The 80000 Hours Career Guide — Find a fulfilling career that does good
An audio version of the 2023 80,000 Hours Career Guide (https://80000hours.org/career-guide/). Also available on Amazon, Audible, and free on our website .
It contains 11 chapters, from 'What makes for a dream job?' to 'Which jobs help people the most?' to 'What’s the best way to gain connections?'
It also has 9 appendices on a range of topics like 'All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job' and 'is it ever OK to take a harmful job in order to do more good?'
If you know someone who might find our career guide helpful, you can get a free copy sent to them by going to 80000hours.org/gift.
Latest episodes
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Sep 3, 2023 • 29min
Part 10: All the best advice we could find on how to get a job
Learn expert advice on how to successfully navigate the job search process. Importance of considering backup and stretch positions. Effective job interview strategies and the power of negotiation. Tips and strategies for job hunting and career development.
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Sep 3, 2023 • 11min
Part 11: One of the most powerful ways to improve your career — join a community.
Learn about the benefits of joining a community for personal and professional growth, collaboration, and career improvement. Hear stories of people who have made significant impacts through community involvement. Find out how to identify and join various communities and the resources available for getting involved.
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Sep 3, 2023 • 4min
The end: A cheery final note — imagining your deathbed
This podcast explores the importance of reflecting on career choices, imagining one's deathbed and potential career regrets. It emphasizes turning outward, contributing to the world, building useful skills, and applying them to meaningful problems. It concludes with a reminder to adapt one's career plan and seek community.
Sep 3, 2023 • 5min
Appendix A: The meaning of making a difference
Lots of people say they want to “make a difference,” “do good,” “have a social impact,” or “make the world a better place” — but they rarely say what they mean by those terms.By getting clearer about your definition, you can better target your efforts. So how should you define social impact?
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Sep 3, 2023 • 59min
Appendix B: All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job
The trouble with self-help advice is that it’s often based on barely any evidence.Much other advice is just one person’s opinion, or useless clichés. But at 80,000 Hours, we’ve found that there are a number of evidence-backed steps that anyone can take to become more productive and successful in their career, and life in general. And as we saw in an earlier article, people can keep improving their skills for decades.
Sep 3, 2023 • 6min
Appendix C: Four biases to avoid in career decisions
Over the last couple of decades, a large and growing body of research has emerged which shows that our decisions are far from rational. We did a survey of this research to find out what it means for your career decisions.
Sep 3, 2023 • 19min
Appendix D: How to make tough career decisions
Sep 3, 2023 • 35min
Appendix E: Is it ever OK to take a harmful job in order to do more good? An in-depth analysis
Sep 3, 2023 • 1h 24min
Appendix H: Career review summaries
As part of our research, we’ve evaluated different careers: how likely people are to succeed in them, how much good they could do in them, and how to enter them.
Sep 3, 2023 • 6min
