You might have seen the recent announcement from UN inviting appliation from young graduates for traineeship in UN organisaions in Nepal. If you are thinking to apply for the traineeship announced by the UN,
here are a few tips I think will be useful for you to prepare your
motivation letter. The traineeship is for someone who is from a socially
excluded group. You should clearly show that in your application. Your
chances for being considered increases if you
are from more discriminated marginalised groups within the socially
excluded group itself. e.g. female candidates, disabled persons within
them have more chances.
Then you select specific area of work
that you are interested in. I think you should select more than one and
put those in priority order. Then highlight in your Motivation letter
the following things in order:
a brief background about
yourself - your studies - and how does this traineeship is related to
you. Here you may highlight that you firmly believe in UN's efforts in
Nepal to increase number of people from socially excluded groups in its
workforce; in increasing workforce diversity and UN's development
efforts in Nepal on ending social exclusion, discrimination and to end
conflict; on dealing with climate change and building sustainable
livelihoods of poor, rural marginalised people. You describe in your own
ways which one matters most for you and that this opportunity will help
you to learn how development issues are addressed in Nepal.
Then in the next two paragraphs, you describe that what you think you
will learn from this traineeship and how it will help you to move up in
your desired career. You can say that many organisations ask for
experience in thier vacancies and this traineeship could give you that
valuable experience.
UN would like to hear what you can
contribute to the development of Nepal. There is no hard and fast rule
about it but if you write something on this, it will increase your
chances of getteing selected. This is just like Miss Nepal competition
when the judges ask if you win, what will you change. They know that
what the contestent says she may not work on it, but the clue is how
clearly the answer is given. Here is also the same clever trick you
should play. Tell them some of your thoughts what do you think about
development and that this traineeship will give you the opportunity to
put your ideas in practice, under the expert guidance of professionals
working there in UN.
And finally, conclude your letter by
saying that you are really eager to have this opportunity, that you are
free and willing to travel to remote parts of Nepal and that you look
forward to a positive answer from them.
Good Luck!
