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TLDR: 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. The tone of this post is very informal as I am mostly copying and pasting it from my blog. It's for the admins to decide if that is OK, I hope it is.

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 a position that could be a perfect fit. I applied, and it was. The project was called Charity Entrepreneurship, and I worked on its communications, outreach, and recruitment for 6 years, as well as on its rebrand to Ambitious Impact. I currently work at Rethink Priorities and the EA Animal Welfare Fund, so as you can see, I am pretty lucky to be working on amazing, impact-focused projects, and I hope this trajectory will continue.

As someone responsible for EA talent outreach for a few years, I spoke with many individuals at EAG conferences about their career [...]

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Outline:

(01:39) Value-aligment

(03:31) Impact focus

(08:29) Flexibility

(10:27) Being useful

(12:57) Luck

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First published:
February 15th, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sGobtEGubAmgvfgyQ/how-to-get-a-job-in-ea-unpractical-guide-to-an-impact-useful

Linkpost URL:
https://ulazarosa.substack.com/p/how-to-get-a-job-in-ea

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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