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How to get a job in the UN?

Can an American get a job with the UN?

  • Is it possible for an American citizen to get a job working for the UN FAO? I'm interested in a job with the UN FAO in Rome. I was recently told by someone who had worked for the FAO that as an American citizen, there was no chance that I would be hired regardless of experience/suitability, and in fact, that in the particular FAO program I'm interested in, the only people hired come from a specific region of the world because the countries in that region of the world provide most/all of the funding for the program. At the request/suggestion of the program head, I plan to submit an application for a position regardless, but I'm curious if this an accurate depiction of either official or unofficial hiring practices at the UN FAO? If it pertains, this is a relatively modest position but doing work that I am very excited about.

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    I can't help the poster, but it must be this UN Agency, http://www.fao.org/.

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My understanding that was unless you have a seriously compelling proposition (famous outside your field) UK/US nationals have virtually no chance at all of a job with a UN body. Most UN organisations apparently run a http://www.fao.org/VA/non_rep_en.htm That said, accoridngly to that list as at Nov 09, the USA was under represented apparently so, perhaps this will work in your favour?

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