Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at UNHCR as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Assistant Officer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Assistant Officer and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at UNHCR takes an average of 180 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Assistant Officer had the quickest hiring process (on average 180 days), whereas Assistant Officer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 180 days).
competency based and interactive, virtually done. The interview focuses on challenges, problem solving, team and partnership building, learning and adapting. questions are much on the PSNP and governments commitment to integrate refugees.
Long, exams and competency-based questions. You should study your career so you can have ready to answer stories and examples from your working experiences. Try your best to study the job description which is very long. All the best
asked about me about my experience, then proceeded asking about UNHCR in Switzerland: What do I know about them, what their job entails: they had a lot of legal questions as well
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If a refugee applies to seek help in Switzerland, what is the process?