Potential Products Summary Table

Research ApproachProduct CategoryProductFinal Product(s)Research MethodsNotes
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Possible downsides: 80K’s career guide, arguably the best sell for this advice, is out of date and they aren’t going to update.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.