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Toggle navigation Search for: * Start here * Career guide * The 80,000 Hours Career Guide * Introduction: Why read this guide? * Part 1: What makes for a dream job? * Part 2: Can one person make a difference? * Part 3: Three ways anyone can have an impact * Part 4: Scale, neglectedness, and solvability * Part 5: The world's most pressing problems * Part 6: Which jobs help people the most? * Part 7: Career capital * Part 8: Personal fit * Part 9: How to be successful * Part 10: How to make your career plan * Part 11: How to get a job * Part 12: Community * Summary: Just the bottom lines * Research * Problem profiles Find out about the world's biggest and most neglected problems. See all → Top areas to work on * Preventing an AI-related catastrophe * Catastrophic pandemics * Nuclear war * Great power war * Climate change Capacity building * Building effective altruism * Global priorities research * Improving decision making Other promising areas * Civilisation resilience * The moral status of digital minds * Promoting positive values * Space governance * Risks of stable totalitarianism * Factory farming * Global health * Wild animal suffering See all problem profiles → * Skills The most useful skills for making a difference. See all → Top skills to build early in your career * Policy and politics * Organisation-building * Research * Communicating ideas * Software and tech * Engineering * Experience with an emerging power * Expertise relevant to a top problem See all our skills pages → * Career reviews Learn about high-impact career paths. See all → Our list of top high-impact career paths * AI governance and policy * AI safety technical research * Biorisk research, strategy, and policy * Information security in high-impact areas * Expert in AI hardware * China-related AI safety and governance * Grantmaker * Helping build the effective altruism community * Nuclear weapons safety and security * Operations in high-impact organisations * Research into global priorities More promising paths * Be a founder * Software engineering * Journalism * See more → How to build great career capital * See our top recommendations → See all career reviews → * Advanced series Our most important research findings. Read the full series → Introduction * Your most important decision Foundations * A definition of impact * Longtermism * Harmful jobs Global priorities * Problem selection * Existential risks * Top problems list Contribution * How to think about your contribution * Effective solutions * List of high-impact careers Personal fit * Gut instinct * Differences in productivity * Comparative advantage Strategy * Ambition * Coordination * Exploration * Impact and satisfaction * Accidental harm Read the full series → * Browse all our content Pick a topic to explore or check out our most popular pieces. Career planning and decision making * How to make your career plan * All our other planning resources Selected topics * Moral philosophy * Career capital * Job satisfaction * Anonymous advice * Unconventional advice * Advocacy * Existential risk * Top-recommended careers See all topics → Top articles from outside our guides * Best charities to donate to * Misconceptions about effective altruism * High-impact research questions * What are your chances of getting elected to Congress, if you try? * How many lives does a doctor save? * What's the impact of voting? * Advice for undergraduates All articles → See all → Top areas to work on * Preventing an AI-related catastrophe * Catastrophic pandemics * Nuclear war * Great power war * Climate change Capacity building * Building effective altruism * Global priorities research * Improving decision making Other promising areas * Civilisation resilience * The moral status of digital minds * Promoting positive values * Space governance * Risks of stable totalitarianism * Factory farming * Global health * Wild animal suffering See all problem profiles → See all → Top skills to build early in your career * Policy and politics * Organisation-building * Research * Communicating ideas * Software and tech * Engineering * Experience with an emerging power * Expertise relevant to a top problem See all our skills pages → See all → Our list of top high-impact career paths * AI governance and policy * AI safety technical research * Biorisk research, strategy, and policy * Information security in high-impact areas * Expert in AI hardware * China-related AI safety and governance * Grantmaker * Helping build the effective altruism community * Nuclear weapons safety and security * Operations in high-impact organisations * Research into global priorities More promising paths * Be a founder * Software engineering * Journalism * See more → How to build great career capital * See our top recommendations → See all career reviews → Read the full series → Introduction * Your most important decision Foundations * A definition of impact * Longtermism * Harmful jobs Global priorities * Problem selection * Existential risks * Top problems list Contribution * How to think about your contribution * Effective solutions * List of high-impact careers Personal fit * Gut instinct * Differences in productivity * Comparative advantage Strategy * Ambition * Coordination * Exploration * Impact and satisfaction * Accidental harm Read the full series → Career planning and decision making * How to make your career plan * All our other planning resources Selected topics * Moral philosophy * Career capital * Job satisfaction * Anonymous advice * Unconventional advice * Advocacy * Existential risk * Top-recommended careers See all topics → Top articles from outside our guides * Best charities to donate to * Misconceptions about effective altruism * High-impact research questions * What are your chances of getting elected to Congress, if you try? * How many lives does a doctor save? * What's the impact of voting? * Advice for undergraduates All articles → * Job board * Podcasts Our podcasts * The 80,000 Hours Podcast * 80k After Hours Curated series * The 80,000 Hours Career Guide * Effective Altruism: An Introduction * Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems * On Artificial Intelligence * Get 1-1 advice * Get 1-1 advice * Newsletter * New releases * All articles * Give feedback * About * About us * Meet the team * Our impact and credibility * Our mistakes * Our donors * Contact us * Support us * Work with us Home Search for: * New releases * All articles * Give feedback * About * About us * Meet the team * Our impact and credibility * Our mistakes * Our donors * Contact us * Support us * Work with us YOU HAVE 80,000 HOURS IN YOUR CAREER. This makes it your best opportunity to have a positive impact on the world. If you’re fortunate enough to be able to use your career for good, but aren’t sure how, our career guide can help you: * Get new ideas for fulfilling careers that do good * Compare your options * Make a plan you feel confident in It’s based on 10 years of research alongside academics at Oxford. We’re a nonprofit, and everything we provide is free. Read our career guide Make the right career choices, and you can help solve the world’s most pressing problems, as well as have a more rewarding, interesting life. We’re here to give you the information you need to find that fulfilling, high-impact career. Our advice is all free, tailored for talented graduates & young professionals, and based on 10 years of research alongside academics at Oxford. Join over 450,000 subscribers, get a free copy of our career guide. Read our career guide This makes it your best opportunity to have a positive impact on the world. If you’re fortunate enough to be able to use your career for good, but aren’t sure how, our career guide can help you: * Get new ideas for high-impact careers * Compare your options in terms of impact * Make a plan you feel confident in It’s based on 10 years of research alongside academics at Oxford. We’re a nonprofit, and everything we provide is free. Read our career guide CAREER GUIDE Our career guide covers everything you need to know about how to find a fulfilling career that does good, from why you shouldn’t “follow your passion,” to why medicine and charity work aren’t always the best ways to help others. It’s full of practical tips and exercises, and at the end, you’ll have a draft of your new career plan. Read our career guide Or read the two-minute summary or get the guide as an audiobook. RESEARCH * LIST OF THE WORLD'S MOST PRESSING PROBLEMS The issue you work on is probably the most important factor determining your impact. It’s important to focus on issues that are not only big, but also neglected and tractable. We think some such issues even threaten the long-run future of humanity – making them especially high priority. Read problem profiles * LIST OF THE MOST USEFUL SKILLS FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE The one-line summary of our career advice is: to have a fulfilling career, build useful skills and use them to tackle pressing global problems. We can help you figure out which skills to focus on and how to get started building them. Read skill pages * LIST OF THE MOST IMPACTFUL CAREERS WE'VE IDENTIFIED SO FAR The highest impact career paths are those that put you in the best positions to tackle the most pressing problems. To help you get ideas for ways to contribute, we review some common options and list some unusual but especially high-impact paths. Read career reviews ADVANCED SERIES The series covers our most important and novel research findings about how to increase the impact of your career, including: what “doing good” even means, why reducing existential risk might be humanity’s biggest and most neglected priority, and how to avoid accidentally making things worse. Read our advanced series AI SAFETY CAREERS HANDBOOK How can you use your career to help prevent an AI-related catastrophe? Our book will give you an overview of the largest risks AI poses, the existing work aimed at reducing the dangers, and how you can enter careers in technical safety, AI policy, and other relevant paths. Learn about our AI safety careers book NEW BOOK ON AI-RELATED CAREERS Are you interested in working in the field of AI? We’ve written extensively about how this technology could affect humanity and how you can work to help mitigate the biggest risks. Learn more about the risks and what these career paths look like. Find out more about our AI careers book AI WILL BE A BIG DEAL. WHAT SHOULD YOU DO ABOUT IT? Developments in the field of AI are coming fast. There are more and more opportunities in technical roles, policy, and other career paths. If you want to get up to speed, our book on AI safety careers will be the place to start. Learn about our AI safety careers book PREVENTING AN AI-RELATED CATASTROPHE The development of transformative AI is likely to greatly influence the course we take as a society. We think that if it goes badly, however, it could pose an existential threat. Click to learn more about the issue and what you can do about it. Read the article LATEST RELEASES VIEW ALL → October 3, 2024 New PETER GODFREY-SMITH ON INTERFERING WITH WILD NATURE, ACCEPTING DEATH, AND THE ORIGIN OF COMPLEX CIVILISATION Read more September 26, 2024 New ANONYMOUS ANSWERS: HOW CAN WE MANAGE INFOHAZARDS IN BIOSECURITY? Read more September 19, 2024 VENKI RAMAKRISHNAN ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF ANTI-AGEING SCIENCE Read more PODCAST In-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them. Subscribe here, or anywhere you get podcasts: * * * * RECOMMENDED EPISODES VIEW ALL → * Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome * Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us * Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite * Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment JOB BOARD Our job board provides a curated list of publicly advertised vacancies that we think are particularly promising. We post roles that we believe are opportunities to either (and often both): 1. Contribute to solving key global problems. 2. Develop the career capital — skills, experience, knowledge, connections and credentials — to solve these problems in the future. View the job board RECENT VACANCIES VIEW ALL → * RESEARCH SCIENTIST, PRIVACY AND SECURITY Google DeepMind San Francisco Bay Area 2 days ago * INTERNSHIP (SPRING 2025) Nuclear Threat Initiative Washington, DC 2 days ago * AQUACULTURE EXPERT Fish Welfare Initiative Andhra Pradesh, India Remote, India 2 days ago GET 1-1 ADVICE If you’re interested in working on one of the global problems we highlight, apply to speak with our team one-on-one for free. We can discuss which problem to focus on, look over your plan, introduce you to mentors, and suggest roles that suit your skills. Get 1-1 advice WHO ARE WE? We started 80,000 Hours when we were about to graduate from Oxford in 2011. Our aim was to provide the advice we wish we’d had back then: transparently explained, based on the best research available, and willing to ask the big questions. By doing this, we hope to get the next generation of leaders tackling the world’s most pressing problems. About us HOW COME THIS IS ALL FREE? We’re an independent nonprofit funded by individual donors and philanthropic foundations. They donate to us so that we can help people have a greater positive impact on the world. We don’t accept any corporate sponsorship or advertising fees. Our donors WHO IS THIS FOR? Our aim is to help people tackle the world’s biggest and most neglected problems, and our advice is aimed at people who have the good fortune to be able to make that their focus, as well as the security to change paths. Due to our limited capacity, some of our advice focuses on a narrow range of paths, and is especially aimed at talented college students and graduates aged 18–30, though many of the ideas we cover are relevant to everyone. Our audience WHAT RESEARCH IS YOUR ADVICE BASED ON? Our advice is based on hundreds of expert interviews; what we’ve learned advising 5,000+ people one-on-one over 10 years; and where possible, the academic literature on global problems and career success. What is our advice based on? OUR IMPACT IN NUMBERS: 10m readers 5,000+ advising calls 3,000+ career plan changes recorded READER STORIES ETHAN PEREZ Ethan Perez was studying computer science when he came across 80,000 Hours, which convinced him that the risk from advanced artificial intelligence was a highly pressing problem. After speaking with an 80,000 Hours advisor, he decided to work full time on AI safety instead of pursuing a career in self-driving car technology. He went on to write his PhD thesis on fixing undesirable behaviour in language models and took a role as a research scientist working on AI safety at Anthropic. Read more ELIKA SOMANI Elika started her career in global health, which she describes as “my first love, career wise.” Over time, 80,000 Hours and the effective altruism community helped her conclude that she could increase her expected impact by pivoting into biosecurity. She applied for, and was offered, the role of Fellow with the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. After speaking with an 80,000 Hours advisor, she decided to accept the job. She now conducts research on neglected problems in biosecurity, and also in clinical research ethics. Read more KATIE HEARSUM Katie was working at a bank, but she had a feeling that she wanted to use her career to help others — she just wasn’t sure exactly how. She spoke to an 80,000 Hours advisor who helped her realise she could have an impact by helping to improve the long-term future and connected her to a network of people working in this area. After exploring her options, Katie realised she had a strong personal fit for operations work and accepted a role in operations at Longview Philanthropy, an organisation aimed at reducing the risks of a major global catastrophe. Katie was promoted to head of operations a year later. Read more Learn more about our impact HAVE A GREATER POSITIVE IMPACT WITH YOUR CAREER Join our newsletter to receive a free copy of our career guide, and weekly high-impact job opportunities and updates on our research. You’ll be joining our community of over 450,000 people. T&Cs here. You can unsubscribe in one click. JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER Get weekly updates on our research, plus jobs and other opportunities to get involved. GET 1-1 ADVICE Want to tackle a pressing global problem with your career? 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