TLDR: New undergraduate internship board here
What’s happening?
We’re excited to announce that the EA internships board is now live! As mentioned in our previous post, we hope to connect students to opportunities and provide them with funding for unpaid internships. You can view our board here. Feel free to comment with feedback.
What’s next?
A few things:
How can I help?
Acknowledgments:
Thanks to Michel Justen, Lenni Justen, Emma Dolan, Adam Krivka, Patricio Ortiz, Sanat Singhal, Danya Adib, and Mason Zhang for their help with this project.
This looks great! I'm concerned that it won't get the traffic it needs to be useful to people. Have you considered/attempted reaching out to 80K to put a link on the job board or something? That's my go-to careers resource, and I think the main way I could learn about the existence of something like this once this post is off the front page.
Thank you, this is amazing work! This will be very helpful to share with our intro fellows who are interested in internships this summer.
I'm glad to see this project go live, as I (and other people) have frequently griped about so many job boards seeming to focus on positions that required experience that I, as a recent college graduate do not have.
At the same time, I'd like to reiterate/reemphasize my comment from the previous post on this project: I would strongly recommend going beyond simply providing a list of high-impact, highly-competitive positions that people like younger me probably would have looked at and said “I’ll focus on applying for these positions,” only to end up being systemically under-qualified/competitive and not get anything. For example, you could include on the site some kind of link to advice that basically says things like "don't just apply for these positions; also apply for less-competitive internships even if they aren't directly EA related or even if they aren't directly related to your field." (This is where some of the non-EA organization suggestions I've had in mind might come into play.)
While I'm supportive of gathering this position information in one place, I could also see it as having potential drawbacks if it causes people to over-focus on these positions: I could totally see myself (someone who has struggled for years with mediocre success to get experience in the fields I'm pursuing) falling into that trap.
On a related note, my general impression has been "if you can manage to get a position in a high-impact area early in your career, that's great, but the reality is that most positions won't themselves directly lead to high impact; the key is the experience, professional connections, and future application material you get from such positions."
This is cool! I've added it to the forum sidebar so that it gets more visibility. Let me know if you would like the text to be different – I wasn't sure what the official name of your project is.
Iff it's not too much effort, can include as filters:
- Location: US / Europe / Remote / Other
- Funding provided
Thank you so much for this tool, it looks very valuable!
A small problem I get at the moment: If I choose any location, it gives me "Unknown field names: remote opportunity?. Please ensure that the field exists and is not incorrectly mapped."
Awesome!
Some other organizations worth sharing on your website and/or getting their job board entries from are:
As a not-student with self-funding who is looking for things to try, is this board also for me?
Thank you for making this job board! I'll find it very useful. Can I suggest you organise a mailing list, in the same vein as the 80,000 Hours Job board mailing list? I think it's most important to touch on the most promising internships you've recently added. I find it really helpful to get email reminders like that.
I would recommend using a custom domain instead of the proy.app subdomain. Even if you just have the custom domain redirect to the pory.app so that you can share the link around and if you change away from Pory then you control the domain and don't have dead links everywhere.
... Yes, I have made this mistake.
Agreed, and I'd just add that it's better to set up a proper custom domain rather than just a redirect, since a bunch of people will inevitably copy the post-redirect URL around, even if the EA team themselves are careful to only link to the custom domain. It's a 2 minute job - just need to log into the domain management where effectivealtruism.org is registered and add a CNAME record that points internships.effectivealtruism.org to ea-internships.pory.app