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I recently took part in the CEA Career Bootcamp, which has a resources library. Here are the articles, videos, and tools referenced across the four days of the bootcamp.
Opportunities & jobs
80,000 Hours job board: Curated list of high-impact job opportunities across cause areas, maintained by 80,000 Hours.
80,000 Hours job board — operations roles: Job board filtered to show operations and management roles at high-impact organisations.
Probably Good job board: Broad listing of impactful job opportunities, cause-neutral and covering multiple sectors.
Probably Good job board — operations roles: Probably Good job board filtered to operations roles; currently 34% of listings.
Animal Advocacy Careers job board: Job listings focused on farmed animal welfare, wild animal welfare, and related cause areas.
Alt Protein job board: Specialist job board for roles in the alternative protein and cultivated meat industries.
EA Opportunities board: Fellowships, training programmes, events, and funding opportunities within the effective altruism community.
80,000 Hours fellowships list: Curated database of fellowships and structured programmes for building expertise in impact areas.
AI Safety Support: opportunities directory: Comprehensive directory of AI safety roles, fellowships, research programmes, and entry points.
Animal advocacy volunteer opportunities: List of volunteering roles with animal welfare organisations to build experience and test fit.
EA Global conferences: EA Global and EAGx regional conferences — major events for networking, exploring organisations, and career conversations.
Giving What We Can pledge: Platform for publicly committing to donate a percentage of income to highly effective charities.
Career profiles
80,000 Hours career profiles: In-depth reviews of high-impact career paths — including expected impact, requirements, and how to enter each field.
80,000 Hours: research management career profile: Career profile covering research management roles at impactful organisations and how to build towards them.
80,000 Hours: founding impactful organisations: Profile of the path of starting new organisations to address pressing problems, including considerations and typical routes in.
Probably Good career profiles: Cause-neutral career profiles covering a wide range of impactful roles and sectors.
Probably Good: operations career profile: Probably Good’s overview of operations careers and their importance in high-impact organisations.
Probably Good: people management career profile: Career profile on people management and leadership roles in impact-focused organisations.
Animal Advocacy Careers: career profiles: Career guides and profiles specific to animal welfare and advocacy roles.
Animal Advocacy Careers: career path guides: Step-by-step guides to entering different career paths within the animal advocacy sector.
Animal Advocacy Careers: management & leadership guide: Guide to management and leadership careers in the animal advocacy sector.
80,000 Hours: operations management career profile: Deep-dive into operations management as a high-impact career path, including what the work involves and how to enter it.
80,000 Hours: organisation-building skills: Overview of skills involved in building effective organisations and why they are valuable for high-impact work.
80,000 Hours: problem profiles list: Comprehensive list of cause areas 80,000 Hours considers most pressing, with evidence and career implications for each.
Cause areas
Introduction to effective altruism: Clear overview of the core ideas behind effective altruism: using evidence and reason to do the most good.
Jamie Harris: how anyone can do 10x more good (video): Talk on how better career choices grounded in effective altruism principles can multiply your impact dramatically.
GiveWell: Giving 101 guide: Introduction to evidence-based giving and how to identify interventions with strong evidence of impact.
Ambitious Impact: the importance of evidence in cause selection: Guide on why rigorous evidence should drive decisions about which causes and interventions to support.
Giving What We Can: how big is the difference between charities?: Evidence that some charities are dramatically more effective than others, motivating careful cause selection.
80,000 Hours: factory farming problem profile: Assessment of factory farming as a pressing global problem affecting billions of animals annually.
Animal Charity Evaluators: why farmed animals?: Explanation of why farmed animal welfare is a significant and tractable cause area.
Animal Charity Evaluators: why wild animals?: Case for why wild animal welfare is an often-overlooked but important cause area.
The importance of artificial sentience: EA Forum post exploring whether future AI systems might be moral patients and why this might matter.
“What We Owe the Future” — chapter 1: Opening chapter making the case that future generations matter morally and that we can shape the long-term future.
Our World in Data: the future is vast: Perspective on how many more people may live in the future than today, and what this implies for prioritisation.
80,000 Hours: should you work on AI risks?: Assessment of whether working on transformative AI risks is one of the most important things you could do with your career.
Holden Karnofsky: the most important century: Argument that this century may be uniquely important due to the potential development of transformative AI.
Career frameworks
Why impact potential can vary 10–100x across career paths: Document explaining the evidence that the difference in impact between career paths can be enormous.
The ITN framework for cause prioritisation: Overview of the Importance, Neglectedness, Tractability framework for comparing and selecting cause areas.
ITN framework introduction (short video): Short video introduction to using the Importance, Neglectedness, Tractability framework to evaluate problems.
80,000 Hours: ITN framework — full guide: 80,000 Hours’ comprehensive written guide to the ITN framework and how to apply it to cause prioritisation.
Cause prioritisation worksheet: Template for systematically evaluating and comparing pressing problems using structured analysis.
Review of ITN critiques: Balanced discussion of weaknesses and limitations in the ITN framework as a decision-making tool.
Weighted factor models: how to use a spreadsheet to make good career decisions: Guide to building weighted decision matrices in spreadsheets, with five worked examples for career choices.
Weighted factor model walkthrough (video): Video demonstration of how to build and use a weighted factor model to compare career options.
Joey Savoie: how to compare 40 careers using a weighted factor model: Real example of applying a weighted factor model to systematically compare dozens of career options.
80,000 Hours: how to identify your most important career criteria: Guidance on surfacing what you actually care about in a career before building a decision framework.
Probably Good: SELF framework for evaluating career options: Guide to the SELF framework (Significance, Efficacy, Leverage, Fit) for systematically comparing career paths.
SELF framework walkthrough (video): Video walkthrough of the Probably Good SELF framework for evaluating and comparing career options.
80,000 Hours: think like a scientist about career fit: Framework for testing career hypotheses through low-cost experiments rather than committing based on speculation.
SHOW framework: shaping your talent for direct work: Framework for deliberately developing your skills and profile to move toward high-impact direct roles.
How to write SMART goals: Framework for setting Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound goals.
Applications & interviews
80,000 Hours: how to prepare for interviews
Practical guide to interview preparation, including how to craft compelling, evidence-based pitches of your strengths.
Probably Good: how to write a strong resume
Guide to crafting resumes that highlight achievements and impact rather than just listing responsibilities.
How to write a strong resume (video)
Video version of Probably Good’s guide to writing effective resumes for impact-focused roles.
Probably Good: how to answer job application questions
Guidance on structuring answers to application questions to clearly show your fit and potential impact.
Open Philanthropy: our approach to recruiting
Inside view of how Open Philanthropy evaluates candidates, useful for understanding what top EA employers look for.
Tips from an EA recruiter at Ambitious Impact
First-hand recruiter perspective on how to apply effectively to EA organisations and common mistakes to avoid.
80,000 Hours: how to convert interviews into offers
Guidance on how to perform well in interviews and increase your conversion rate from interview to offer.
Networking
EA organisations and initiatives map
Visual mindmap of EA-relevant organisations and initiatives for discovering where your skills could apply.
How unofficial work gets you hired
How demonstrating value through trial projects and informal contributions leads to job offers at EA organisations.
Directory of local effective altruism groups worldwide for staying connected with like-minded people.
Courses & learning
Holden Karnofsky: learn by writing
Why writing about what you’re learning accelerates understanding and helps you contribute to conversations in your field.
The case for time-capping your work (video)
Video on why limiting time on tasks leads to better outcomes and prevents perfectionism from blocking progress.
How busy people can build context for high-impact causes (video)
Practical strategies for learning about cause areas and EA organisations even while working full-time.
Why experienced professionals fail to land high-impact roles
Analysis of why talented professionals often struggle to transition into EA roles despite their expertise, and what to do about it.
Why experienced professionals fail to land high-impact roles (video)
Video version of the post on barriers professionals face when pivoting to impact-focused roles.
Learning plan template for building cause expertise
Template for creating a structured, personalised learning plan to build expertise in a cause area.
Structured eight-week course covering the core concepts and frameworks of effective altruism.
Advanced programme from CEA for deeper engagement with cause prioritisation, ethics, and EA strategy.
BlueDot Impact: AGI strategy course
Course on the strategic landscape around advanced AI development — pre-approved for bootcamp participants.
BlueDot Impact: AI governance course
Course on AI governance and policy, covering how governments and institutions are responding to AI development.
BlueDot Impact: technical AI safety course
Introduction to technical approaches to AI alignment and safety research.
Animal Advocacy Careers online course
Course covering how to build an effective career in animal advocacy, including cause prioritisation and role types.
Fellowships focused on animal welfare strategy and advocacy, particularly around AI and future sentient beings.
BlueDot Impact: biosecurity course
Course on biosecurity risks, policy responses, and career opportunities in pandemic preparedness.
Self-assessment
80,000 Hours: exercises to identify your personal strengths
Exercises to help you identify, articulate, and choose which strengths to highlight in career materials.
80,000 Hours: lists of personal strengths to review
Curated lists of strengths relevant to high-impact work, with prompts to identify which apply to you.
80,000 Hours: skills valued in high-impact careers
Comprehensive list of skills that are most valuable across different types of high-impact work.
Mindset & productivity
Our World in Data: the world is awful, much better, and can be much better: Evidence-based article holding three truths in tension: global suffering is real, progress is real, and more is possible.
Murphyjitsu: planning for what could go wrong: Pre-mortem technique for identifying the most likely reasons a plan could fail and defending against them in advance.
How to have an impact when the job market is not cooperating: Laura Gonzalez’s guide on alternative paths to high impact when traditional job opportunities are scarce.
How to have an impact when the job market is not cooperating (video): Video version of Laura Gonzalez’s guide on maintaining impact despite job market challenges.
Julia Galef: why scout mindset is crucial to good judgment: Explanation of how seeking truth rather than defending existing beliefs leads to better career and cause-area decisions.
Harvard Business Review: what a growth mindset actually means: Clarifies the evidence behind growth mindset and what it means in practice for developing new skills.
Radical Candor: the basics in 6 minutes: Introduction to radical candor as a framework for giving and receiving honest, caring feedback.
Rejection thread: stories and tips: Community-sourced stories and practical advice for handling repeated rejections in impact-focused job searches.
Aaron Gertler: recovering from rejection: Strategies for processing rejection emotionally and practically, and how to use it to improve future applications.
EA Forum: resources on imposter syndrome: Curated posts and resources on managing imposter syndrome when pursuing high-impact roles.
Never Search Alone: job search councils: Peer accountability groups where job seekers support each other through the application process.
Career advising
CEA introduction request form (priority participants only): Request that CEA staff introduce you to particular types of people — e.g. for advice, leads, or feedback on your plans.
80,000 Hours: apply for 1:1 advising: Apply for free personalised career advising from 80,000 Hours, focused on AI risk, biosecurity, and longtermism.
Probably Good: apply for career advising: Free cause-neutral career advising from Probably Good, covering a broad range of impactful career paths.
Animal Advocacy Careers: career coaching: Personalised career coaching focused on animal welfare roles and how to enter the animal advocacy sector.
Successif: apply for AI safety / governance advising: Advising service specialising in AI safety and governance careers — bootcamp participants are automatically accepted.
Stay informed
EA Newsletter: Regular newsletter from the Centre for Effective Altruism covering news, opportunities, and updates in EA.
80,000 Hours Newsletter: Newsletter from 80,000 Hours with career advice, research updates, and curated reading on high-impact work.
Open Philanthropy Animal Welfare Newsletter: Newsletter from Open Philanthropy covering research and updates in farm animal welfare.
Transformer Newsletter: Newsletter tracking key developments in AI and large language model research.
80,000 Hours Podcast: Long-form interviews with researchers, practitioners, and thinkers working on the world’s most pressing problems.
Hear This Idea Podcast: Podcast exploring ideas and the people shaping global priorities, with a focus on effective altruism and EA-adjacent thinking.
Templates & examples
Example bootcamp baseline — Jamie Harris: Completed example of the bootcamp baseline document showing one way to structure achievements and plans.
Specific opportunities to pursue — tracking spreadsheet: Template spreadsheet for tracking and prioritising specific job opportunities and organisations you’re considering.
Career options comparison spreadsheet (bootcamp alumna template): Spreadsheet template created by a bootcamp alumna for comparing and weighting career options.
Career decision examples — Jamie Harris (weighted factor models): Real example spreadsheets from Jamie Harris showing multiple approaches to comparing career options.
Career options ideation spreadsheet: Template for systematically brainstorming and exploring new career directions using different analytical frameworks.
Example CV/resume — Jamie Harris: Sample resume from Jamie Harris illustrating how to highlight achievements and skills for impact-focused roles.
Example networking aide document — Jamie Harris: Example of a one-page “networking aide” document used to introduce yourself and your goals when seeking connections.
“Aaron for hire” — example networking aide: Another example networking aide document showing a different style for positioning yourself for opportunities.
Post-bootcamp accountability check-in templates: Templates for structuring regular accountability check-ins with a partner after bootcamp ends.