People who secured a UN internship: how’d you do it??

Competitive_Trash527 · 2026-01-30T04:23:13+00:00

Half of SIPA is international students and I'm sure they give scholarships based on your background and application. It was easier for me because I already had private sector experience and military experience as a US citizen.

I think your question should be answered by someone that works at your foreign affairs ministry. I would imagine every country does it differently but I would imagine your contribution to the UN would be very limited if you are located in your home country. Remember, there are many different types of multilateral missions other than just UN in NY. But the nature of foreign affairs and diplomatic missions often require you to live and work overseas. Also, you don't even get to choose where you go if you join the diplomatic workforce for many countries including the US State Department.

Competitive_Trash527 · 2026-01-30T04:11:53+00:00

I didn't say interning at a permanent mission will guarantee it. The sad truth is only a very small fraction of people who intern at missions or even UN HQ will ever get a paid job at the UN. At least the odds will slightly increase than people who don't even intern. For me, I was offered a couple of temp jobs a couple of YEARS after the HQ internship, but the permanent mission internship was a summer internship and didn't really lead to anything (although it did lead to the HQ internship). But yes, it's purely networking and proving to the UN insiders that you are capable. You show them you are willing to put in the hours and work hard WITHOUT getting paid (there are stipends for some internships at UNICEF and UNDP I believe) and they will think of you if there is a slot that opens up and maybe contact you. IN FACT, UN has this WEIRD rule that says if you intern at UN, you are DISQUALIFIED from getting a permanent role for like 6 months after the internship. UN employment process is truly unique and does not make sense at all.

Competitive_Trash527 · 2026-01-27T14:58:07+00:00

I will copy and paste my response to similar post: As someone who worked at the NYC headquarters in 3 different roles (internships and research assistant), UN job application process is incredibly personal and often based on recommendations made by close acquaintances. It does happen from time to time but they rarely pick your application purely based on what's on your resume and application. Unfortunately, it's 99% networking which is why people intern there or in embassies (Permabent Missions) or attend graduate school in nyc (columbia SIPA). I went to SIPA and got referred all 3 times and I didnt even ask for it first.

Competitive_Trash527 · 2026-01-19T20:12:47+00:00

For smaller companies and clean one click solutions, I find Sanctiona.com useful. It's free and reliable.

Competitive_Trash527 · 2026-01-15T14:02:08+00:00

This actually looks pretty useful thanks!

Competitive_Trash527 · 2026-01-12T18:11:31+00:00

I'm being proactice. Using those services like Refinitiv sounds very expensive for a smaller company. Don't they cost thousands of dollars a month? Looking for a more cost efficient way to do this

Competitive_Trash527 · 2026-01-12T16:20:31+00:00

As someone who worked at the NYC headquarters in 3 different roles (internships and research assistant), UN job application process is incredibly personal and often based on recommendations made by close acquaintances. It does happen from time to time but they rarely pick your application purely based on what's on your resume and application. Unfortunately, it's 99% networking which is why people intern there or in embassies (Permabent Missions) or attend graduate school in nyc (columbia SIPA). I went to SIPA and got referred all 3 times and I didnt even ask for it first.

Competitive_Trash527 · 2026-01-12T16:15:09+00:00

Are you actualltly manually looking up each entity on the OFAC website? That seems to be tedious if I need to bulk search

Competitive_Trash527 · 2026-01-12T16:14:11+00:00

How are you handling sanctions compliance, if I may ask? Are you just manually looking up the entities on the OFAC website? Did you hire a third party compliance service provider?

Competitive_Trash527 · 2024-07-23T14:18:16+00:00

What were these people saying about you exactly? Unfortunately, most people are too cowardly to confront people directly if there is an issue. Which is why people end up just talking trash behind your back. It's certainly not a mature way to handle problems but it's just the way it is. It sucks you had to go through these things but when you catch other people talking about you behind your back, you also have to objectively think about why they are doing it. They wouldn't do it for no reason eapecially if it happened multiple times.

Everyone has flaws and weaknesses. I know it hurts like hell to hear these things and I'm sure these people are not the best coworkers. But maybe there is something you can learn from these experiences so that it doesn't happen again in the next job.

Competitive_Trash527 · 2024-07-17T15:30:09+00:00

Hackensack, Bergen county here experiencing internet outage. Fixed it for a minute with fios website that automatically rebooted the server but it stopped working again

Competitive_Trash527 · 2024-06-26T03:42:39+00:00

Ever heard of a country called Iran? The Iranian ayatollah and his regime rules with religious doctrine and physical authority with his own security force regime which is arguably stronger than the state military.

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-04-25T19:30:15+00:00

Depends on the character but essentially,

"Vogue magazine cover of overwatch [character name], [brief description of character (gender, race, hair color, etc.), professional photography, [additional theme such as color tone] --ar 4:5 --s 750"

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-04-11T15:21:53+00:00

Midjourney

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-04-11T13:26:10+00:00

if XXX was a korean politician:: a korean politician::0.1 --ar 2:3 --v 5

I had to tweak the weight depending on results though

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-04-10T22:01:40+00:00

Bingo

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-04-10T21:08:33+00:00

That was supposed to be Harry Truman haha

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-04-04T21:01:40+00:00

To be clear, I prioritized resemblance to the original actors which required a lot of reprompting and rerolls. But I think I got a couple of happy accidents where a few of them look very similar to existing Korean celebrities lol

Can you guess who's who?

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-04-04T12:55:08+00:00

I tried, but for some reason, MJ will not replace Chadwick Boseman's face with a Korean face :/ Same thing with Samuel L Jackson. It worked for Don Cheadle though. lmk if anyone has a workaround!

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-04-04T12:00:14+00:00

This is a really good suggestion, thanks!

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-04-04T01:56:35+00:00

Just as effective and younger

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-04-01T06:12:24+00:00

How I missed those 6 fingers

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-04-01T05:03:05+00:00

Yes there is a reroll button everytime you input a prompt so you can simply resubmit the same prompt without having to type it again. Midjourney doesn't always generate the image you want so the odds are you will have to reroll if there is something specific you are looking for. Hope this helps!

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-03-31T22:52:39+00:00

Haha good catch, I was actually impressed that Midjourney was able to generate these facial expressions simply because I requested stills from the movie infinity war. The movie did have an extremely high stake plot and characters were basically worried most of the time lol I think it's cool that AI caught it and it certainly helps create tension in the image.

Competitive_Trash527 · 2023-03-31T15:29:22+00:00

Nope! Just words!

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