United Nations Reviews

Pros

Feeling of contributing to great causes.

Cons

Not enough potential for growth.

Advice to Management

Expand entry-level position program.

Pros

It helps you to improve and grow in your field

Cons

It is a commission based jobs and thats

Advice to Management

This job should not be a commission based job only!

Pros

The United Nations promotes the highest of ideals with a purposeful and essential mission. You will have a nice salary and excellent benefits as a professional staff member, but unfortunately young staffers and contractors have little job security. You may also be lucky enough to have incredible colleagues from all over the world, and a select few are doing the best they can to help implement positive reforms in a mostly...

Cons

Mostly incompetent middle managers and even some senior staff, little to no job security for consultants and contractors which are heavily overused, excessive wasteful spending, paralyzing bureaucracy, little accountability and transparency, slow recruitment process with little to no feedback if you’re lucky enough to get any at all, political dysfunction largely due to member states, hundreds of harassment cases every...

Advice to Management

Completely reform all HR policies and practices, speed up recruitment process by using talent pools, recognize and reward high performers, fire chronic abusers and incompetent senior managers, bring in external talent instead of recycling incompetent leaders, transform the toxic culture, bring in an external consulting company and reform the entire system from top to bottom.

Pros

Ability to work in an international environment with colleagues from all around the world; good benefits; opportunity to work/ interact with high level government officials and high level people from other industries

Cons

Still pretty bureaucratic and there is a sense of hierarchy based on the position

Pros

Great environment, you learn a lot from fellow coworkers, good perks.

Cons

A lot of politics involved.

Pros

Some amazing experiences along the years, public relations work, emergency disaster and relief work, organizational modernization for foresee able future. Participation and contributing to causes for the benefit of all mankind

Cons

Lack of career advancements for staff, antiquated and obsolete HR policies, gross lack of business contingency and continuity planning, gross lack of compassion for staff well being, extremely bureaucratic, too much governed by member states.

Advice to Management

The greatest irony of it all is here is the only organization on the planet that is actively championing equality, human rights , progress of standards of living and the eradication of poverty for all mankind amongst other things, but in reality suffers from a gross lack of compassion or objectiveness for its own staff. Have the senior members ever heard of the phrase " Charity start from the home"

Pros

Sense of impact, possibility to work in global current affairs and meet global leaders

Cons

Frustrating in the longer run

Pros

Great benefits! Amazing colleagues, interesting work.

Cons

Mobility is limited. Finding new opportunities is difficult.

Advice to Management

Reform and overhaul HR policies.