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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