Summary

Many engaged EAs, in particular EAs living outside of the UK and US, seem to struggle to identify high impact job opportunities in their location.
I’m sharing the process EA Sweden used to research local high impact opportunities available to EAs in Sweden. My intent with this post is to share an example as well as lessons learned, and encourage more EAs to investigate local opportunities.
This post outlines one part of the process of creating a career plan; it doesn’t describe the full process. For more information about the rest of the career planning process, please see 80,000 Hours and Probably Good.

Background

I’m the executive director of Effective Altruism Sweden. A large part of my role involves providing career advice to EAs in Sweden and hosting career planning workshops. I’ve also worked part-time for 80,000 Hours and CEA.

Why am I writing this?
A bottleneck I and other community builders have noticed is the lack of advice available for high impact job opportunities outside of the US and UK. Using the EA Survey as an indicator, EAs living outside of the US and UK make up around 40% of highly engaged EAs. Based on my personal experience and speaking with other community builders, it seems lots of engaged EAs outside of the US and UK are struggling to identify promising career opportunities in the place they live.

In EA Sweden, we decided to investigate what high impact career opportunities exist locally, to better advise EAs wanting to stay in Sweden. This post describes the process we used. I hope that it can act as inspiration for other groups as well as individuals conducting independent investigations into local career opportunities. See the section on tips for individuals to adapt the process below.

Caveats

This post is intended to share the process used by EA Sweden and lessons learned while doing this research. It is not a normative template for how similar research ought to be done.
We decided to use the process described in this post after benchmarking and testing out two different approaches. It isn't necessarily the best process, and we welcome suggestions for other ways of identifying high impact opportunities in the comments below. You can also email me at gabriella@effektivaltruism.org.
It’s hard to find high impact opportunities. Most of the roles and organizations we found were estimated to be medium impact oppor

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