NYLESA was established under the UN Dual Career and Staff Mobility programme. The aim of this programme originally was to assist globally-mobile families adapt to new duty stations and to help expatriate spouses/partners find jobs and maintain their professional careers. 

Since this programme is no longer available, NYLESA continues to collaborate with different UN Agencies and Departments to provide different types of spouse support.  

Check out our Career Resource page for extensive resources to help you find and prepare for UN opportunities. 

If you are interested in working for the UN, make sure you understand first the basics about the UN system.  Also check out Sebastian Rottmair’s Blog “About job hunting for UN jobs” on the UN Job List.

All the UN jobs are gathered into one place on the UN Job List. Try  https://jobs.unicsc.org/  or   http://unjoblist.org/lists/

*Additional UN Job Links:

 Each UN System organization has also their own vacancy pages, where you can find the job openings but also the information how to apply for the jobs.

The five UN System organizations in New York are;

  

Competency-based resumes and interviews.

 If you want to work for the UN, you might be required to take a competency interview.  Check out this interesting introductory youtube video on how to prepare for a Competency-based interviews. A full video course is available here. See the first page under Career Support for documentation on competency-based resumes and interviews.

 Short Term Vacancies and Consultancies at UN

 UN HQ sends, via the Spouse Support Programme, its external open short term and consultancy vacancies to spouses on their SSP mailing-list and to Nylesa members. UNICEF also does the same with their short term vacancies. Join NYLESA to be able to benefit from these services.All Professional Positions of 1 year or more in the Secretariat are advertised at http://careers.un.org; this is the one stop shop for additional information on compensation, interviewing techniques and all other career related matters.  To be considered for a General Service or ‘G’ position, you need to take the ASAT exam.   This is currently being run twice a year for spouses only.  For more details, check out:

 Here, you’ll also find info. about the

Language Competitive Exam – for language professionals (interpreters, translators etc) – https://careers.un.org/lbw/home.aspx?viewtype=LE

See these links to Social Media on UN career matters
http://www.facebook.com/UN.Careers
http://twitter.com/un_careers
http://linkd.in/un_careers