What it is:
The UN Job List e-mail alert is sent on Saturdays and contains newly found jobs of the last week as well as the vacancies whose closing date is during the next week of jobs that match your search criteria.
The UN Job List e-mail alert is a good way to stay on top of jobs that interest you without having to bother checking every day.
How it works:
There are a lot of new vacancies in the UN System every week and most of them are not relevant for everybody. This is why the sign-up for the UN Job List starts with a search. I encourage experimenting with the search a little. If the search is too narrow most of your e-mail alerts will be quite short or even empty. Also, it’s a pity to miss out on jobs because the search is defined to narrow. On the other hand the full list is a bit too much.
Hint: Make sure that the organisations you are interested in provide the information that you search for. E.g if an organisation does not provide the Duty Station or the grade of posts, then that organization will never be included in the search results. You can easily check what information organisations provide by having a look at the vacancies listed at the organisation’s page on UN Job List.
If the search results seem to return an adequate number of jobs – keep in mind that there is a limit of maximum 100 jobs per newsletter – then sign-up for the alert by entering your e-mail in the box on the results page. You will receive a confirmation e-mail to confirm your e-mail address. Once your address is confirmed you will automatically get the UN Job List e-mail alert on Saturdays.
Hint: You can sign-up for more than one alert but you have to do it one by one. E.g. only after confirming the first e-mail alert you can sign-up for the second and so on.
I got to many requests to sign-up via a comment below so I deactivated the comments on this page. If you would like to leave a comment about the UN Job List, please visit this page and leave a comment there. Thanks.
6 Responses to “UN Job List: E-mail alerts”
on June 12th, 2007 at 8:05 am #
[...] Update 12-Jun-07: I wrote more about the UN Job List e-mail alerts here. Posted in UN Job List | [...]
its good
How to sign in as new comer to get updates?
Hi there,
to sign-up for the UN Job List e-mail alert is quite easy: Just define what you are interested in using the advanced search (http://unjoblist.org/lists/advancedsearch) and enter your email address on the results page. You will get the weekly alert on new jobs in your area of interest.
Please keep in mind that the UN Job List is a tool for job search – it is not a resource that would tell you where to apply for what. Working in the UN system myself I can only recommend to familiarize yourself with the organization, the job and the duty station very well before you apply. From time to time you get messages like “I would like to work for the UN in New York�. This is obviously not very helpful and if I get mails like this in my job I delete them immediately.
So where to start? Well, the websites of the organisations usually provide a “working with us� section that explains what the organization is looking for. Also, I can recommend finding out as much as possible about the mandate of the organisations before applying. Then, get informed about what is going on these days. Just one hint: UN Reform is a big topic in pretty much every organization I know. So get some ideas around the concept of UN reform. Think yourself about how you think the UN can contribute to a better world in future, how to balance the ideas and interests of the permanent members of the Security Council and the developing countries.
Keep in mind that the UN covers a very broad range of topics. Think about which topic you are most interested in and make sure you know all about that. Then look for the organization that covers that topic. These are just some initial thoughts on that and I’m sure that there is much more. Again, the most important thing is to be well informed before applying to anything.
on November 1st, 2008 at 6:40 pm #
[...] When I developed the newsletter system for the UN Job List I forecasted getting a few hundred subscribers but after only a few months of the e-mail alert system in place, I realize that I was wrong about that. Consequently I expanded the backend of my e-mail newsletter system to accommodate for the many subscribers on the UN Job List. I should have enough capacity for the weeks to come now. [...]
on August 30th, 2010 at 1:24 am #
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