80,000 Hours

Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job

A guide to becoming more successful through greater productivity, faster learning, and better habits, based on what we've found actually works over 15+ years of research.

Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young

Seventeen recommendations from someone we think had a big impact with their career.

All the best advice we could find on how to get a job

We've read a lot of job-hunting advice. Most of it is useless. Here's what we've found actually works — starting with why job boards are a last resort.

If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should

If we actually read the paper we can learn much more than was reported.

Startup employees don't earn more

We estimate typical startup salaries and equity compensation, and find early-employees don't earn more than large company employees.

A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI

Technical AI safety is a multifaceted area of research, with many sub-questions in areas such as reward learning, robustness, and interpretability. These will all need to be answered in order to make sure AI development will go well for humanity as systems become more and more powerful. Not all of these questions are…

Evidence on how to find the right career

Career tests and "going with your gut" don’t work. We analysed all the research on how to find the right career to show you what does.

What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

Anonymous career advice from people whose work we respect.

Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome

The first half of this conversation is a searingly honest account of...

Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work

Which job skills are most employable?

Like many others, we’ve promoted the idea of learning STEM skills. Is that the wrong advice?

Consider applying for grad school

9 reasons to apply to grad school right now, and 8 reasons not to.