Interview, Podcast
What people most often ask 80,000 Hours' career advisors | Michelle Hutchinson (2020)
- The podcast will feature an unusually in-depth conversation addressing a major global problem, with content covering career advice deviations, risk management, and specific fit criteria for the advising program.
- Listeners are advised to apply to more roles than currently considered, as the associated job board lists over 60 biosecurity and pandemic preparedness opportunities and more than 500 total vacancies.
- The team plans to hire a new member for the advising team early next year.
- Current applicant-to-conversation ratios are expected to range from one in ten to one in five, with anticipated satisfaction scores of 65% of respondents rating sessions six or seven out of seven.
- Advising value is predicted to typically manifest through small adjustments to existing plans rather than significant strategic pivots.
- Specific value from the advice is expected to be lower for individuals locationally constrained outside the San Francisco Bay Area, Washington DC, or the London-Oxford cluster compared to those in those hubs.
- The speaker notes they will have a baby in two weeks and anticipates returning to work after an unspecified maternity leave duration, utilizing time available during breastfeeding or sleep intervals for logistical tasks.
- Despite expecting to become a different person after becoming a parent, the speaker predicts they will continue to enjoy their job based on conversations with similar mothers.
- The speaker plans to reveal the name of their child in an outro of a future episode.
- Potential applicants fitting the program are directed to learn more and join a waitlist at 80000hours.org/advising.