UN Job List: FAQ for HR colleagues
August 8th, 2007
How does my organisation benefit from the UN Job List?
The UN Job Lists serves tens of thousands of pages every week to tousands of interested candidates all over the world. The UN Job List e-mail alert reaches several thousand subscribers every week and the UN Job List provides easy to handle search and sophisticated RSS feeds that help qualified applicants to find your vacancy.
Especially smaller organisations considerably benefit from the UN Job List as the accessibility to job advertisements increase significantly. Also, if you are looking for a specialist that you normally not recruit frequently the UN Job List helps you finding that specialist.
How does the UN Job List work?
The UN Job Lists visits your organisation’s vacancy page daily and checks your advertisements. There is nothing you (or anybody else) have to do to update the UN Job List.
I just posted a vacancy. Why is it not on UN Job List yet?
It should be there within 24 hours. If it is not please let me know and I will follow up.
My organisation is not listed on the UN Job List yet. What can I do?
This situation is very rare. In any case, please let me know and I will add your organisation if you are member of the UN family.
There is a vacancy listed on UN Job List that I would like to take off. How do I do that?
Just let me know which one and I will make sure it is gone. Please also take it off your vacancy page at the same time.
I like the UN Job List, what can I do to help?
Just let me know if there are issues – that is a lot of help already. Also, please don’t change your page layout or structure often – that is more work to keep the robots running. If you consider redesigning your page there are some very simple things you can do to make it easier for the UN Job List (like a good table structure, a nice XML feed, no manual system etc.) just ask me I’ll let you know. And lastly – let your colleagues know about UN Job List.
What is the cost?
It’s free. There are NO costs for the organisations that are listed on the UN Job List and there are NO costs for the users using it. It is entirely free.
Why do you do this? What is in it for you?
It is a fun project and I think I can help providing this service. The story on how it started is that I have a very good friend that searched a job in the UN once and helping that friend, I became frustrated with the job searching options that exist so far. So I started programming this site.
At the same time professionally, I’m not satisfied with the return rate and the qualification that some vacancies yield. Also, most of the exceptionally good candidates don’t want to spend month’s worth of effort on a job search, they rather get their job done. So I thought that a more efficient matching of vacancies and applicants is helping both sides.
Please leave a comment if you have any further questions below. The comments are moderated so you can contact me without having a comment published. Just let me know where to reach you and I will get back to you.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:22 pm
hello. what is an L3 international contract?. what is the difference with a P3 international contract?
thanks
Carlos Cortes
Bissau
October 15th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Quite impressive. I blogged it to share the info:
http://fredsitblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/working-for-un.html
Hope you will find your ideal job in the UN.
Take care,
Fred - Geneva
January 7th, 2008 at 12:34 am
thanks sebeatian
April 9th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Hi Sebastian,
many thanks for this usefull site!
Hope to find my job in kenya!
Walter
Austria
May 13th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Very impressive website.
Please can explain what an L4 level is, or where I can look up the different levels/grades.
Thanks
Kym
August 6th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I found your website extremely useful. Thanks very much for the time and effort.
best,
Zenobia
December 4th, 2008 at 5:27 am
I agree with your assessment of the difficult UN job search process. Thank you for making it a little easier.
_Wade
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Please I shall be very grateful if you can explain to me the UN contract categories, that is, the P1 to 4. What do they represent? What qualifications are needed for the various categories/grades?
March 10th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
thank you with this search process.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Does your site pick up UN job announcements on general job search sites? ie devex.com, global health.com. Recommend any such external sites to post?
Thank you,
Andrew
March 20th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Dear Andrew,
the site picks up only the directly advertised jobs on the UN sites themselves. The reason is that I want to avoid duplicates by all means (that is also the reason you won’t find the PAHO here, their jobs are also advertised by WHO and thus I only list the WHO vacancies. This is similarly to UNV and UNDP etc).
Does this answer your question?
April 30th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
what is an L3 international contract?. what is the difference with a P3 international contract?
thanks
May 13th, 2009 at 11:08 am
hey,
let me know what the codes represent and their qualifications.otherwise your work is impressive.be blessed.
yours winnie
August 12th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Dear Sebastian
Quite impressive the work and your efforts to bring some light in this impossible mess of HR and categories/steps/grades… non ending!
However, there is still the shadow of the DPKO conditions and status. Could you clarify me what kind of conditions have the staff of DPKO? are they equal to volunteers of UNV? and what are exactly the common rules for the volunteers?
Thank you so much,
Zazou
August 16th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Hi Zazou,
sorry, I’m not quite sure about that myself (keep in mind this is a hobby and I’m not in any official function hosting this website). But please do let me know if you find out, so that we can share the knowledge with others, too. Thanks!
Sebastian
January 9th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
hi sebastian, i am frequently using this page and it has been very helpfull in reducing my time searching suitable vacancies.
A BIG THANK YOU!
Sebastian
January 15th, 2010 at 10:55 am
Hi,
I would like to apply for a job with the U.N., but i like to know “what does P-5, P-3, D-1 etc under the Grade/Level Column in the U.N. Job Vacancies advert means?”
Thanks.
Philip Onihana
February 12th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Hi Philip, check out the blog here, there is an article about your questions.