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Jess Whittlestone - Effective Career Choice - EA Global Melbourne 2015

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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2015 · Science & Technology

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Jess discusses making high impact career choices for the Effective Altruist community - many people see the 80,000 Hours as being all about how to more effectively earn to give, though Jess points out that this not the whole story.

Bio: Jess first got involved in the EA movement back in 2012 when she helped to set up and run 80,000 Hours, the careers advice service for people who care about making a difference. After working for 80k for a year, she began a PhD in Behavioural Science, with a particular interest in reducing harmful cognitive biases - specifically those affecting how we form and change beliefs. Despite not officially working for CEA anymore, she's found it difficult to stay away from their offices in Oxford, hanging around whenever she can to keep up to date with what's going on and volunteering where she can be useful. She has also briefly forayed into journalism as 'productive procrastination' from her PhD, and is (trying to be) mostly vegan.

http://jesswhittlestone.com
https://80000hours.org/career-guide/member-stories/jess-whittlestone/
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