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Hi! Yes this form has been sent to me too! See you 🙂

@AM313 congratulations to you! I received the same notification! Question they are mentioning that they are expecting from us to take the first proposition, and refusing it could lead to an expulsion of the talent pool... Any thought on that? Cheers

Hello guys here below the last communication received from Devex: "We have verified your degree successfully and completed your reference checks. We do not have any questions at this time, but we will inform you if we or WFP require any other information. Regarding the next steps: please note that candidates will be notified of the results of their application accordingly at the end of the process, only after we have completed all the background checks for the entire pool. Once this is done, candidates will hear from either WFP or ourselves with the relevant updates." Fingers crossed for the final decision! Cheers 🙂

Heloo everyone! How are you doing? I am still in the process of background check, They asked first my university to certified my master degree then when they have got the confirmation they wrote to my 3 references. From my understanding everybody replied in the 2 days after receiving the email. After 2 weeks, Devex wrote to the organisms that I am affiliated with in France for my membership. they did reply positively last week and Devex acknowledge the answer... Now I believe I need to wait for the final decision! In the first email for background check they were mentioning November to finish all the process. Let's be patient 🙂 What about you guys any news to share? Cheers, JB

Actually, they wrote to my university putting me in CC and attaching my master's degree and the form authorizing the university to communicate my diploma to the WFP recruitment team. I have seen the exchange between my university and WFP... next step for me is the 3 referees' feedback! I didn't here from them yet. Cheers 🙂

The deadline to send all the information was the 25th of September so I guess they will start to contact schools and references from now. They are notifying in their email that the entire background check etc. will end on the 27 November 2023. let's see, As soon as I have some news I will share it with you guys! For the school backgrounds, I sent only the higher diploma background check. But there is also a table to fill up for those who have more than one certification. Cheers!

Hello everyone! Last night I received an official email telling me that I was not selected for the P4 position. So now only the P3 pending for the background reference check 🙂 Cheers

Sure! don't burn yourself out! Let us know how it ends for you! :-))

Hello, you have to see it as a normal job interview so you cannot show anything besides yourself at the interview. for the competencies asked, check my post on the type of competencies I mentioned in one of my post above regarding UNOPS and UNICEF. It will help you to have a better picture of how to prepare. The type of question can be: Describe a moment where you felt that your audience was not understanding you, what action did you take and how did you make sure that they understood after that? what could you have done differently? Or Describe a situation when you have to convince a peer or your superior that your idea was better than his. How did you manage? what could you have done differently? Good luck

Good morning, if all of this is not for the Fit Pool program but for a job, from my understanding they are doing now the reference check (the one that you shared when you applied for the job) you can Ask your references if they received an email from WFP? But I don't get why you have to go through 2 CBI... Unless they had a doubt between you and another one?! Anyhow fingers crossed and let us know! for which position did you apply?

Hello! I qualified for P3 level. On the website of WFP recruitment only P3 changed its status: "Congratulations, you have passed through to the next phase of the recruitment process". The p4 shows always the same status:"We are pleased to advise you that you will be partaking in the assessment phase" even if the date changed... Nothing is done yet they still have to check for my references and diploma background. For the references, it is clearly mentioned: direct supervisor in the last 10 years. here below more details: Please read carefully the instructions and have the information ready before opening the form link, as you can only submit your form once. 1. You will be asked to provide at least 3 direct supervisors as references from your 3 most recent roles. This is important to WFP, and you will be contacted for further elaboration if you do not follow this requirement. 2. As much as possible, do not skip supervisors from the last 5 years. WFP strongly prefers more recent references, even if their period of supervision is more brief than those from farther back. You may opt to add a 4th reference if you feel it is necessary. 3. Each reference must be a direct supervisor in an official capacity for at least 3 months (if a consultancy/project-based role), or at least 6 months (for full-time employment). A direct supervisor oversees your day-to-day responsibilities and conducts your performance appraisals and their name is indicated as “first-line manager” or similar in official evaluation paperwork. 4. Each direct supervisor must have worked with the candidate within the last 5 years. If you have reported to fewer than 3 direct supervisors within this period, we will accept references from before 2017, provided they meet the other criteria. 5. Each direct supervisor should have operated within different timeframes. No two references should overlap in terms of the dates supervising the candidate unless there was a transition period, turnover, etc. which you will be asked to explain in the online form. Please make sure to double-check the dates you provide. 6. Supervisors for internships, graduate studies, or PhD advisers may not be considered valid references unless there are no other supervisors available. Please make sure to specify and elaborate on the reason in the form if such is the case. 7. Relatives will NOT be considered valid references. Cheers

Hello everyone! New update, I just received an email for "Info for Background Checks due Monday, September 25 - WFP FIT Pool". Academic verification and Professional reference check (form the 3 last direct supervisor) Cheers!

There is no presentation to show only yourself in front of the camera like any zoom meeting 🙂 you will have to talk that 's it!

Hello! just finished the interview, 3 persons on the panel 2 HR and 1 Chief Engineer. I had to do a small presentation of myself and my motivation about why applying to the Fit Pool program then they asked 5 competencies questions. So exactly as I mentioned in one of my posts on how to prepare for the interview. the competencies were closer to the UNOPS ones than UNICEF. It lasted 1 hour in total and the jury was very nice. let's see the outcome, they told me 3 months for the final results to know if I am taken or not. Best of luck for everyone!

From my understanding of the competencies it is different from the skills... the written test was about your knowledge on technical and specialty matters what you mentioned above are directly link to the skill as project management or engineering. From my previous experience in the interview that I did they where looking more on the capacity to manage a situation that would require competency that are out of the "scholar' or "job" deliverables... but more about you has human being managing stress, confrontation, ethic or moral issue etc. Things that are not really in the job description but important when you want to hire someone... Organizing, planning all those thing are more a skill work related to the deliverable of the job itself. I might be wrong with WFP it is my first time with them but for UNOPS and UNICEF it was more like I said above 🙂