You have 80,000 hours in your career. It’s your biggest opportunity to have a positive impact on the world.
How can you best spend those hours?
How to find a fulfilling career that does good
Why?
How?
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Read our career guides
The following career guides focus on pressing world problems and have concrete tips for people living in the Netherlands:
And there are several career guides on their way! If you like to chat about these or other cause areas, reach out for a virtual coffee.
Unfamiliar with EA? Join our intro programme first
If you’re new to Effective Altruism, our introductory programme is the perfect first step. Over 5 weeks, you’ll explore the core principles of EA, guided by a facilitator and alongside a small group of like-minded individuals in the Netherlands.
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Got questions or feeling uncertain? Let’s chat. Schedule a relaxed call with us. It’s a chance for a genuine conversation, where we can address your queries and share insights about the world of impactful careers. We’re here to assist and guide.
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Career guidance
80,000hours.com
Has spent more than 10 years researching how you can best use your career to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Includes a career guide, podcast and job board.
Probably Good
Is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to helping people find careers that are good for them and good for the world. They provide personal career advising, career profiles and other resources to empower more people to make a positive impact through their work.
High-Impact Professionals
Helps working professionals to have the biggest impact possible. They run career workshops, support workplace groups and help run corporate fundraising campaigns.
Successif
Helps mid-career and senior professionals leverage their expertise to address pressing global issues. They offer career mentoring, opportunity matching and professional training.
Magnifying Mentoring
Supports, inspires, and connects a global community of women, non-binary, and trans people of all genders who are motivated to have a positive impact with their careers and lives.
School for Moral Ambition (Dutch)
School for Moral Ambition aims to stop the waste of talent. They provide online resources to start your own moral ambition circle and plan your career.
Animal Advocacy Careers
Speeds up the end of unnecessary animal suffering by matching people to roles that help animals most. They have an online course, a job board and a careers advising service.
Job boards
Opportunity Board
Helps aspiring effective altruists skill-build and find impactful positions. They feature everything short of permanent positions. This opportunity board features opportunities that require less time or experience.
80,000 Hours’ job board
Is the go-to place for high impact jobs. Especially for people who are willing to move abroad or are open to working remotely.
Tälist Alt Protein job board
Matches Alternative Protein businesses with the best talent from around the globe. For the benefit of humans, nature and animals.
Animal Advocacy Careers job board
Speeds up the end of unnecessary animal suffering by matching people to roles that help animals most. They have an online course, a job board and a careers advising service.
Overview of job boards
Probably Good has compiled a list of global and regional job sites, also by cause area.
Training and Fellowship Programmes
Charity Entrepreneurship’s Research Training Programme
Is an online course designed to equip participants with the tools and skills needed to identify, compare, and recommend the most effective charities and interventions. It is a full-time fully cost-covered programme that lasts 11 weeks.
MATS program
Apply for the MATS program to fast-track your career in AI safety. Gain skills, financial support, and a network committed to reducing global risks. Apply now to make an impact.
Charity Entrepreneurship’s Grantmaker Training Programme
Boosts your philanthropic impact. Acquire essential tools and skills for effective, evidence-based funding.
BlueDot Impact
Runs courses that support you to develop the knowledge, community and network needed to pursue a high impact career. E.g. AI Safety fundamentals and Biosecurity fundamentals.
School for Moral Ambition (Dutch)
School for Moral Ambition aims to stop the waste of talent. They provide online resources to start your own moral ambition circle and plan your career.
Charity Entrepreneurship’s incubation programme
CE is a nonprofit charity incubator. They research high-impact ideas, recruit aspiring entrepreneurs and provide them with the training and funding to turn these ideas into high-impact organisations.
Training for Good
Kickstarts policy and journalism careers that reduce risks from emerging technologies. They have two main programmes. A 7-month fellowship for entering European policy careers focused on emerging technology, and a 12-month fellowship for early career journalists interested in covering artificial intelligence.
Community and networking
EA Consultancy Network
Is a community of consultants, who use evidence and reason to figure out how they/you can help others as much as possible. They want to maximise social impact by finding and funding solutions to the worlds most pressing problems and by spreading the idea of effective altruism.
Tien Procent Club (NL)
Is a community of people who want to become better at doing good. Donating a portion of your income to the most effective initiatives is an idea whose time has come. Their events are in Dutch and full of moral ambitous individuals.
EA Groups in NL
There are effective altruism groups all over the Netherlands. Their purpose is to help their members maximise their social impact.
Online EA groups
Explore general and topic-specific online groups to discover the perfect fit for your interests and needs.
Effective Altruism Forum
Research, discussion, and updates on the world’s most pressing problems. Including global health and development, animal welfare, AI safety, etc.
High impact medicine
A global non-profit organisation helping medical students and doctors do the most good they can with their careers and donations.
High Impact Engineers
A global community created to communicate research on the highest-impact engineering problems and provide coordination and resources for engineers to tackle these problems.
Podcasts, videos and books
The 80,000 Hours Career Guide Podcast
Prefer listening? Here is the audio version of the 80.000 Hours Career Guide of 2023 on Spotify [4 hours and 41 minutes].
The 80,000 Hours Podcast
In-depth conversations about the world’s most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them.
Talks from EA Global
This YouTube channel contains videos that help you explore how to do the most good. Most are recordings of talks from Effective Altruism Global conferences (eaglobal.org), which are run by the Centre for Effective Altruism.
80,000 Hours Book (free)
Get a free paperback or PDF copy of the book when you join the 80,000 Hours newsletter. A free guide based on 10+ years of research on how to find a fulfilling career that does good.
Boek: Morele ambitie
Morele ambitie, stop het verpillen van je talent en maak werk van je idealen, is het nieuwe boek van Rutger Bregman. Bordevol inspiratie, handvatten en voorbeelden.
Experiences
I’ve seen the horrors of war and famine, which humanity aims to prevent. In contrast, factory farming is growing, subsidised by governments, and nonprofits receive far less funding. I realised animal suffering is even more neglected than human suffering.
I think it is a valuable flow-through effect of starting a charity that more people can get the opportunity to work on something impactful.
The huge network I’ve gotten in contact with through EA has been amazing. I’ve made this pivot much, much faster than I think I could have accomplished in other comparable fields.
