Planning a High-Impact Career: A Summary of Everything You Need to Know in 7 Points
Apr 16, 2024
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Learn how to plan a high-impact career by aligning your values with global problems, creating long-term career hypotheses, and exploring strategic decision-making. Discover the importance of transferable career capital, managing uncertainties, and continuous career planning to ensure success and fulfillment.
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Quick takeaways
Define career success through positive impact, personal priorities, and moral values.
Make informed global issue focus decisions based on importance, neglect, tractability, and collaboration with communities.
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Factors for Clarifying a Successful Career
To define a successful career, consider three factors: impartial positive impact, personal priorities, and other moral values. Maximize your impact by assessing the pressing problem, effectiveness of the opportunity, and your fit with it. Choose work that is personally satisfying to maintain productivity over time.
Choosing Global Problems to Work On
Make informed decisions on which global issues to focus on, as some problems are more significant and neglected than others. Refine your choices based on importance, neglect, tractability, and your research. Collaborate with communities for impactful contributions, aiming high for greater outcomes.
Career Planning Strategies
Experiment with career choices to learn and gain transferable skills. Focus on paths with high potential upside in impact, career capital, and satisfaction. Prepare alternate plans to address uncertainties and approach decisions methodically like a scientist to mitigate risks.
We took 10 years of research and what we’ve learned from advising 1,000+ people on how to build high-impact careers, compressed that into an eight-week course to create your career plan, and then compressed that into this three-page summary of the main points.
(It’s especially aimed at people who want a career that’s both satisfying and has a significant positive impact, but much of the advice applies to all career decisions.)
Original article: https://80000hours.org/career-planning/summary/