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How to work on the world’s largest and most neglected problems from the Netherlands
What is this?
This board is about one question: how do you work on the world’s largest and most neglected problems from the Netherlands? We track four problem areas and look for the Dutch roles that genuinely move them.
Most are at employers who would not say they work on a big global problem: a ministry, a bank, a regulator, a university. For each one we write a sentence or two about where the leverage sits — why this particular role changes more than one person’s work.
We keep the list short. Twenty-five good listings are worth more than two hundred mediocre ones.
Look outside the Netherlands first
If you are genuinely optimising your career for impact, the strongest opportunities are usually not in the Netherlands. Much of the work on these problems is concentrated in London, the Bay Area, Washington and Nairobi. These three boards cover it better than we do, and you should look at them first.
- 80,000 HoursThe largest list of roles at organisations working on these problems, with detailed career research alongside it.
- Probably GoodRoles and career advice, with more weight on global health and animal welfare.
- EA OpportunitiesAlso internships, fellowships, research programmes and shorter projects — useful if a permanent job is not the right next step.
Not everyone can move. A partner with a job here, children in school, caring responsibilities, a residence permit — or you simply do not want to leave. That is a reasonable trade-off, not a lack of commitment. This board is built for that situation: the best options we can find in the Netherlands. We would rather say so up front than let you work it out later.
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