It is more than a career; it is a passion, a calling to be able to serve humanity - Anonymous employee UNHCR Employee Review

Honorable, happy, the sense of mission, multicultural, kindness, fulfilled

complex, dangerous, no night life, water resource limited, traffic congest

Good benefits, you really do help people

Human Resources takes a highly specialized approach to talent management. In that you cannot really change functions easily in UNHCR. You have to hyper-specialize in one area. So if you are a protection staff, you tend to burn out from trauma without an internal mechanism to alleviate the burnout. The higher you go in UNHCR, the crazier you become.