<p>I'm a freshman at Georgetown SFS and I'm currently looking online for internships with the UN. However, on the UN website, all the ones I came across are for people who are specialists or are doing their graduate degrees and have already completed their bachelor's degree. The age seems to be an issue as well since most of the internships require you to be 20-35 and I'm only 18. Does this mean I have to wait? Does anyone know of any UN internships that are available for college students who are in the process of completing their undergrad degree? I would deeply appreciate any of your advice or help.</p>
<p>Hello, Fortune. Acutally, I was looking into this myself. I believe you do have be 20. I started college early, 2 years early and I've been looking for internships ever since. I did look into the UN, and I found that you have to be ATLEAST 20 for every single internship, and most of them what you to be graduated already, and if your lucky a rising senior. I think that the UN internships are mostly for graduate students. However, I am not certian.</p>
<p>If the UN is anything like the World Bank they hire lots of temps. The trick is finding out the temp agency (telesec -corestaff, manpower, kelly, randstad, etc) that works with the organization and telling them where you are interested in temping. Once you are a temp, you have a foot in the door and access to the networks.</p>
<p>Since you are a hoya, check the career center's alumni database (hoyasonline) and contact people that work for the UN in NY, then ask them if they know what temp agency the UN uses.</p>
<p>The UN's jobs -- including internships -- are mostly for people who are either in the midst of or have already completed graduate degrees in pertinent fields (like disease reasearch, international relations, environmental politics, etc.) You're definitely going to have wait til you've at least graduated from college, unless you have some inside connection.</p>
<p>um....my dad's best friend is the United States Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva...he was just inaugurated (sp?) this past summer, so that was when I got to see gtown. it was way cool. we were on the top floor of the State Department building, and the Secretary of Labor and the governor of Mississippi were there.</p>
<p>But I assume you want the intership in New York, so I wouldn't be of much help.</p>
<p>Audra...that is awesome, well I'm desperate so an internship anywhere would be good. I was actually considering doing an internship in Sudan since my dad works there. <em>Sigh</em> I guess this means I have to wait. But I will check Hoyasonline (thanks for the suggestion 1789). Thank you everyone for your help! I appreciate it.</p>
<p>If you're able to, you may be able to connect with Georgetown SFS faculty members who have extensive connections in the U.N. Only Professor Andrew Natsios comes to mind at the moment, but I'm sure others have connections inside the U.N.</p>