Research Approach | Product Category | Product | Final Product(s) | Research Methods | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Self-help research | Advice for Group Organizers | Career Events | 1-on-1s, Targeted Workshops by subgroup, Improving how to do your own career research | ||
Self-help research | Advice for Group Organizers | Networks | Building/ Expanding/Using Networks | Best ways to help networking within the community - i.e. creating directories, subgroups, having how-to events on networking Expanding EA networks outside of EA Creating relationships with people working at promising local organisations | |
Self-help research | Advice for Group Organizers, Resource Creation | Partnering with Career Centers | Cold-calling emails, best practices and tips, introducing 80K resources. Active monitoring + encouragement | Getting local and national groups to build strong relationships with university career centers and provide free coaching and other services to interested students. Combination of headhunting and movement building. Hopefully career centers are incentivised to pawn off students to these groups for 1-1s etc. | Possible downsides: 80K’s career guide, arguably the best sell for this advice, is out of date and they aren’t going to update. It’s also location-specific |
Process-oriented research | Guides and Resources | Industry/Field/Career Profiles | Regional versions of existing 80K profiles and articles. | Regional, or for understudied topics that certain localities have a comparative advantage in. See Lauro Langosco’s AI Policy Careers in the EU. | |
Process-oriented research | Guides and Resources | Industry/Field/Career Wiki | Crowd- sourced semi-public Careers Wiki. More like annotated bibliography than guide. | This is related to Improving how to do your own career research above. | |
Job/Org Research | Semi-public Job/Organization boards | Crowd- sourced job board database | Crowd- sourced job board database | For more details, see the full proposal | |
Job/Org Research | Semi-public Job/Organization boards | Regional/local curated job boards | Regional/local curated job boards, Lists of curated organisations, updating the eawork.club with new organisations | ||
Talent Sourcing | Isn’t neglected so we haven’t looked closely into this. |