All our research

We’ve been researching how to increase the impact of your career since 2011.
Our most important findings are presented in our key ideas series, so that’s where to start if you’re new. After you’ve read the series, come back here to go deeper.

Key ideas

This introductory series presents the most important findings from our research since 2011. It covers which global problems are most pressing, how you can best contribute to solving these problems, and how to plan your career based on your individual strengths and situation.

It’s especially aimed at graduates aged 20-35 who want to ambitiously focus on social impact, though much of it is relevant more broadly.

Read our key ideas

Selected highlights

Problem profiles

The issue you choose to work on is probably the most important factor that determines the expected value of your career. If you want to maximise your chance of having a big positive impact, you should work on an issue that’s large in scale, solvable and neglected. Our problem profile series analyses a number of global problems in these terms.

Read problem profiles

Career reviews

The highest-impact careers are those which allow you to make the biggest contribution to solving the world’s most pressing problems. Our career review series investigates specific career paths that may do this.

See also our article on roles to consider if you have existing expertise.

Read career reviews

Podcast

Our podcast invites guests pursuing a wide range of career paths – from academics and activists to entrepreneurs and policymakers – to analyse the case for working on different issues, and provide concrete ways to help.

Listen to the podcast

Our old career guide

Between 2015 and 2017 we wrote a 12-part guide to many aspects of having a high impact career. Much of it no longer reflects our current views, but we expect you’ll still find parts of it useful:

Still have a question?

If you’re interested in working in one of our ‘priority paths’, or have other ideas about how to have a big impact on one of our top problem areas, our advising team might be able to speak with you one-on-one. They can help you consider your options, find job and funding opportunities, and make connections with others working on these issues.

Speak to our team

You can also post a question to our community on our LinkedIn group.