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  • Career guide
    • The 80,000 Hours Career Guide
    • Introduction: Why read this guide?
    • Part 1: What makes for a dream job?
    • Part 2: Can one person make a difference?
    • Part 3: Three ways anyone can have an impact
    • Part 4: Scale, neglectedness, and solvability
    • Part 5: The world's most pressing problems
    • Part 6: Which jobs help people the most?
    • Part 7: Career capital
    • Part 8: Personal fit
    • Part 9: How to be successful
    • Part 10: How to make your career plan
    • Part 11: How to get a job
    • Part 12: Community
    • Summary: Just the bottom lines
  • Research
    • Problem profiles Find out about the world's biggest and most neglected problems.
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      Top areas to work on
      • Preventing an AI-related catastrophe
      • Catastrophic pandemics
      • Nuclear war
      • Great power war
      • Climate change
      Capacity building
      • Building effective altruism
      • Global priorities research
      • Improving decision making
      Other promising areas
      • Civilisation resilience
      • Artificial sentience
      • Promoting positive values
      • Space governance
      • Risks of stable totalitarianism
      • Factory farming
      • Easily preventable or treatable illness
      • Wild animal suffering
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    • Skills The most useful skills for making a difference.
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      Top skills to build early in your career
      • Policy and politics
      • Organisation-building
      • Research
      • Communicating ideas
      • Software and tech
      • Engineering
      • Experience with an emerging power
      • Expertise relevant to a top problem
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    • Career reviews Learn about high-impact career paths.
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      Our list of top high-impact career paths
      • AI safety technical research
      • AI governance and coordination
      • Biorisk research, strategy, and policy
      • Information security in high-impact areas
      • Expert in AI hardware
      • Helping build the effective altruism community
      • China-related AI safety and governance
      • Grantmaker
      • Operations in high-impact organisations
      • Research into global priorities
      More promising paths
      • Be a founder
      • Software engineering
      • Journalism
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      How to build great career capital
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    • Advanced series Our most important research findings.
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      Introduction
      • Your most important decision
      Foundations
      • A definition of impact
      • Longtermism
      • Harmful jobs
      Global priorities
      • Problem selection
      • Existential risks
      • Top problems list
      Contribution
      • How to think about your contribution
      • Effective solutions
      • List of high-impact careers
      Personal fit
      • Gut instinct
      • Differences in productivity
      • Comparative advantage
      Strategy
      • Ambition
      • Coordination
      • Exploration
      • Impact and satisfaction
      • Accidental harm
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      Career planning and decision making
      • How to make your career plan
      • All our other planning resources
      Selected topics
      • Moral philosophy
      • Career capital
      • Job satisfaction
      • Anonymous advice
      • Unconventional advice
      • Advocacy
      • Existential risk
      • Top-recommended careers
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      Top articles from outside our guides
      • Best charities to donate to
      • Misconceptions about effective altruism
      • High-impact research questions
      • What are your chances of getting elected to Congress, if you try?
      • How many lives does a doctor save?
      • What's the impact of voting?
      • Advice for undergraduates
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    See all →
    Top areas to work on
    • Preventing an AI-related catastrophe
    • Catastrophic pandemics
    • Nuclear war
    • Great power war
    • Climate change
    Capacity building
    • Building effective altruism
    • Global priorities research
    • Improving decision making
    Other promising areas
    • Civilisation resilience
    • Artificial sentience
    • Promoting positive values
    • Space governance
    • Risks of stable totalitarianism
    • Factory farming
    • Easily preventable or treatable illness
    • Wild animal suffering
    See all problem profiles →
    See all →
    Top skills to build early in your career
    • Policy and politics
    • Organisation-building
    • Research
    • Communicating ideas
    • Software and tech
    • Engineering
    • Experience with an emerging power
    • Expertise relevant to a top problem
    See all our skills pages →
    See all →
    Our list of top high-impact career paths
    • AI safety technical research
    • AI governance and coordination
    • Biorisk research, strategy, and policy
    • Information security in high-impact areas
    • Expert in AI hardware
    • Helping build the effective altruism community
    • China-related AI safety and governance
    • Grantmaker
    • Operations in high-impact organisations
    • Research into global priorities
    More promising paths
    • Be a founder
    • Software engineering
    • Journalism
    • See more →
    How to build great career capital
    • See our top recommendations →
    See all career reviews →
    Read the full series →
    Introduction
    • Your most important decision
    Foundations
    • A definition of impact
    • Longtermism
    • Harmful jobs
    Global priorities
    • Problem selection
    • Existential risks
    • Top problems list
    Contribution
    • How to think about your contribution
    • Effective solutions
    • List of high-impact careers
    Personal fit
    • Gut instinct
    • Differences in productivity
    • Comparative advantage
    Strategy
    • Ambition
    • Coordination
    • Exploration
    • Impact and satisfaction
    • Accidental harm
    Read the full series →
    Career planning and decision making
    • How to make your career plan
    • All our other planning resources
    Selected topics
    • Moral philosophy
    • Career capital
    • Job satisfaction
    • Anonymous advice
    • Unconventional advice
    • Advocacy
    • Existential risk
    • Top-recommended careers
    See all topics →
    Top articles from outside our guides
    • Best charities to donate to
    • Misconceptions about effective altruism
    • High-impact research questions
    • What are your chances of getting elected to Congress, if you try?
    • How many lives does a doctor save?
    • What's the impact of voting?
    • Advice for undergraduates
    All articles →
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