Show HN: A tool that guides you through career decisions
80000hours.org
80000hours.org
We've done one-on-one career coaching with a couple of hundred people, and found ourselves asking the same questions over and over again. So we put the most common questions into this simple tool.
It acts like a checklist to make sure you haven't missed a key bit of our advice. It's on the way to automated coaching.
It takes about an hour to work all the way through. That's long, but people use it for major life decisions.
We built it in Guidedtrack, a simple high-level language for making Q&A tools. It allows our researchers to edit the content quickly. We then overlaid our CSS theme. https://www.guidedtrack.com/
It gets about 1,000 users per week.
The aim of the tool is to cause people to change their career plans. 17% of users report a career plan change from engaging with us (though not necessarily from the tool itself).
4% make it to the end. That's less than 17% because we have a survey about a quarter of the way in, as well as at the end.
Net promoter score is -10%, and use isn't growing.
What are the most effective ways to make it better?