Saturday, June 13, 2015

United Nations Jobs Guide - Job searching on Careers and Inspira

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Although they might be aggregated to other websites, the official UN Secretariat Job Openings are published on the Careers Portal. And, you can search for jobs using the Careers Portal or Inspira. Other web searches might land on the same jobs you will find here, but be careful to the quality of the job opening details on non-UN websites.

If you are interested and there is a link you will be redirected to Inspira, anyway. But to avoid being impressed by an overdue job advert found somewhere else, I would advice to bookmark and use Inspira directly. It’s up to you of course, and remember in Inspira you need to be logged, to have a personal profile, to be able to make your job searches.

But I guess you are not doing this for fun, so you will finally make a profile and apply. Both are equally good, Careers and Inspira Platforms, and use the same database. But, your options are different, as a Inspira user compared to simple Careers Platform visitor.

 In Inspira, you can: - track your applications; - track your roster memberships (and I think that we should have a lesson on roster memberships) - search jobs by criteria, not only by category; - very useful, save your search criteria as a Job Alert and have results sent to you periodically in an e-mail; - complete the application in advance, in draft mode, for potential future applications; - select and modify previous applications (if they are not sent and under review), and finally, and - create a new application when applying to a job opening using the apply now button.

And again, don’t forget, read carefully the applications.

It’s one important step some of us tend to take to easy. All the information there, you are going to use when completing your application. You will avoid in this way applying for posts for which you are not really qualified. (...) 

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