Dates: March 12 – April 23, 2025 (6 weeks)
Location: Online (Zoom)
Cost: Free, including 1-on-1 coaching
Your career is your greatest opportunity to make a difference. Yet, choosing a path that is both fulfilling and impactful is no small feat. The Nordic Career Planning Course, now in its third edition, helps ambitious professionals navigate this challenge.
Hosted by Effective Altruism organizations across the Nordics, this structured six-week program offers key frameworks, real-world case studies, and guided exercises to help you identify career paths where you can maximize your positive impact. Participants commit to two hours of weekly discussions and 1.5 hours of preparation.
Spots are limited — apply now to shape your career with purpose.
Is this program for you?
- You want to have a larger positive impact through your career, but you don’t have a plan or would like to review the plan.
- Would like to have more tools and structure for thinking about your career.
- Are willing to commit 2 per week for discussion and 1.5 hours in preparation reading and exercises.
- Are based in or have a strong connection to the Nordic countries.
The content of the program will mostly be based on material from 80,000 hours.
This course will be hosted by Nordic national effective altruism organizations such as EA Finland, EA Norway, EA Sweden and EA Denmark.
Syllabus Outline
Session 1 – Introduction to high impact career planning
We will discuss and identify the key aspects of a dream job as well as starting to identify what a high impact career would look like for you. Introduction to key frameworks for thinking about different cause areas.
Session 2 – Exploring high impact career paths
The session revisits the previously discussed frameworks and delves deeper into the personal career application they will have. The focus of the session will be the distinction between cause areas and career paths, showcasing organizations relevant to a series of cause areas and concrete examples of high impact career orientations.
Session 3 – Mapping out what you know, love and could learn to love
The session addresses mapping of career capital and personal fit, illustrating with clear examples. It will focus on aligning the desire to do good, financial viability, skills, and enjoyment, followed by exercises to identify personal fit while honestly assessing past experiences. We will also start clarifying the strategic focus of your current career phase.
Session 4 – Identifying relevant career options
The session delves into combining cause prioritization and our previous personal & professional experiences to generate a multitude of options for possible career paths. You will assess your current position, and map out realistic but ambitious career opportunities, whilst planning for adaptability. The session will also contain resources on how to make good decisions to move forward.
Session 5 – Turning uncertainties into triable theories
The workshop session involves identifying uncertainties in the options list you’ve come up with as well as refining your list of options into a smaller set of possible career paths. Further the session will focus on converting these uncertainties into actionable research points for investigation.
Session 6 – Turning the plan into action
The session will focus on making sure the plan is solid in a way that will integrate well with your life.
