Guide to Accelerating Your Career With AI
Welcome, United Nations community!
A practical AI guide for United Nations professionals navigating applications, interviews, networking, and career transitions.
Use AI to strengthen every step of your United Nations career journey.
This guide lays out a collection of AI tools to increase your impact at work and accelerate your future job search.
Guide At A Glance
Supercharge Your Work
5 modules
01
Look Inward
2 modules
02
Explore What's Next
4 modules
03
Build Better Applications
9 modules
04
Supercharge Your Work
Use these modules to move through supercharge your work with clearer prompts, stronger context, and faster decisions.
Brainstorm way more ideas
Tool: Ideamap.ai
Sample Prompt
How To Use It
Use Ideamap.ai to generate a broad map of ideas for career exploration, practical UN workflows, and places where AI could support your work.
Learn everything about anything
Tool: Google NotebookLM
Sample Prompt
How To Use It
Use Google NotebookLM to quickly understand literally any topic by having Google pull together sources and synthesize a briefing as a presentation, video, podcast, infographic, and more. You can also ask questions to your data sources the way you would ask an expert.
Create a presentation
Tool: Gamma
How To Use It
Paste a summary of what you want to present into Gamma to generate a structured presentation with titles, content, graphics, and storyline.
Become a data wizard
Tool: Google Gemini
Use AI to learn what's interesting about data and generate compelling visualizations.
Details
Prompts
Prompt 1
Prompt 2
Prompt 3
How To Use It
Drop the example data file into Gemini, then input each prompt one at a time, waiting for a response before continuing with the next prompt. Use this as inspiration for how to generate interesting and interactive ways to understand your own data set.
Use an AI notetaker
Tool: Granola
AI notetakers help you stay fully present in meetings while capturing key decisions, action items, open questions, and follow-up commitments. They are especially useful for stakeholder conversations, informational interviews, project meetings, and complex briefings where details can otherwise get lost.
Look Inward
Use these modules to move through look inward with clearer prompts, stronger context, and faster decisions.
What do I enjoy doing?
Tool: ChatGPT Voice Mode to talk out loud with AI
How To Use It
Use ChatGPT Voice Mode to have a conversation about what you enjoy doing in your work and life.
How am I unique?
Tool: HiringCoach.ai Unique Value Proposition Tool
How To Use It
Use the HiringCoach.ai Unique Value Proposition Tool to define what differentiates you and express your value more clearly.
Explore What's Next
Use these modules to move through explore what's next with clearer prompts, stronger context, and faster decisions.
Which sectors are growing?
Tool: HiringCoach Industry Explorer
How To Use It
Explore which growing sectors most closely align with your background.
Explore how your background fits a sector
Tool: Gemini Deep Research
Sample Prompt
How To Use It
Upload your resume to Gemini, paste in this prompt, and use Deep Research mode to understand fit, gaps, and next steps for various career paths that could be a great fit for you.
How do I reach out to people?
Tool: HiringCoach.ai Coffee Chat Guide, Happenstance.ai
How To Use It
Use HiringCoach's coffee chat guide to learn how to reach out to people in your target industries, and use Happenstance.ai to find relevant contacts in your network. Join the UN Career Week group on Happenstance to expand the set of people you can search for to all group members.
Hone your pitch
Tool: HiringCoach Pitch Builder
Use Pitch Builder to turn your background into audience-specific pitches for networking, interviews, career fairs, and first-contact conversations.
How To Use It
Create a pitch profile, choose the audience you are speaking to, and refine versions of your headline, 10-second pitch, 30-second pitch, and interview narrative with the positioning coach.
Build Better Applications
Use these modules to move through build better applications with clearer prompts, stronger context, and faster decisions.
Stay organized
Tool: HiringCoach Mission Control
How To Use It
Use HiringCoach Mission Control to keep your applications, outreach, follow-ups, and next steps organized in one place.
Transform a UN CV into a high-impact resume
Tool: HiringCoach Prompt Library
How To Use It
Use the Transform a Long CV prompt from the Prompt Library with your UN CV and target role to create a tighter, higher-impact resume.
Optimize your resume
Tool: HiringCoach.ai Resume Optimizer
How To Use It
Use HiringCoach.ai to optimize your resume with AI-powered suggestions and improvements.
Write better cover letters
Tool: HiringCoach.ai Cover Letter Generator
How To Use It
Use HiringCoach.ai to write compelling cover letters tailored to specific job applications.
Answer application questions
Tool: HiringCoach.ai Application Question Tool
How To Use It
Use HiringCoach.ai to practice and generate sample answers for common application questions.
Optimize your LinkedIn
Tool: HiringCoach.ai LinkedIn Optimizer
How To Use It
Use HiringCoach.ai to optimize your LinkedIn profile with comprehensive recommendations.
Get interview feedback
Tool: HiringCoach.ai Interview Tool
How To Use It
Use HiringCoach.ai to practice interview questions and get scored feedback on your responses.
Get immediate expert guidance
Tool: ChatGPT Voice Mode
Use ChatGPT Voice Mode as an immediate post-interview coach by giving it your interview transcript and asking for the highest-impact improvements.
Sample Prompt
How To Use It
Copy and paste the transcript from your interview into ChatGPT, open Voice Mode, and ask the prompt above to get immediate coaching on how to improve your interview performance.
Get pumped up
Tool: HiringCoach Pep Talk
How To Use It
Use HiringCoach's Pep Talk feature before interviews or big application moments to hear a personalized confidence boost grounded in your resume and the role.