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Back to Episodes“500k mid-career professionals want to do more good with their careers. Can we help them?” by Dom Jackman
Description
I'm Dom Jackman. I founded Escape the City in 2010 to help people leave corporate jobs and find work that matters. 16 years later, 500k+ professionals have used the platform - mostly people 5-15 years into careers at places like McKinsey, Deloitte, Google, the big banks - who feel a growing gap between what they do all day and what they actually care about.
I'm not from the EA community. I'm writing this because I think there's a real overlap between the people I work with and what the EA talent ecosystem actually needs. I want to test that before investing serious time in it.
What I've noticed
Reading through talent discussions on this forum, there's a consistent theme: the pipeline is strongest for early-career people. 80,000 Hours does great work for students and recent grads. Probably Good provides broad guidance. BlueDot, MATS, Talos build skills for specific cause areas.
But mid-career professionals with real commercial experience keep coming up as underserved. The "Gaps and opportunities in the EA talent & recruiting landscape" post nails it: these people "don't have 'EA capital,' may be poorly networked and might feel alienated by current messaging." The post calls for "custom entry [...]
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Outline:
(00:51) What Ive noticed
(01:40) What I see every day
(02:28) What Im thinking about building
(03:24) Honest questions
(04:39) Not looking for funding
(04:58) Artifacts
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First published:
February 11th, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.