This post provides a summary mapping of the EA / EA-adjacent career advising ecosystem as well as a list of various career resources, developed by the Career Advising Meta Forum.
What is the Career Advising Meta Forum?
EA and EA-adjacent organisations offer, in aggregate, dozens of incredible resources and thousands of career advising sessions per a year.
However, in early 2025, we realised that there existed seemingly few collaborations across the career advising sector. In late spring 2025, we began a working group of EA and EA adjacent organisations offering career advice and advising services to advance cooperation and collaboration in this space.
So far the forum has met three times to discuss challenges and opportunities in the impact-focused career advising space. We have a Slack group and met in-person at EAG London 2025 (as well as a smaller meeting a month before at EAGxNordics). We expect to meet periodically in the future.
To date, the meetings have been attended by:
Career advisories: E.g. 80,000 Hours, Probably Good, Animal Advocacy Careers, etc.
Affinity groups and profession-focused groups: Consultants for Impact, High Impact Professionals, High Impact Medicine, Christians for Impact, etc.
City groups and national groups doing significant amounts of career advising: EA DC, EA Germany, etc.
If you qualify as an EA / EA-adjacent organisation offering 50+ career 1-on-1s per year, we welcome you to join! Please DM me or @JDBauman to be included.
EA Career Advising Ecosystem Mapping
How we made this list
At EAG London 2025, career advisors in attendance created an overview of career organizations, their respective comparative advantages to the EA movement, and other resources frequently referenced in career advising (e.g. Job boards, directories, fellowships).
Caveats: We don't expect this to serve as an authoritative or exhaustive list of every relevant organization or resource, but we hope this serves as a helpful mapping of the broader EA career advising space. We (@JDBauman and I) have also made some additions, with a round of edits. We encourage readers interested in career advising to also consult other excellent articles on this forum.
Organisations
80,000 Hours
Website: https://80000hours.org
Focus area: Transformative‑AI risk; also pandemics, animal welfare, and other top problems
Advising approach: Typically one call that nudges direction, lowers exploration friction, and signposts resources/introductions
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Global scale & reach; head‑hunting links; deep tech‑ & governance‑side AI knowledge
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 1,400–1,600
Probably Good
Website: https://probablygood.org
Focus area: Cross‑cause / principles‑first, with resources on many EA cause areas
Target groups: Early‑ to mid‑career professionals (and advanced students) seeking guidance or up‑skilling
Advising approach: Typically one 1:1 meeting + follow‑ups; experiments with workshops, high‑touch advising, head‑hunting, referrals
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Global, tools‑based, integrated services (workshops → advising → job board); support across causes & professions
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 500 (uncertain, scaling up)
Consultants for Impact
Website: https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/
Focus area: Cause‑diversified; some advisors specialise in GHD/GCR
Target groups: Current & former business consultants
Advising approach: Network‑based one‑ or two‑off calls with ongoing relationships; impact plans, exit strategies, hiring‑round support
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Private‑sector pathway knowledge; high professionalism; global consultant network; not formally EA‑affiliated
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 350–400
Magnify Mentoring
Website: https://www.magnifymentoring.org/
Focus area: Cause‑neutral
Target groups: People from under‑represented groups — especially women, non‑binary and trans people — already in or pursuing high‑impact careers
Advising approach: Six‑month mentorship with a mid‑senior professional
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Not specified
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 300 (in cohorts of 100 for each six‑month round)
Animal Advocacy Careers
Website: https://animaladvocacycareers.org/
Focus area: Farmed‑animal rights, welfare & advocacy
Target groups: Impact‑minded people from new graduates to seasoned professionals
Advising approach: 30–60 min 1:1 calls + email follow‑up; mentor connections; daily leverage of animal‑advocacy network
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Specialised farmed‑animal career advice, direct links to top orgs & rich in‑house materials (articles, course)
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 275–300
Successif
Website: https://www.successif.org/
Focus area: AI Safety (law/policy & technical)
Target groups: Mid‑career & senior professionals (≥ 5 years’ experience, typically 10+)
Advising approach: Multiple customised sessions throughout the whole transition period; strategic advice, hands‑on support, mental support, progress tracking, and confidence building
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Blend of AI‑safety expertise with professional coaching for experienced talent
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 300–400
EA Germany
Website: https://effektiveraltruismus.de/en/home-2/
Focus area: Generalist
Target groups: Students and Young Professionals who want to act on EA principles
Advising approach: One‑off & regular 1‑to‑1 meetings for the most promising candidates
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Networks and overview of opportunities in and around Germany
Number of yearly career advisees: >200
High Impact Professionals
Website: https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/
Focus area: Any high‑impact cause area
Target groups: Mid‑career & senior professionals
Advising approach: Impact Accelerator (cohort‑based) and Talent Directory
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Global cohort community; database of talent ready to pivot to high‑impact roles
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 120 in 2024; projected ≈ 210 in 2025
EA Norway
Website: https://www.meningsfylt.no/ (brand for career work)
Focus area: Generalist within top EA causes
Target groups: Students, early‑ & mid‑career professionals (22–37 yrs), plus interested seniors
Advising approach: 1:1 (digital & in‑person); workshops; employer contacts; job links; year‑end reflection; weekly Norwegian & international job boards
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Norwegian context, long‑term member processes, employer links, peer connections for projects
Number of yearly career advisees: 135 structured sessions + 40 short sessions (last year); ≈ 230 workshop participants; aiming 175 + 400 in 2025
EA DC
Website: https://www.effectivealtruismdc.org/
Focus area: Generalist across top EA cause areas
Target groups: EAs interested in US policy and/or based in Washington DC
Advising approach: Intro calls and connections to practitioners in each field
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Dense DC‑area network keen to onboard newcomers
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 150
EA Sweden
Website: https://www.effektivaltruism.org/en/
Focus area: Cause‑principled coaching across cause areas; strong local map of Swedish opportunities; large AI‑safety / governance network
Target groups: Coachees are ≈ 70 % women & non‑binary; tailored diversity coaching
Advising approach: Long‑term coaching (cause prioritisation, CV/cover‑letter feedback, mentor connections)
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Deep Swedish landscape knowledge plus AI‑safety contacts
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 110
Christians for Impact / EA for Christians
Website: www.christiansforimpact.org
Focus area: General EA cause areas; advice skews near‑termist
Target groups: Devout Christians in the US/UK (ages 18‑35) who want to make an impact
Advising approach: Single call → introductions to EA Christians; offer prayer; encourage the 10 % pledge; avoid “crazy‑train” topics (e.g., insect or AI sentience)
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Scriptural interpretation, prayer, and theological context; explicit focus on virtue & life balance; resonates with moderates / centre‑right conservatives; conference and community support for EA Christians
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 100
High Impact Medicine
Website: https://www.highimpactmedicine.org/
Focus area: Our focus is on health-related cause areas, including global health (broadly-defined), pandemic preparedness and biosecurity (GHPB).
Target groups: We work with medical students and doctors, from all parts of the world, who want to help more with the world’s most pressing problems, but are unsure of their best path forward.Advising approach: Our core online programs are the Career Planning Course (CPC) and One-to-One Mentoring (1:1 mentoring).
Comparative advantage to the EA movement:We offer a personalized, “medic-to-medic” approach, based on a deep understanding of medical careers and our knowledge and connections in GHPB, the EA movement, and the medical community.
Number of yearly career advisees: Estimated 80 (2025 transition period)
Effective Thesis
Website: https://www.effectivethesis.org/
Focus Area: Generalist - All cause areas
Target groups: Students at all levels (Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD) who want to utilise their thesis as a stepping stone towards a high-impact career
Advising approach: Fellowships and mentorship (Services are not purely career focused as they are combined with thesis/research support)
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Focused on high-impact research
Number of yearly advisees: Estimated 50-100
EA France
Website: http://www.altruismeefficacefrance.org
Focus area: Very generalist within top‑priority EA causes; principles‑first
Target groups: Anyone in France already engaged with EA content (from newcomers to experienced)
Advising approach: Content & fellowships; opinionated reviews of plans/Theories of Change; application help; redirect to French thematic experts
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: French‑language context and opportunities; small‑org “human” vibe
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 73 career conversations in 2024; ≈ 30 clear coachees
Effective Environmentalism
Website: https://www.effectiveenvironmentalism.org/
Focus area: Climate change, air pollution, ecosystems
Target groups: Climate professionals or anyone keen on EA & environment (all career stages)
Advising approach: Public resources (career guide, priority‑area articles) as “one‑stop shop”; connecting people to a wider effective environmentalism community.
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Cause‑specific depth on environment/climate often missing elsewhere
Number of yearly career advisees: Not yet clear (mile‑wide inch‑deep)
EA Switzerland
Website: https://www.effectivealtruism.ch/
Focus area: General, with strong AI‑safety focus (Zurich hotspot)
Target groups: People aged 20–40 aiming to act on EA principles
Advising approach: Mainly via “Impact Cohort 2025” programme
Comparative advantage to the EA movement: Quick local introductions to AI‑safety researchers; senior AI contacts in Zurich
Number of yearly career advisees: ≈ 15–30
Other Career Advisories
Organisations doing 1-1s around careers within or adjacent to the EA community
- Horizon’s info site for emerging tech policy careers
- X-risk (AI, bio, nuclear)
- Horizon’s info site for emerging tech policy careers
- X-risk (AI, bio, nuclear)
Effective Environmentalism career guide + resources page
- Explain EA career decision principles in the context of climate change/environment
Climate and environment
All EA France career resources
- EA-principles-first content and advice in French
- Impact-oriented career advising for people in Finland
- General
- Does career-related 1-1s
- General
- List of individuals and organisations providing AI Safety related career advice AI Safety
Job Boards
- List of social impact job boards
- Very broad, includes EA job boards and others
Christians for Impact Job Board
- ~200 openings listed
- Cause areas: Across CFI's top areas
- Listing of job opportunities in alt protein
- Cause areas: Animal welfare, Climate
- A curated list of publicly advertised vacancies that 80k thinks are particularly promising for impact, career capital or both.
- Cause areas: Across 80,000 Hours' top areas
- Jobs in tech that contribute to climate
- Cause areas: Climate change, Environmentalism
- Cause areas:
- Cause areas: any cause area
Consultants for Impact’s favorite 10 job boards (guide)
- 10 job boards (including several mentioned elsewhere on this list) tailored for impact‑oriented professionals
The Good Food Institute Alternative Protein Career Portal
- Listing of job opportunities in alt protein
- Cause areas: Animal welfare, Climate
EA Norway (Meningsfylt) LinkedIn
- Curated job boards published in EA Norway Career Slack and monthly newsletter.
- Across top areas
80,000 Hours maintained directory of fellowships
80,000 Hours maintained directory of part‑time courses
Consultants for Impact’s newsletters
- 1 × month brief + 2 × month Job Blast, each with 10 jobs hand‑picked for impact‑oriented consultants / professional generalists
High Impact Professionals newsletter
- Monthly job blast and resources for experienced professionals
- Any high impact cause area
- 500+ Jobs from YC organizations, great for building career capital
- Skill building
- Helping aspiring effective altruists skill‑build and find impactful positions.
Jobs in United Nations, NGO, European Union
- Global health and development
- Animal welfare, Climate
- Animal welfare, Climate
- UK and global startup roles, great for building career capital
- Skill building
- General, also some NZ jobs
- Animal welfare, environment
- Animal welfare, environment
- AI Safety
Effective Altruism Job Postings | Facebook
- All cause areas
Animal Advocacy Careers job board
- Animal welfare
Directories
EA for Christians community directory
- People who have marked themselves as “Willing to offer career advice” under “What could you help”
- Any cause area
High Impact Professionals talent directory
- Talent directory so you can get approached by hiring managers
- Any cause area
Effective Environmentalism talent directory
- Directory of climate/environment professionals
- Climate/environment
Consultants for Impact Network Directory
- Directory of Consultants for Impact members available to take calls about their careers
- Cause diversified
High Impact Professionals Talent Directory
- Join our Talent Directory and get seen by 200+ high-impact organizations.
- Any high impact cause area
- Directory of EA DC members available to take calls about their careers. (Can share this with individuals but don’t share on public websites where bots can scrape data)
- All major EA cause areas
- Directory of EA France members available to take calls about their careers. 🙂
- Any cause area
The Effective Thesis Expert Network
- Various cause areas
- European Network for AI Safety people directory, not browsable without joining
- AI Safety
Pineapple Operations Generalist Talent Database
- A directory of independent agencies and freelancers offering expertise to EA-aligned organisations.
Courses / Fellowships
AI Safety Support’s list of Fellowships, Internships, and Training
- Centralised list of AI‑safety career development opportunities
- AI Safety
- We help address the US government’s critical gap between subject‑matter experts and the policy world
- Policy
- Mentorship & training to advance responsible food policy
- Agriculture, Climate
High Impact Professionals Impact Accelerator
- 6-week course that helps skilled, driven professionals do more good in the world.
The School for Moral Ambition Fellowships
- Funds a select group of ambitious idealists to work on big global problems. Not an EA org.
- Food transition/alternative proteins, tobacco free future, tax fairness.
- Startup incubation program donating at least 50% of their personal earnings to charities.
- Any cause area
- Consultants for Impact-created 1-2hr reflection & diagnostic exercise to surface someone’s core career uncertainties
High Impact Medicine Career Planning Course
- 6‑week programme to help you map an impactful medical career
- Primarily aimed at impact-driven medical students and doctors
- With this program, Effective Altruism Switzerland (EACH) aims to invite, encourage, and support our most motivated community members who want to act on EA principles in 2025.
- Not by default, but most participants are interested in AI Safety.
Open to Any.
- Ambitious Impact’s 3‑month charity‑research training in global health & animal welfare
- GHD, AW
- Incubation program for launching new, high‑impact charities
- General
- Program to master the essentials of impactful grantmaking, nine weeks
- Any.
BlueDot Impact AI programs
80,000 Hours’ Career Development Course
- This 8-step template is designed to help you write an in-depth and actionable career plan.
- also run by various local groups
Global Challenges Project
- Intensive three-day workshops for students to explore AI safety and biosecurity.
- Longtermist nonprofit incubator
Conferences
Animal, Vegan & Advocacy Summit
- Great for learning about and networking with organisations doing animal‑welfare/rights work
- Animal Welfare
EAG / EAGx Conferences & EA Summits
- Annual gatherings on applying EA to do the most good
- General
- Often DC‑based conferences with evidence‑based global‑development specialists
- Global Development
Conference on Animal Rights in Europe
- Aimed at connecting and inspiring animal advocates from all across the globe, most notably neglected regions, where the animal welfare movement has a shorter track record.
Christians for Impact Conference
- Annual London / DC conference of 100-200 Christians interested in EA topics
- Building a multidisciplinary field focusing on how artificial intelligence can positively impact nonhumans
- GHD focused annual conference in Berlin (not EA focused)
- Global Health and Development
Other resources people from EA career organisations recommend
“Quick Wins” section on Consultants for Impact Monthly Briefs archive
- Collections of publicly available career resources including courses, quizzes, and more
- Career‑advice book, ideal for people new to EA
How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit
- Book on how to found an impactful charity by Charity Entrepreneurship
Michael Aird on how to do Impact-Driven Research - Hear This Idea
- Podcast with Michael Aird full of gold on how to have a high impact career, especially in research
Decision Advisor | ClearerThinking
- Automated tool to guide through big decisions
Map of the Biosecurity Landscape
Effective Environmentalism Slack community
- We’re planning on launching an online Slack community in 2025.
- Climate/environment
(Future resource, summer 2025) Priorities-specific pages on the Effective Environmentalism website
- Articles about e.g. alternative proteins, enhanced geothermal, and climate X-risks with recommendations for people to get involved in these fields.
So You Want to Work on Climate
- A very big list of climate career resources, although many of these are not impact-oriented.
- Climate
- Community of professionals using their talent to tackle climate change
- Resource for using AI to tackle big climate problems
Effective Environmentalism newsletter
- Climate
This is a great resource, very detailed and something I think all group organisers should be aware of! Great work on it.
Two questions:
I expect we'll update this on an (approximately) yearly basis
Thanks for compiling
We also have a job board https://animaladvocacycareers.org/job-board/
Thanks for pointing out it was missing! I use your job board monthly while updating the Christians for Impact one :)