How to start a career at the United Nations (UN)?
Get insights from a senior UN expert & certified coach on UN skills, communication styles, work culture & opportunities.
Description
This course aims to address the lack of knowledge about how to enter United Nations (U.N.) system organisations and offers advice to enable everybody interested in a career with the U.N. to access information about the different recruitment, application, interview and selection processes as well as to help get U.N. system related questions answered.
Finding the ‘right’ U.N. system organisation that matches ones profile, skills and competencies, can lead to a fulfilling career where one can get the chance to leave an important impact on the world. It means working with people from all over the world, getting to know different cultures and strengthening ones multicultural team working skills while working on a good cause for human mankind and our planet.
Gaining a job at the United Nations however isn’t like most professions and requires some thought around how to build ones experience and skills to a desired role and how to prepare for the sometimes rather complex and time-consuming application and interview process.
Having worked for the U.N. for over a decade and being familiar with the U.N. values, processes, structures as well as communication guidelines, I provide expert advice on how to best prepare for an international career with an intergovernmental organisation like the U.N., the World Bank as well as International Development Banks.
Thank you very much for your interest in this course.
What You Will Learn!
- Identify skills and experience needed for a United Nation career (U.N. careers)
- Learn how to read U.N. vacancies and how to spot relevant key words, U.N. core values and skills
- Gain insights on how to start a U.N. career and the different ways into the U.N. system
- Learn how to make your application documents and U.N. cover letter stand out
- Understand how the U.N. application, recruitment and U.N. interview process works
- Learn how to prepare for a successful competency based interview with the U.N.
- Gain insights in the methods, tools and steps for optimum preparation for a career with the United Nations
- Gain an understanding of common U.N. interview questions and how to answer U.N. interview questions
Who Should Attend!
- Everyone interested in a career with an intergovernmental organisation like the United Nations is welcome to join this course, from students, to recent graduates to mid career professionals interested in a career change from the private to the public sector.
- Mid career professionals interested in a career change from the private to the public sector
- International relations or international development sutudents
- Recent graduates
- Everyone interested in a U.N. internship