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I know 80K is based in the UK... should US citizens apply? Also, what kind of applicant field are you looking at right now?
BTW, might be worthwhile to mention the other EA organizations that happen to be recruiting right now.
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Should you work at 80,000 Hours?
Yeah, US citizens are very welcome to apply. We can fairly easily hire US citizens for internships. For permanent paid roles my understanding is that it's a bit more complicated, but definitely possible - so it just means the application will be more competitive (because we may have to pay for visas etc).
Can you clarify what exactly you mean by "what kind of applicant field are you looking at?"
You're right, I should have put in a link to the GWWC and EEA positions. Will add.
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Should you work at 80,000 Hours?
You should also mention that you're currently sharing office space with FHI, which many LWers would think is pretty attractive.
Should you work at 80,000 Hours?
The purpose of this post is to discuss some considerations relevant to whether it is high impact for you as an individual to work for 80,000 Hours.
This post will be in the format of an interview with Ben Todd, co-founder and executive director of 80,000 Hours, and thus best placed to begin a discussion about who should work for 80k. In what follows, we’ll cover:
- If you want to support 80k, whether you should work for 80k or fund 80k. This involves some discussion of whether to earn to give or to work directly, adding to the discussion elsewhere on LW.
- What skills and characteristics are most valuable to 80k
- Whether working at 80k is likely to help your future career prospects
- How working at 80k might compare to some alternatives: other EA organisations and professional jobs
- Who probably shouldn’t work for 80k
What this post won’t cover:
- Whether 80k itself is high impact. This has already been discussed at length on LW here and here.
- Whether you’d enjoy working at 80k. We’ve already posted on our blog about why we think it’s good to work at 80k.
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Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012)
Hi, I'm Jess. I've just graduated from Oxford with a masters degree in Mathematics and Philosophy. I'm trying to decide what to do next with my life, and graduate study in cognitive science is currently top of my list. What I'm really interested in is the application of research in human rationality, decision making and its limitations to wider issues in society, public policy etc.
I'm taking some time to challenge my intuition that I want to go into research, though, as I'm slightly concerned that I'm taking the most obvious option not knowing what else to do. My methods for doing this at the moment are a) trying to think about reasons it might not be the best option (a "consider the opposite" type approach) and b) initiating conversations with as many people as possible doing things that interest me, and getting some work experience in different areas this year, to broaden my limited perspective. Any better/additional suggestions are more than welcome!
I'm about to start an internship with 80000 hours, doing a project on the role of cognitive bias in career choice. The aim is to collect together the existing research on biases and mitigation techniques and apply it in a practical and accessible way, identifying the biases that most commonly affect career choice and providing useful strategies for avoiding them. I was wondering if anyone here has a summary of the existing literature on cognitive bias mitigation, or any recommendations of particularly useful/important research? Equally if anyone has spent much time thinking about this, I'd love to hear about it.
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By "what kind of applicant field are you looking at?" I mean do you guys have a good number of relatively strong applicants already.
I'm not sure there's much I can say on this I'm afraid: I'm not in charge of receiving and scoring applications so I don't actually know at this stage (and even if I was I'm not sure it would be appropriate for me to post a judgement on here)
In general I'd just reiterate the point though that we do find it relatively difficult to find good people, so if you think you might fit what we're looking for, it's definitely worth applying.