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Operations management in high-impact organisations (Article)

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The Career Capital of Working in an Effective Altruist Organization

Operations work in an organization like FHI can be a fantastic way to tool up and gain fluency. Kyle Scott considered taking a corporate job to earn to give, but instead applied to work at the future of humanity institute in operations. This led to him becoming personal assistant to Nick Bostrom, the founder of the institute. In this role, he did a huge variety of things to save time, such as organizing meetings and media interviews,. editing his website, and deciding which conferences to attend. The skills that you develop while working in operations are extremely fungible. They are very transferable skills, so you have the opportunity to work with organizations in a lot of different cause areas.

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