PHDS NEED NOT APPLY

“The United Nations is seeking collaborators without any expertise, 15 years of experience in this area required. PhDs, MBAs, MAs and self-made men need not apply.”
This ad seems absurd to you but you are wrong. This is what you’ll be able to read a few years from now in Elle, Mayfair or Playboy. It is the direction that recruitment is heading in the UN.
Indeed, why should the UN recruit PhDs in economics or mathematics or even a plumber if five years after starting to work at the United Nations they are obliged to change jobs! We have just been told that what counts is not our training but our potential. A nurse may have the potential to become a printer, while an economist could very well become a gardener.
The problem is that once you have entered this system, you will never be able to leave it, since as far as I know the UN is the only employer in the world, and even beyond, that has set itself a target to transform any type of specialist into a generalist. Just imagine if tomorrow you want to leave the UN, what enterprise is going to hire someone who has spent five years as a statistician, five years as an electrician and five years as a quality controller. The answer is – none. Thanks to this intensive UN «de» formation you will end up in the long queue of unemployed with no recognized expertise. A big thank-you to our bureaucrats, who work hard to improve our job satisfaction and the efficiency of the Organization.