How to get a job in Effective Altruism - by Ula Zarosa

Unpractical guide to an impact-useful mindset

Me at EAG London 2023 This is my 8th year as a member of the Effective Altruism community, and I thought I would share some observations on building a mindset that can help others get jobs at high-impact organizations. I will try to do this, while not sounding pretentious, and if I do, please forgive me, I do it to signal my competence to the few people who are not my immediate family and miraculously found this post :) My story with working in EA-aligned organizations starts in 2018, when a friend of mine mentioned that some weird project she’d been working on in Vancouver was hiring for…

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• Deference Culture in EA — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• Notes on Effective Altruismmichaelnotebook.com
• Your Goal Isn’t Really to Get a Jobthatvastvariety.substack.com
• Your Goal Isn’t Really to Get a Jobsubstack.com
• I graduated from Effective Altruismsubstack.com
• Effective altruism in the garden of ends — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• Doing EA Better — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• How to become a better applicant in one week80000hours.substack.com
• [UPDATE] From Comfort Zone to Frontiers of Impact: Pursuing A Late-Career Shift to Existential Risk Reduction — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• AGI safety career advice — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• Nailing the basics – Theories of change — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• stop trying to be a "good person"substack.com