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Selection Criteria: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Ever liked writing your response to selection criteria?
Humanitarian Career Exploration: Sydney
FREE workshop that opens your mind, and busts some myths, about building a successful international aid career.
Humanitarian Career Exploration
Free workshop that opens your mind, and busts some myths, about building a successful international aid career.
What To Do and Not Do On Your Humanitarian Cover Letter
When applying for a professional humanitarian opportunity...
Job Notice: Media and Organisational Strengthening Mentor, Solomon Islands
AVI opportunity based in Honiara for 12 months.
How to Become An International Humanitarian Worker
Don’t want to spend your life behind a keyboard, in a bland office, making other people money?
Job Notice: Program Associate, Sydney, NSW
Part-time junior program opportunity with a small NGO based in Sydney, NSW.
Why Career Changers Make Great Humanitarians
If you ask the ‘average’ international humanitarian how they got there, you’ll hear some surprising responses - we’ve spoken to successful Aid Workers from a variety of professional backgrounds including...
Humanitarian Professionalisation: An Oncoming Wave
Why do we adhere to the myth that it’s OK to pay people millions to destroy the planet - hello, Oil Execs...
Job Notice: Project Coordinator (Nutrition), Doolow, Somalia
Project Coordinator, Nutrition,World Vision, Doolow, Somalia.
Top 15 Traits Of An Effective Humanitarian
Humanitarians come from different backgrounds and work in a wide variety of sectors - health, education, logistics, agriculture and so on. Yet, research suggests that effective Aid Workers possess similar characteristics.
What Humanitarian Employers Want
Our world’s challenges are playing out against a backdrop of population change; climate change; economic uncertainty; political turmoil; civil unrest; and technological transformation.
How To Accelerate Your Humanitarian Career: 5 Tips
"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them." William Arthur Ward
Job Notice: Partnerships Officer, Juba, South Sudan
Great entry level position with UNICEF in South Sudan.
Never Too Old. Career Change Humanitarians.
"The path in front of you is rarely a straight line. It’s full of bumps… Embrace the bumps in the road." Ellen Bennett.
Tap The Hidden Humanitarian Jobs Market
The ‘hidden humanitarian job market’. Sounds mysterious. It’s not.The humanitarian sector is like many in the sense that the majority of opportunities aren’t even advertised.
Congratulations Sydney Class of Summer 2017
Humanitarian Institute celebrates the success of the graduating class of the Sydney Summer Certificate in Humanitarian Foundations program.