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How international organisations interview and test candidates, and how to prepare for each stage of the process.
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Read the vacancy notice for the stages it lists, prepare six real examples that show the competencies it names, and learn the organisation's mandate from its own publications. Expect a panel, possibly a written test, and a slow process. Check each detail with the organisation itself.
To prepare for an interview in a second language, write and rehearse your main answers aloud in that language, practise the follow-up questions as well as the answers, and learn a few phrases for asking for a repeat or finding a missing word. The CEFR scale for interviews shows what B1, B2 and C1 speakers can do.
A panel interview is a job interview with two or more interviewers. In the public-sector panels described here, members take turns asking set questions, note what you say, rate each answer on a fixed scale and then agree a score. Give one specific example per question, say what you did yourself, and treat a follow-up as a prompt.
The STAR method answers a competency-based interview question with one real example, told as the situation, your task, the actions you took and the result. FAO uses it, the UK Civil Service suggests it, and the UN's own guidance asks for situation, action and result. Keep the setting short and stop at about three minutes.
UN competencies are the behaviours a UN job opening asks you to show, such as the values and behaviours in the Secretariat's framework. To score your resume against one, list each competency, find a dated example for each and mark the gaps. Zorlya's score reads the work, the skills and the fit, not competencies, so check those lines yourself.
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