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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: 80,000 Hours is hiring!, published by Michelle Hutchinson on January 20, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. My team at 80,000 Hours is hiring for advisors. In the past I've found this a difficult role to hire for, because it isn't at traditional path for people to take. I love the role though: It's just lovely to spend every day talking to smart, like minded people and helping them problem solve about how to really do the most good with their career. I enjoy the breadth of the problems I get to think about, and that it keeps me constantly wanting to learn more about all the possible ways of having an impact and how to compare between them. If you think you might enjoy that too, please consider applying to work with me! If you're interested, there are more details below. Please do comment or DM me if you have questions about the role or whether you might be suitable for it. Our advisors talk one-on-one to talented and altruistic applicants in order to help them find the highest impact career they can. We’ve found that experience with coaching is not necessary – everything from management consulting to global priorities research has helped someone be a good fit. London-based role with starting salary around £65,000. Please apply here by February 20th. 80,000 Hours’ mission The EA community is growing in reach and now includes funding bodies with over $40 billion to allocate in total. How to turn those resources into long-term impact is the problem 80,000 Hours is trying to solve. We’ve had over 8 million visitors to our website, and more than 3,000 people have now told us that they’ve significantly changed their career plans due to our work. 80,000 Hours is the largest single source of people getting involved in the effective altruism community, according to the most recent EA Survey. The 1on1 team The 1on1 team at 80,000 Hours takes people from “interested in the ideas and want to help” to “actually working to solve pressing world problems.” For example, Sophie Rose applied for advising in 2019. I chatted to her and helped her decide to focus on biosecurity and start working in the field. She co-founded One Day Sooner and is now working at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security – doing research to help prevent catastrophic pandemics. In 2021 we had more than 2,000 applications to speak with us from talented and altruistic people who aren’t sure how to use their skills to help the world. Some of the most important ways our conversations help people increase their impact are: Introductions to experts in relevant fields, hiring managers and other members of the EA community. Talking through and reframing decisions in order to pin down people’s key uncertainties. Suggesting new ideas — whether that’s specific jobs, new paths to explore, or ways of getting funding. We also help with recruitment for high impact organisations, sending them lists of people we think might be a great fit for them. While our impact per call is high, the world needs far more people in total working on the world’s most pressing problems. We therefore want to greatly increase the number of calls we have by doubling our team of advisors over the next year. Our aim is to build out an excellent system for finding the best candidates for the most impactful jobs as they are created. What we’re looking for It’s a great sign you’d enjoy being an 80,000 Hours advisor if you’ve enjoyed managing, mentoring or teaching. For example, Habiba Islam joined us from being a manager at the Future of Humanity Institute, Alex Lawsen was a Maths teacher, and Matt Reardon was previously a corporate lawyer. But it’s also particularly useful for us to have a broad range of experience on the team for comparing different types of roles, so we’re excited to hear about people with all kinds of backgrounds. The core o...