Why are you the best candidate for the job? How to answer U.N. interview questions successfully...

What kind of questions to prepare for an interview with the United Nations? How to answer the UN professionalism question and how to answer other competency based interview questions with the UN?

How to prepare for a Successful U.N. Interview - Insights from a former U.N. Senior Officer and Interview Panel Member.

What kind of questions to prepare for a UN interview?
What about written UN tests?
Why are you the best candidate?
How to answer United Nations professionalism questions?
Why are you the best candidate for the job?
Your motivation
What are the trends and real challenges in the field?
Have a particular story to demonstrate your skills and competencies.
Why each element of your CV contributes to this UN post.
What UN competency based questions can I expect and how to answer them?
What UN competency based team work questions can I expect?
Do I need to have a good and a bad example?
Do I need to have a bad team work example?
Your story should be clear, honest and based on a real life experience and cover UN competency related elements.
When talk about teamwork you want to talk about your role in the team but don’t forget the contributions of your team members.
What big mistakes some candidates made during UN interviews
Follow up questions at United Nations interview. What are the most common UN follow top questions?
Common questions and how to answer them?
How do you handle disagreements and conflict?
What are the lessons learned?
How were tensions resolved?

The United Career Coalition (UCC) aims to share knowledge, insights, tips & advice from those that have applied, interviewed and secured United Nations system roles!

At this webinar UCCs U.N. insider expert Mona Ali Khalil delivers advice on preparing for U.N. competency-based interview including:

· The tools and steps for optimum preparation
· The timing, setting and protocol of the U.N. interview
· The questions which will likely be asked
· The elements of an outstanding answer

Mona is a respected public international lawyer with 25 years of legal and diplomatic experience including as a former Senior Legal Officer in the United Nations and the IAEA. She is the Director of MAK LAW INTERNATIONAL – a strategic consulting service which advises governments and IGOs in the service of “We the Peoples”. She is an Affiliate of the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict and has a BA and MA in International Relations from Harvard University and an MS in Foreign Service and a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University.

Finding the ‘right’ intergovernmental organisation that matches your profile, education, skills and competencies, can lead to a fulfilling career where you get the chance to leave an important impact on the world. It means working with people from all over the world, getting to know different cultures and strengthening your multicultural team working skills while working on a good cause for human mankind and our planet.

At no stage will UCC or anyone associated with UCC guarantee to secure you a job at the UN; please be cautious with anyone that claims they can.