Landing Your Dream Job At The United Nations

This comprehensive eBook will help you land your dream job at the United Nations System. It will introduce you to the complex world of the United Nations and it will guide you through all the stages of the selection process. If you are seeking more information on how to kick-start your career with the United Nations, you have come to the right place! Working for an organization within the United Nations System is a dream for many professionals across the globe, since the opportunities offered often combine good remuneration and a wide range of benefits with meaningful work. As you go through the chapters of this eBook, you will be able to tell that the UN System offers work opportunities for professionals coming from very diverse academic backgrounds, therefore, the chances of you finding a vacancy that suits your profile are very high! Nonetheless, it is important that you know that selection processes to integrate the team of international organizations tend to be quite competitive and, for this reason, a strong preparation is key for those who want to succeed. Our team is certain that you want to be amongst the successful candidates and this is exactly why OpenIGO Network has put this eBook together: to help you land the job of your dreams. As we move on through the different stages of the application process, this manual will offer you preparation tips as well as detailed explanations and guidance for each stage – it will introduce you to the United Nations as the complex international organization it is and its organizational culture and values; it will teach you how to prepare your online application in detail, give you insight on where to look for vacancies and will also get you ready for the competency based interview. This manual was written and revised by a team of Ph.D. professors, human resources specialists and intergovernmental organization staff with a great deal of diligence.

This 30-day guide takes you step-by-step through the process of identifying, selecting and applying for opportunities in the International Development sector. More than your average guide, it provides practical examples and tips, increases your knowledge base through carefully selected articles and videos and give you assignments to help solidify the knowledge you have gained. You can work through the guide as many times as you wish, until you have achieved the desired result.

Beat out Straight A students · Add quality achievements on your resume · Obtain valuable character references · Save yourself from what could be a lifetime of frustration in a job or industry that does not meet your expectations · Volunteer smarter, not HARDER and do some problem BASHING! · You deserve a copy of this book! "If you're serious about landing a career and being successful, then make sure to read this book. Every school in America should make this book mandatory reading for their students!" - James Malinchak, Contributing Editor Best-Selling Book CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE COLLEGE SOUL Project Sledgehammer, a project of Career Volunteering is a mix of inspiration, motivation, personal stories & goal setting guidelines that offers young adults Career Volunteering opportunities in pursuit of "self-directing" their lives and maximizing their career potential. "Project Sledgehammer is a unique opportunity every student should explore to decide on their field before graduating!" - Tanya Brown Nicole Brown Simpson's Youngest Sister Co-founder, Nicole Brown Charitable Foundation Professional Speaker: Specializing in Life Solution and Relationship Violence Prevention College Student Career Volunteers gain valuable real world experience, resume experience and important character references. If you have experience on their resume, aren't you more likely to get hired?! While doing Career Volunteer work pertaining to your curriculum, add a quality achievement to your resume and beat out students with higher grades! "How important is it for students to get internships, volunteer, or co-op, BEFORE they graduate? Basically, I believe it's more important than graduating with honors or at the top of your class. So, my advice to you is get an internship, volunteer, and/or co-op immediately, like Career Volunteering!" - Joe Martin, America's Top Motivational Professor Author of the Top Selling Books TRICKS OF THE GRADE DECIDE OR DIE: Mastering The Five Most Critical Decisions Of Your Life With all of the negativity bearing down on young adults these days, Stefanick's first book captures why America's youth should contribute and make a difference in their college and hometown communities. Many Career Volunteering opportunities actually save lives. "Project Sledgehammer has DEPTH!" - "Extreme Mike" McKeller, Nationally Recognized Speaker Host: Emmy Nominated Adventure Shows that aired on PBS Mark's decided that involving young adults as everyday heroes with Project Sledgehammer can prod the human race to evolve ONE person at a time. Take a step into a larger world. Read this book & rally to a cause inspired by "FIGHT CLUB!"

This book is more than an autobiographical account of the career of a young graduate from Australia who spent his life working as a United Nations official. It is in fact, a critical, indispensable debriefing of a UN insider’s account as it follows the life of a development practitioner for more than three decades within the global aid sector. It also goes where few others have dared to go before, providing first-hand insights into the realities of a UN career official’s life. While many throughout the world may wish to join the “UN family” or have already become part of the development sector, it is presumed they all have a vision to act as vehicles for positive social change. However, expectations can and may differ once realities have sunk in. The book opens a unique space in the international aid sector – particularly, population security – around elements of personal and professional rewards and costs.

Contrary to what students, and society, are conditioned to think, obtaining a college degree does not automatically result in a job, let alone a dream career. In the last year, alone, half of college graduates are either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. Authors Tori Randolph Terhune, a gainfully-employed young college graduate herself, and Betsy A. Hays, a college professor, show readers what they can do in college to successfully pave the way for future employment in Land Your Dream Career. The authors provide eleven easy-to-follow strategies for effectively using time on campus to start building a career. Terhune and Hays leads students through content designed to help students set themselves up for success, without focusing on grades or papers. The 11 steps include tips about how students can become experts in their fields, build their brand, get involved in and outside the classroom, allow for wiggle room, network, follow the 75/25 rule (75% thinking, 25% doing) and use new media, such as social networking and blogging, to launch their career. Any student looking for that connection from college to getting to their dream career needs to read Land Your Dream Career. Terhune and Hays make it known that landing a good job is not impossible!

The American claim that we should love and be passionate about our job may sound uplifting, or at least, harmless, but Do What You Love exposes the tangible damages such rhetoric has leveled upon contemporary society. Virtue and capital have always been twins in the capitalist, industrialized West. Our ideas of what the “virtues” of pursuing success in capitalism have changed dramatically over time. In the past, we believed that work undertaken with an ethos of industriousness promised financial stability and basic comfort and security for our families. Now, our working life is conflated with the pursuit of pleasure. Fantastically successful—and popular—entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey command us. “You’ve got to love what you do,” Jobs tells an audience of college grads about to enter the workforce, while Winfrey exhorts her audience to “live your best life.” The promises made to today’s workers seem so much larger and nobler than those of previous generations. Why settle for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage and a perfectly functional eight-year-old car when you can get rich becoming your “best” self and have a blast along the way? But workers today are doing more and more for less and less. This reality is frighteningly palpable in eroding paychecks and benefits, the rapid concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny few, and workers’ loss of control over their labor conditions. But where is the protest and anger from workers against a system that tells them to love their work and asks them to do it for less? While winner-take-all capitalism grows ever more ruthless, the rhetoric of passion for labor proliferates. In Do What You Love, Tokumitsu articulates and examines the sacrifices people make for a chance at loveable, self-actualizing, and, of course, wealth-generating work and the conditions facilitated by this pursuit. This book continues the conversation sparked by the author’s earlier Slate article and provides a devastating look at the state of modern America’s labor and workforce.

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This comprehensive eBook will help you land your dream job in the international development sector. It will introduce you to the complex world of international organizations and it will guide you through all the stages of their selection processes. If you are looking for information on how to kick-start your career with an international organization, you have come to the right place! Working for an organization in the field of international development is a dream for many professionals across the globe, since the opportunities offered often combine good remuneration and a wide range of benefits with meaningful work. As you go through the chapters of this eBook, you will be able to tell that the field of international development has work opportunities for professionals coming from very diverse academic backgrounds, therefore, the chances of you finding a vacancy that suits your profile are very high! Nonetheless, it is important that you know that selection processes to integrate the team of international organizations tend to be quite competitive and, for this reason, a strong preparation is key for those who want to succeed. Our team is certain that you want to be amongst the successful candidates and this is exactly why OpenIGO Network has put this eBook together: to help you land the job of your dreams. As we move on through the different stages of the application process, this manual will offer you preparation tips as well as detailed explanations and guidance for each stage – it will introduce you to International Development; it will show you the different opportunities with different types of organizations, give you insight on where to look for vacancies and will also get you ready for competency-based interviews. This manual was written and revised by a team of Ph.D. professors, human resources specialists and intergovernmental organization staff with a great deal of diligence.