Headhunting database
Let promising opportunities find you
Join our headhunting database so we can consider you for roles, fellowships and other opportunities where your skills could help society navigate advanced AI.
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We look for matches while you work. An organisation only gets in touch when we both see a fit.
Hear about unadvertised roles
Some organisations ask us to suggest candidates for roles they never advertise publicly.
Leave at any time
Leave whenever you like. We’ll stop using or sharing your profile for future opportunities.
How it works
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Fill in your profile
Add your experience, skills and preferences to your profile. You can fill it in yourself or let our AI advisor help as you chat, and edit it at any time. A fuller profile also helps our AI advisor give you more relevant job recommendations.
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AI helps us find possible matches
Organisations ask us to suggest candidates. AI compares what they’re looking for with profiles in the database and identifies possible matches. Our headhunters also review most searches.
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Organisations review your profile
If you could be a good fit, we may share your profile with the people selecting candidates. They review the info and decide whether to reach out.
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You decide what happens next
An organisation may contact you to discuss the opportunity. There’s no obligation to reply: you decide whether to apply or take the conversation further.
Before you join
Joining lets us use AI to identify possible matches and share your profile for relevant opportunities. We will not ask or routinely notify you each time we share it.
Usually someone on our team reviews the strongest matches before we share them. For some searches, we send the organisation an AI-generated list without reviewing it first. The organisation decides whom to contact, interview or hire.
You can edit your profile or leave at any time. Leaving stops future sharing, but it can’t recall information already sent.
Your current employer could find out that you’ve joined if we share your profile with them, or if you opt in to let approved hirers browse it.
For more on how we collect, use and share your information, see our privacy policy.
FAQ
- What kinds of opportunities and organisations do you cover?
- We help nonprofits, companies, public-sector teams, grantmakers, founders and fellowship organisers find people for jobs, fellowships and new projects. We focus on opportunities that could help society navigate advanced AI, including work in research, policy, operations, grantmaking and field-building. This list gives a sense of the kinds of organisations we work with. It isn’t an exact list of the organisations that use this service.
- What might you share?
When we put you forward, we usually share your name, email, and LinkedIn. We typically also include a short (often AI-generated) explanation of why you might fit the opportunity.
In the Profile and Search sections of your profile, fields marked with a crossed-out eye stay with 80,000 Hours and are not shared.
- Do you use information about me from other sources?
- We combine information you give us with professional information from public sources, such as LinkedIn. We may also use information from partner organisations if, when signing up with them, you consented to your information being shared with organisations like 80,000 Hours.
- What will you say about me?
- When we put you forward, we only share your profile when we think there’s a positive case for considering you. We don’t tell organisations who we considered but didn’t share, or share negative assessments or our internal scores and rankings.
- How do you use AI?
We use AI to compare your profile with the criteria for specific opportunities and rank possible matches. Usually someone on our team reviews the strongest results, but in some searches an AI-generated list goes directly to the organisation.
We only work with AI providers who are contractually prohibited from using your information to train their models, and we won’t send personal data to a provider that can’t commit to that.
- Will you ask me before sharing my profile?
- No. Joining gives us permission to share your profile when we think you might fit a relevant opportunity. We will not ask or routinely notify you each time.
- Can approved hirers browse my profile directly?
- Only if you turn on wider visibility. This lets approved hiring managers, founders and fellowship organisers browse your profile and contact you directly, even when we have not put you forward. Your profile is not public on the web, and you can turn wider visibility off at any time.
- Could my current employer see that I have joined?
- Potentially. Someone at your current employer could see your profile if we share it with that organisation or if you turn on wider visibility of your profile. We try to hide your profile from searches by your current employer, though we can’t promise we’ll catch every case.
- How often will I hear from you?
- It’s hard to predict. Some people hear about several opportunities in a year; others rarely or not at all. It depends on which searches come up, how well they fit your profile and whether an organisation decides to contact you.
- Can I update my information or leave the database?
- Yes. When you update your information in your profile, we will use your updated profile for all future searches. Leaving stops us using or sharing your profile for future opportunities. Updating or leaving the database does not recall information already sent to an organisation. You can change your preferences here.
- How can I contact you with feedback or questions?
- Email headhunting@80000hours.org.
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