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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Inspira Careers Home Page

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We have already briefly explored UN Careers. Basically here we find jobs offered by the United Nations Secretariat. Not the agencies, not NGO-s, not any other international organization.

And If I was not very clear before, I want to make it clear. The 44,000 civilian staff I was referring to is only the part under the umbrella of the UN Secretariat. It sounds a lot but compared with the operations it’s not that much.

Here on the Careers Portal you are going to find also general information about UN, UN’s operations, careers in the United Nations, and self explanatory showcases of UN staff members telling the story of their recruitment and career.

On the Home Page you will find also a language button to display the contents on the Careers Portal in French or English. The most important sections of the site, and I invite you to explore them, are the one about UN career options and the job search engine.

Very simple, the job search functions like this: Input a category. Say professional. P3 - level. On management and operations support, Human Resources Family. Leave all at Department/Office menu. And, don’t change the rest if you have no preferences. Click search and you will have your results.

You can choose your own preferences and you can also create alerts. But for this we need to go to Inspira. You see that you don’t need to have a profile to search for jobs, you will be redirected to Inspira to apply.

Click for example on the first result and you will be redirected to a window that describes the job. And we are going to discuss job descriptions in a later lesson. You have here the option to apply or to e-mail to a friend if you might have one interested.

If you click “Apply now” you will see the Inspira login window. You can register, by pressing “Register Now”, Contact the admins or change to French and back. If you have therefore a login you don’t need one

Next we are going to discuss registration, login and support. For now let’s use one random ID and see how the landing page looks, after login. The landing page will be different if you choose apply now and continue. But let’s see this one for now.

 You have a simple menu bar with “Favorites” where you would normally find your [alerts] and “Main Menu” which can take you to “Learning”, “Jobs” or “Rosters”. You have a “Basic Job Search” with links to “Advanced Search” and “Job Alerts”. You have also a “Consultant Opportunities” Section if you are interested. And your list of “Latest applications”.

You can use “Career Tools” to create a draft application, but this we are going to do together in a different lesson. If still in doubt you can consult the “Quick Help Links” see the Manuals or seek assistance for technical issues.

Not a fancy page for an important reason. This is for people living in the whole world, so it’s designed to be useful for low-speed as much as for high speed networks.

Search will work the same as before, we are not going to see that again. If you click on your applications you can see them, without having the possibility to change once sent.

Next, we are going to register, see how login and incidents are managed in inspira.

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