Work for Liberty: Pro-Liberty Organizations and Companies Are Hiring
Five online resources to help you find your dream employer.
“Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life,” so the saying goes. And there’s truth in it — wouldn’t you be much happier if you could work with pro-liberty people like yourself? Maybe even for the cause of promoting liberty?
Those opportunities exist. This post highlights resources to help you find them.
Talent Market
Talent Market is a recruiting agency for liberty; as far as I can tell it’s the largest. “Our mission is to promote liberty by providing talent for critical roles within the free-market nonprofit sector.” Clients include over a hundred pro-liberty organizations, so many that that site proudly posts their logos, and they include everything from familiar names like Reason, Cato, and FIRE, to many smaller groups.
So what kinds of jobs do they fill? The stated categories, including everything from junior level to executive level, are:
Academia
Administrative/operations
Communications/media
Development/fundraising
Event planning
Financial management/accounting
Human resources
Journalism/writing/editing
Legal
Marketing/market research
Outreach/advocacy
Policy/research
Project management
Senior executive management
Technology/web
And you may be able to do these jobs from home. I did a quick search on locations, expecting that most of them would require you to be located in the DC Beltway, but that was not the case. The largest category of jobs currently available by location was actually virtual jobs, and the rest were split pretty evenly between jobs in DC and those scattered around the rest of the country. Curious if any of their clients are located near you or near a place you want to be? They offer a handy map.
There are two ways to engage with Talent Market. The best way is probably to fill out their online form indicating your talents and interests — that way you’re on their radar. You can do this from the “send us your resume” link at the top of their homepage. The other way to engage is to periodically scan their searchable online job postings.
As if all that isn’t enough, Talent Market also offers ways to gain the skills and connections that would make you more likely to get hired, under the Resources tab of their site, which includes everything from training programs to networking groups to job-hunting advice.
Red Balloon
“Find a job that respects your values” are the words that greet you on the RedBalloon job board. “Over 2000 RedBalloon employers have taken our pledge to honor free speech and medical privacy.” This site isn’t so much about finding a job where your political positions matter as it is finding a job where they don’t matter. But these days, that counts as a pretty big win.
Their available jobs include pretty much anything you can think of, from nursing to accounting to manufacturing, construction, biotech, restaurants, education, the full gamut. Chances are they have a job for you.
Republican Jobs
Republican Jobs is another large recruiting agency that lists a spectrum of jobs, including full-time, part-time, and internships. While many of these are campaign-related, the site also offers jobs at pro-liberty non-profits. Job categories include:
Communications
Digital & creative
Fundraising & finance
Grassroots & mobilization
Legislative & policy
Political consulting roles
Data & analytics
GOP Jobs
GOP jobs is a job board focused on “digital gurus, communicators, and policy wonks.” Per its site, “GOP Jobs is a curated job board of the best jobs and freelancers in conservative and right-leaning politics.”
Interestingly, it also maintains a networking community in which candidates can interact directly with other candidates and potential employers — what a good idea. I took a quick look through available jobs, and while many were campaign-related, others were for pro-liberty non-profits. Job categories include:
Communications
Creative
Data
Digital
Policy
Political
Support
Conservative jobs
Per the Conservative Jobs website, “The Leadership Institute's ConservativeJobs.com is the one-stop shop for conservative job seekers and employers. Whether you are a polished executive or a young up-and-comer, ConservativeJobs.com works to help you find the right job in public policy, government, the news media, business, or on Capitol Hill. The Leadership Institute has placed more than 1,300 conservatives in more than 500 organizations nationwide.”
Pro-liberty website job listings
Pro-liberty organizations typically have job listings on their websites. Since that’s the easiest way for them to post jobs, it’s likely that jobs are posted there first.
For instance, as of publication, Reason has eight jobs listed, The Institute for Humane Studies has three, FIRE has nine, etc. You just have to go to the jobs or careers sections on these sites. Probably the best way to do this is to start by deciding which organizations you’d like to target. A good list of pro-liberty organizations, handily organized by focus, is available here with an accompanying map for locations.
LinkedIn
About half of all professional hiring uses LinkedIn during the process. It’s the dominant online platform for recruiting and if you’re serious about recruiters finding you, you really need to get a (free) account and get your resume in here.
But there’s much more you can do than post a resume. If you know the organizations you’re interested in you can follow them; you can join professional groups related to your talents and interests (recruiters look in these groups when scouting); you can fill out a form indicating what you’re looking for an receive emails with relevant job postings; and of course you can search their giant database of jobs yourself. LinkedIn has a particularly handy feature whereby you can enter an organization you’ve heard of, say Cato, and when you get to their page you also get a suggested list of similar organizations. This site is the largest database of jobs and hiring companies. It’s just too big to not take it seriously.
General job boards
I did a few searches in popular job boards like ZipRecruiter and SimplyHired, etc. The results here were thin, but I did find a few pro-liberty jobs at smaller organizations that as far as I could tell had not listed elsewhere. I wouldn’t spend a lot of time pursuing these sites for this particular focus, but they might be worth a quick scan. Likewise for using a search engine.
Remember: you have an edge with these employers
Any employer seeking new hires through one of these sources is making a deliberate point of finding staff who value liberty the same way they do.
Sometimes they do it because the mission of their organization is pro-liberty, and other times they do it just because they want to work with people who share their values.
Or maybe they had a bad experience with an aggressive leftist and they just want normalcy again. Who wouldn’t?
Regardless, they’re looking specifically for you. So why not sign up with one of these services and let them know you’re looking for them too?