Want to figure out how to use your career to help others? Apply for a free advising call with our team!
Whether you’re a student searching for the right path or an experienced professional seeking a purpose-driven opportunity, we’re here to help you brainstorm career paths, evaluate options, and plan next steps.
What does a typical career advising call look like?
We’ll start with a friendly intro to hear more about your background, goals, current plans or uncertainties. We’ll then give our perspective on whatever questions/considerations come up, tackle your major questions, and try to figure out what next steps might be best for you.
Don’t worry about having all the answers – our goal is to create a collaborative, curious, and honest space to work through your career decisions and make an action plan.
What are the benefits of a call with Probably Good?
- Get connected with relevant organizations, people, and opportunities
- Receive impartial advice on critical career moves, from strategic pathways to tactical skill enhancements
- Brainstorm and learn about new career options that you haven’t thought of before
- Turn your intuitions and uncertainties into a plan with concrete next steps
- Develop concrete ways to test hypotheses or gather information on questions like “Should I go to grad school?” or “Should I work in X or Y?”
- Customize helpful frameworks to help you evaluate and choose between two or more opportunities
- Get connected with relevant organizations, people, and opportunities
“Seeking a transition from academia to a role with higher direct impact, I turned to Probably Good for guidance. Their personalized coaching was instrumental, not only in boosting my confidence but also in broadening my understanding of how my skills and comparative advantage could be leveraged in various high impact career paths. What stood out most was the thoughtful follow-up exchanges and the extensive resources provided, which perfectly complemented the insightful advice from our one-on-one sessions.”
— Sabrina Zacarias, Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University
Who can we help?
Our career advising program is geared toward people who want to have a meaningful impact with their careers. We talk with students who are open to exploring a broad range of career paths and with seasoned professionals seeking impactful projects that could use their expertise.
Some people come into advising sessions with set plans and strong intuitions about their career, while others come in with broad questions and a lot of uncertainty. Our goal is to meet you where you’re at and equip you with whatever is needed to move forward in finding a career that can meaningfully impact the world.
How do I apply?
As a nonprofit, our advising calls are completely free of cost. To apply, simply fill out our brief application form.
As a small team, we may not be able to meet with everyone who applies. But if you’re unsure, we encourage you to take a chance and apply anyway. Feel free to share your uncertainties in the application form and we’ll follow up with more details.
If you have further questions about the application process, please send us a message via our contact form or email us at team@probablygood.org.
Other helpful resources
If we’re unable to meet with you at this time, you can check out these opportunities for personalized career guidance from other impact-focused organizations:
- 80,000 Hours offers career advising calls to people committed to promoting welfare over the long-term.
- Animal Advocacy Careers provides guidance and cohort-based online courses for people wanting to work in animal welfare.
- SuccessIf provides career coaching for mid-career and senior professionals wanting to make a positive impact.
- Charity Entrepreneurship offers 1-on-1 guidance sessions for people thinking about founding an organization or learning about entrepreneurship.
- Impactful Government Careers is a UK-based organization that offers 1-on-1 career consultations for people who are interested in pursuing a career in the civil service or government.
- Training For Good offers professional coaching sessions to people who want to make an impact with their career.
- Consultants for Impact offers Career Conversations to altruistic students considering going into consulting and consultants looking to increase their impact.
