Planning a High-Impact Career: A Summary of Everything You Need to Know in 7 Points

AI Safety Fundamentals: Alignment

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/
Author:
Benjamin Todd

A podcast by BlueDot Impact.
Learn more on the AI Safety Fundamentals website.

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1. Planning a High-Impact Career: A Summary of Everything You Need to Know in 7 Points (00:00:00)

2. #1. Use these three factors to clarify what a successful career looks like. (00:00:36)

3. #2. Think hard about which global problems you work on — it might be the most important choice you make. (00:02:45)

4. #3. You can’t predict where you’ll end up, but you should have some hypotheses about the best longer-term career paths. (00:03:46)

5. #4. Career strategy has three basic steps: explore, take bets on paths that build your strengths, and then use your strengths to solve pressing problems. (00:05:36)

6. #5. Work both backwards and forwards to find your next career move. (00:06:47)

7. #6. Have a plan B and a plan Z. (00:08:06)

8. What’s next? (00:10:01)