The UN Job List has an elaborated system to automatically update the job database with UN vacancies every 24 hours. However, I noticed in the past months that there are some smaller pages that manually publish a vacancy every now and then. From a technical point of view it is very hard to track these pages systematically. First it is quite cumbersome to write a robot for each of these pages and secondly the fact that the publishing happens manually decreases the chances of the robot to extract the job data completely. Second, not every HR person always has access to a perfect Vacancy system on the respective organisation’s web page.

I have thus decided to add a place where authorized HR colleagues can manually add vacancies to the UN Job List.

In order to test this feature I’m looking for some HR colleagues whose vacancies are currently not on the UN Job List and who would like to publish their organisation’s vacancies on the UN Job List. This offer is explicitly open to UN Projects as long as the contracts advertised are UN contracts. If in doubt, just contact me. Needless to say that there are – as always when dealing with the UN Job List – no costs involved which holds true for the organization and for all the UN Job List users.

So let’s get started: You work in HR? Please leave a comment below. I will not publish it and get back to you via e-mail.
(If you are not in HR and would like to leave a general comment, please leave that comment here – thanks!)

This is strictly beta and more for the geeks but I was playing with the Intel Mashmaker yesterday and did a little mashup with Google Maps and the UN Job List.
How it works? Install the Mashmaker extension for your browser, Visit the UN Job List UNOPS Job page and see the map unfold.
This is really just a little fun project and if you have a cool mashup for me – let me know!

Well, that was quite fast and thanks for the support!

UNOPS Jobs are online again.

Looking for UN Jobs? Great, just make sure, you check the UNOPS jobs on the UNOPS homepage, too. I just noticed that new UNOPS jobs are currently not imported into the UN Job List. Sorry for that. I’m working on it and hope to resolve it soon…

Another quick update (and yes, I know that the fix for the robots of UNFPA, ITU and UNRWA is still pending) but here goes. I got the request to add an RSS feed that for new jobs only (similar to the new UN Jobs page that I have). The RSS feed is now here: http://unjoblist.org/lists/organisation/newjobs/feed.

Enjoy and let me know if there are any issues.

PS: Thanks to Steve for pointing that out!

Just a quick update to let you all know that I fixed the UNHCR robot now, too. As of now you should find your UNHCR Vacancies again on the UN Job List.

Last week I received a comment from a colleague telling me that a vacancy in ILO is not in the UN Job List. I checked what happened and discovered that the ILO changed their vacancy web page which caused a robot failure in the UN Job List. I fixed the UN Job List robot for the ILO now and started a review of all UN Job List robots. During this process I discovered that the ITU, UNFPA, UNHRC and UNRWA pages have changed, too. I will fix these robots as soon as I can but if you are interested in vacancies of these organizations, please check their vacancy pages directly. I will notify you once these vacancies are added to the UN Job List again.

There are two things that you all could help me with. First, if you know of any vacancies that are publicly posted and don’t appear on the UN Job List, please let me know so I can check my robots (and add pages if needed). Second, please let me know if you know that your organization changes (or changed) their vacancy pages. This way I can quickly check my robots.

And big thanks to the tipster for the ILO vacancy…

Recently I have been receiving quite a few questions on two aspects of the UN Job List. The first is how to add the UN Job List to the personal Google Homepage. The process is quite simple. Like pretty much all things on the UN Job List it starts with a UN Job List Search. Make sure that the results show the kinds of jobs you are interested in. If there are no results, check for spelling mistakes (you won’t belief home many people are wondering why the search for ‘narobi’ is not returning any meaningful results).

Then on the results page scroll down until you find the “Add this result page to Google” button. Click the button and choose “Add to Google Homepage”. That’s all.

On the result page you will also find the opportunity to enter your e-mail to sign-up for the weekly UN Job List e-mail alert. The game is the same: Search for the jobs that seem to be appealing to you, watch for spelling mistakes and enter your e-mail on the result page. Confirm your e-mail and your are all setup.

Edit: PLEASE read the text above if you want to sign up! Leaving a comment in my blog is NOT the right way of signing up for an UN Job List e-mail alert.

PS: I disabled comments here since there are (and most likely will be more) people who don’t care to read and spam me with comments like “I would like to sign up”… If you have a real comment, please leave it in the post on UN Job List Feedback – thanks!

I’m happy to announce that the migration to an upgraded server is now complete and everything is humming along nicely. There are a couple of background tasks still to be done but that should not really affect the UN Job List.
I have about a week time now and I’m looking into some of the suggestions for improvements I received over the past weeks. And while I’m at it, why not pile more on it. So please let me know

• Any organization that I might miss out. Sometimes local offices have their own vacancy pages and it is tricky to get them all
• Any errors or inconveniences on the page that you encounter
• Any other improvements that you could see from a technical point

Thanks a lot,
Sebastian

It is less than half a year ago since the UN Job List received 100.000 hits and now the page passed the 500.000 hits mark. With users spending an average of 5 minutes and 13 seconds on the UN Job List and a constantly growing number of visitors the UN Job List seems to satisfy an existing need for both UN staff and people who actively want to contribute the goals of the United Nations.