Congrats on taking the pledge Ondřej!

Glad you're restarting the group! Good luck Hazem!

Just quickly noting the Forum hosted two AMAs recently that might be helpful to browse through (or still engage with!). One was with career advisors, one with recruiters. 

Good luck with your job search Taylor and thank you for trying to find an impactful job and for posting here asking for advice!

It might be worth also posting this on the EA Group Organizer Slack! See here :)

Thanks for this write-up and making some cool grants! In particular I'm excited to see Charity Navigator move in an EA direction - thanks for helping make that possible :)

Congrats on landing a Bluebook position, that's so cool! Through the Impactful Policy Careers program I know some EA-aligned folks who'll also start the next round of Bluebook - happy to put you in touch :)

And happy my post was helpful!

Thanks for writing this! 

I wanted to add some personal observations, from interacting with a bunch of people around the School in person, attending some SMA events, and following them quite closely online:

• Many founders / early joiners of the organization are very sympathetic to EA ideas, and think hard about how to have the most impact
• Those who have entered something like the 'core' group more recently (e.g. fellows, new employees) seem to catch on to some key ideas, but not others. Specifically, I was surprised how much they care about donating effectively, but don't seem to have thought much about cause prioritization
• And finally, 'moral ambition' has entered mainstream discourse, but in return has become a bit of a watered-down catchphrase. I've heard it used to refer to vaguely do-goody things - nothing about the ITN/SSS framework, for example

I also think James from EA Netherlands left some useful thoughts here

Thanks for providing a bit of context on the ToC of the program / the case for working 'inside the system'! Sorry I didn't represent that as clearly in the post

Thanks, those are helpful thoughts! Just to clarify: my excitement about APA roles shouldn't be read to mean that I think other roles are likely less impactful. It's super hard to assess it from the outside!

• That hypothesis for the Commission could most certaintly be true. We talked to three EA-aligned folks in the Commission and I think all three of them had pretty different experiences, from "I don't think I've had any impact in my two years at the Commission" to someone who thought he'd influenced quite some things positively (I hope I'm not misrepresenting them)
• For think tank / NGO work specifically, I annoyingly got food poisining on the day where we had various experts from NGOs visit, so was unable to take their perspectives into account. I know some other people who were in the program are reading this - maybe they can share some thoughts on this!
• I'm pretty unsure about impact via Council or member states. I also didn't get much clarity on secondments. We didn't discuss them much because the process to be sent to Brussels by a member state is different in every country

You can maybe pull from this AMA Peter Singer did on the Forum; there's some unanswered questions there