The highest-impact career for you is the one that allows you to make the biggest contribution to help animals.
We have put together skills profiles for specific career paths we think are especially impactful. The lists are based on our research and experience advising people, as well as on the talent bottlenecks in the movement.
Campaigners work to pressure corporations, governments, or the public to adopt more animal-friendly policies and practices.
Fundraisers can increase the money available for effective animal advocacy nonprofits, enabling them to help animals more.
Managers and leaders can have a multiplier effect on the impact of their colleagues at animal advocacy nonprofits or food companies.
You can encourage changes and improvements in legislation, regulation, and enforcement, redirect government spending, and shift social norms and attitudes in ways that are more favourable to animals.
Our Career Path Guides are intended to be used as part of a careful career plan, such as to help you decide which job types you should seek to explore next. We don’t think that everyone should try to develop these particular types of expertise; you should only do so if it makes sense in terms of your wider impact-focused career strategy, e.g. you have a good personal fit.
The profiles here are not an exhaustive list of skills and career paths that can be highly impactful for animals. We expect to create further Career Path Guides going forwards.
80,000 Hours have a useful list of career reviews that are not specific to particular cause areas. Our skills profiles are intended to supplement that list.
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