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1. Introduction: Hi, I'm area 22-year-old
professional working in environmental policy with a slight obsession
with productivity. By slight, I mean about
when I was at uni, I will cut between 57
every day without an alarm to go to the gym and start
my uni work by eight, most people thought I
was bordering insane. But it did teach me
some great life skills, which I would like to pass
on to other people for my Skillshare classes and
my one-to-one coaching. Today, my main goal is to
share all the learnings, again, from applying
for a UN internship, being successful,
and subsequently helping with recruitment at
the UN Environmental Program.
2. Project: Your project for this
class will be to prepay CV for VU and check for
each of your experience, right then three bullet points using action verbs
of what you did. If you do not have
any experiences, fan prepare a list of what
experiences you could collect and what you
would want to gain from.
3. Prepping your experience: In turns at the UN, have a wide range
of experiences. However, some patterns
can be found. If you want to know you dream team's favored
intern pattern, you can simply stalk
them on LinkedIn. From my experience, I would
recommend you'll see VII to include one social
media experience. To do so, you could
volunteer for local charity, participate in a
society marketing team, or even get paid for it for
a job fat on the website, find your intern, I
really recommend that. And then wanting
work experience, it can be included in the social media
experience you already had, but also through Teams spores, working with a team
in a restaurant. If you make it sound good, I'll make you shine. Finally, at least one experience related to begin department
you're applying for. For instance, if
you're applying for the UN Environmental Program. So I'm experienced
of sustainability. It can literally be trying
to plant sustainable garden. It can be Student's
Society, a charity. It could be litter
picking in your town, or I'd recommend also
taking part in younger, which is a worldwide
remote group, youth group, I think
around the environment. If we added bonus, would be experienced
with you and terms and you in acronyms. So for instance, for noon
modal United Nation, or previous intra chip at an entity which already
worked with the UN, that would be very good.
4. Prepping your studies: To Internet the UN, you do not need a
specific degree. However, applicants with a master's degrees
often favored. Additionally, any degree could play in your favor
if you're able to showcase experience
in communications and un unrelated topics. If it's not in
your degree title, make sure turn to lining from dropping the
English name of your module and linking it
to the job description. For instance, you could say the social media communications
module allowed me to understand the ins and outs
of Instagram and Facebook.
5. Application Process: Why is the process like, first, you find your
preferred job or jobs. To do that, you go on you and jobs and filter by preferences. As a heads-up voice in Geneva, New York will be the
most competitive. If you're willing to go, you'd have more chance applying for a job in Nigeria,
for instance. And there's still a
massive headquarter them. Then you go through the
online application portal. If everything prepare is still
should take a few hours. Self, you sell yourself while, but keep it simple for those who are reviewing it or
reviewing it manually. Often a member of a
team that does not work in HR and has plenty
of other things to do. And when you've crammed for 100, you kinda craving
for simplicity. If you pass that stage, you will then be asked
to take a written test. This changes for every
single position, but it's quite simple to
guess most of the time. I'll get into that
in the next section. Once you go to the next stage, you'll be facing interview. First or the last point
of view doesn't matter. So do not hesitate to take
the slot best suits you best. To focus a bit on the
online application. For the CV, you won't
be able to upload one. You'll have to type it out
with a reference for each, make it short and snappy and relate it to the
ductus corrosion. I would say no
Melvin free lines, each starting with
an action verb. You can easily find
them on the Internet. Just type CV action verb, and also add keywords
of a job description. Because often there's so
little time to look at actual application that people read it really quickly and
just focus on this key verb. So I've been know is important. For the cover letter. It's important. They sound like you know what department
you're applying for. No need to write ten pages on the entire history
of a department who entire love for it. Like some kind of really
hyped up movie. That's fine. If you keep it really
short a few sentences, but we'll say your why, why the event and all that specific department
in a few sentences, as I said, can be
specific statistic value. Read the quote, movie or documentary and life
experience of MA, do you want me to leave out? Don't Save and you
only reason is the CV. But you can mention later on, but you think it will help you advance your
career in this domain. Just pay out that. Everyone knows that
the UN sounds good. But if it's the only reason and venue or competing
against a 100 people who actually seem interested in the work rather than
the name of it. I don't think you'll
stand much of a chance. Then you have to try and show each of the tasks slash requirements are
met by application. Again, no need to give enough a massive list of
education or experience, but you've just
given prove a CV. The way the people reading, read it is about cover
letter comes first, the CV comes second. And then usually
there's a question to ask you if you match the
experience required. So like everything is
in the same document. I don't need to
read it 40 times. I usually get it
refers them every day. I'm expecting to
find it in the CV. So that's fine. What I would do is make it really easy for
the person reading. The job description, asked for two years experience, say, well, I have two years experience in communications to
invest in this and this. And this is exactly what you'd
like me to do in that job. Or I have experienced
doing this. I don't have
experienced inverse, but I've taken a course, something like that because
it just makes for job of a person ratings
so much easier and that's really how
you want it to go. Finally, the online test. The thing I think people
don't really know about, but it's actually quite easy to find out what
the test would be. It's probably none of the
tasks of the job description. So look at the job
description and look at the kind of tasks that seem really important for that job. And you can probably
expect to do a mock one. Of course. If you're applying
for an internship, social media, you have
to write a few posts, but it's quite easy to
replicate if you're applying an internship in statistics, you may we not going
to be asked to create an entire model and the
time that you're given. But get a feel for what
exactly the core of a job is. Probably good selfie
quite close to that. So it's quite hard to prepare because obviously you don't know exactly
what the question is, but I think making
sure that you know the tone of the department
you're applying for, for that kind of task
is really important. So if you know about your job, description is more
around policy, then look ever
publications for preset, look at the website article. Look at the different
talks about they've had job you're applying for is more on the social
media side. Look at Twitter. Do they use emoji? What kind of ash? Hashtags of ease, what kind of formulation of things to be used on topics of a focus on where do you news articles
seemed to come from? All of that is really important.
6. Interview: Hey, we'll interview term first. Relax. Honestly, most teams will just be as excited as you
are to meet you. So just appeared joyful but
humble and most importantly, a team player and you're golden. I love the urine work
is done in teams. So be careful to not talk only as if you're not able to
share workload where Bubba, if you're saying I even ask Dean question and people
are going to start thinking, well, does she know
how to work in a team and work at the UN
is very team-based. Second, practice star, answers, situation, task,
action, and result. Do not forget results in if you want to
charge them even more, you have to add an L for learnings and explain what you took away from
this experience. Make it structured so
that you're clear and you don't go off on two
hours worth of tangent. But make sure it's
still sounds casual. So what I would do is to know your storyline of your actions so well that you could
say in different words, but still with the same
structure every time. That makes you sound schedule. Why would practice for
most is your introduction. That's like the first few
minutes while you can really make the best
impression possible. I would first introduce myself. My passion for what
the team does, no need for heartbroken
and speech. And just say how it aligns with your
overall professional goal. At the end of the day, people employing you also want
to help your future goals. What you've done so far academically and
professionally and how you think you can help then come
the behavior questions, which are quite easy to guess because actually
usually they're listed. Say things like teamwork, communication, that
kind of thing. And again, just pink
star, star, star.
7. Making the most of it + Conclusion: Now it's time to
make the most of it. I would start by clearing, clearly mapping, mapping out
your goals forever falling. Question. One, what can a friend's
such connections to? I want to have in six months, this will indicate
how you carry out your social relationships
in the workplace. To what kind of references do I want to see written
in six months? This will underline
what qualities you have to make
sure shine for free. What do I want to be written
on my CV in six months? This will guide the
type of work you all hospital wherever your
job description says. Once you've carried
out post-task, feel free to ask for
more unfulfilled, are interested in full, high. Do I want to add value? This will drive how you
will be remembered. For instance, you have seen, but they could use a
YouTube channel revamp and you're talented graphic
designer tried to do that. You said that there
are no intern groups and you're very good
with people. Create one. Once you've gotten those
questions answered, also, make a list of connections
you'd like to make and set up a call with them
to introduce yourself. Every two weeks, review the goals that
you've just written down and make
personal to-do list to make sure you stick to them. Now we're at the end. So thank you so much for following along with
this lesson and congrats to you for taking the first steps
towards you un dream. You see. If you still feel like you
need some extra guidance. Please contact me at becoming one.co at gmail.com
to book a CV and cover letter consultation on interview practice
until next time.
Ari BecomingMon, Find your inner mon
