 15:27 UTC
86 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

AMA: Ask Ca­reer Ad­vi­sors Anything

Toby Tremlett🔹21 Jul 2025 8:02 UTC
72 points
138 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­pand­ing EA’s AI Builder Com­mu­nity—Writ­ing about my job

Alejandro Acelas 🔸21 Jul 2025 8:22 UTC
26 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

All About Oper­a­tions & Careers

Deena Englander23 Jul 2025 15:37 UTC
25 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

Dis­patches from the job hunt

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

Writ­ing about my job: Pro­gram Director

G_Klw23 Jul 2025 17:31 UTC
34 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

6 years of build­ing an EA-al­igned ca­reer from an LMIC

Rika Gabriel28 Jul 2025 5:44 UTC
278 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

We need EA peo­ple work­ing for non-EA orgs

Dave Cortright 🔸22 Jul 2025 18:13 UTC
52 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Is EA still ‘tal­ent-con­strained’?

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

Ca­reer Con­ver­sa­tions Week: July 21-27

Toby Tremlett🔹8 Jul 2025 9:52 UTC
60 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

My AI safety in­de­pen­dent re­search en­g­ineer path so far

Artyom K25 Jul 2025 8:49 UTC
16 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

From rave web­sites to AI risk: 30 years of ca­reer lessons

Patrick Gruban 🔸21 Jul 2025 7:25 UTC
62 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Grate­ful for Job Choice

Denkenberger🔸21 Jul 2025 1:42 UTC
127 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

De­bate: Are enough EAs earn­ing to give?

Toby Tremlett🔹23 Jul 2025 13:57 UTC
79 points
42 comments1 min readEA link

Ca­reer Con­ver­sa­tions: High­lights and Retrospective

Toby Tremlett🔹29 Jul 2025 8:10 UTC
34 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

A re­flec­tion: I worked too much

Lucas Lewit-Mendes22 Jul 2025 12:16 UTC
62 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

My im­pact-fo­cused ca­reer: you can cre­ate your own roles (?)

Jamie_Harris26 Jul 2025 15:45 UTC
38 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Who’s hiring?

DPiepgrass24 Jul 2025 0:43 UTC
19 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Prov­i­dence or fate? I some­times pinch my­self

NickLaing28 Jul 2025 19:51 UTC
95 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

From Google to co-found­ing a global health char­ity: Mid-ca­reer tran­si­tions with Mar­tyn James

Fran24 Jul 2025 11:22 UTC
48 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

EA Ger­many’s Ca­reer Plan­ning Programme

Milena Canzler🔸21 Jul 2025 14:11 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Ex­ec­u­tive Direc­tor of a small in­ter­na­tional nonprofit

SofiaBalderson23 Jul 2025 10:52 UTC
42 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

15 Un­con­ven­tional Ways I Used My Gen­er­al­ist Back­ground to Tran­si­tion into a High-Im­pact Ca­reer: My jour­ney from School Prin­ci­pal to AI Safety Advisor

Moneer19 Aug 2025 10:34 UTC
44 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Tech to AI safety men­tor­ship: Mid-ca­reer tran­si­tions with Cameron Holmes

Fran23 Jul 2025 16:34 UTC
20 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ten AI safety pro­jects I’d like peo­ple to work on

JulianHazell24 Jul 2025 15:32 UTC
52 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

Pri­vate equity to shrimp welfare: Mid-ca­reer tran­si­tions in EA with An­drés Jiménez Zorrilla

Fran21 Jul 2025 10:59 UTC
66 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Con­tent Strate­gist @ CEA

Toby Tremlett🔹23 Jul 2025 10:40 UTC
40 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Nav­i­gat­ing Early Ca­reer Choices in Alter­na­tive Proteins

Elif Özdemir28 Jul 2025 4:45 UTC
16 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Com­mu­nity Liaison

Charlotte Darnell28 Jul 2025 16:32 UTC
76 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Why You Should Build Your Own EA In­tern­ship Abroad

Annika Burman 🔸22 Jul 2025 20:33 UTC
177 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Challenges from Ca­reer Tran­si­tions and What To Ex­pect From Advising

ClaireB24 Jul 2025 13:22 UTC
26 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

AMA with re­cruiters at im­pact-fo­cused orgs

Calum22 Jul 2025 14:58 UTC
50 points
55 comments1 min readEA link

In AI Gover­nance, let the Non-EA World Train You First

Camille23 Jul 2025 17:46 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Oper­a­tions in AI Safety: A One-Year Per­spec­tive and Advice

mick24 Jul 2025 12:39 UTC
25 points
0 comments10 min readEA link
(mickzijdel.com)

Writ­ing about my job: re­search man­ager at the China Ve­gan Society

Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye 🔸24 Jul 2025 7:31 UTC
29 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

How I got a job at a farm an­i­mal welfare nonprofit

Drew Housman25 Jul 2025 22:11 UTC
30 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Reflect­ing On My Ca­reer Journey

Kevin Xia 🔸21 Jul 2025 15:51 UTC
70 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Brief ca­reer mus­ings: pro­grammes, re­source cre­ation and flow through effects

Lin BL27 Jul 2025 21:01 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
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