Announcing vacancies

(ii) Screening of applications for vacant posts

Decides that generic vacancy announcements posted in Galaxy should be accompanied by information on the location of current specific vacancies and that this would apply to all international vacancies in peacekeeping missions

(ii) Screening of applications for vacant posts

According to section 3, all D 2 vacancy announcements, except for vacant posts in the Executive Office of the Secretary General and for the special envoys, are to be circulated.

Vacancies in specialized areas have been extremely difficult to fill.

In that regard, rosters of qualified candidates will continue to be built in order to accelerate the process of filling vacant posts.

Vacancy announcements will be issued for all vacant non roster posts.

Decides that generic vacancy announcements posted in Galaxy should be accompanied by information on the location of current specific vacancies and that this would apply to all international vacancies in peacekeeping missions

geographic distribution and location as at 30 June 2005 (CGeneral Fund,

geographic distribution and location as at 30 June 2005

In order to address that problem, the Administration of UNON was actively advertising vacant posts.

An inordinate amount of time has been devoted to dealing with vacancies, as well as to the training of new staff.

UNDP will be implementing a vacancy tracking tool that will track the various steps in the recruitment process from the vacancy announcement through to the initial offer of appointment (para.

Vacancy management and filling vacant posts in a timely manner are not finite activities they require constant analysis and action.

vocational guidance (in the selection of a profession that is in demand on the market, the selection of a suitable job or the possibility of finding work in an open job slots, etc.)

In paragraph 74, the Board recommended that UNRWA continue with its efforts to fill posts within the set targets.

In paragraph 334 of its report, the Board recommended that the International Civil Service Commission expedite the filling of vacant posts.

As a result, while the distribution of vacancies within and among programmes has fluctuated over the course of the biennium, there has been a clear increase in the overall vacancy rate for posts subject to the suspension.

Given the exception to the suspension of recruitment regarding safety and security personnel, and as a result of efforts to expeditiously fill those security posts, the overall number of vacant General Service regular budget posts was reduced to 315 posts as at the end of July 2005.

Focus is on filling some vacancies in order to optimize the work of staff, whose number is 886.

By end January 2005, vacant General Service posts amounted to 416 regular budget posts.

Thus, southern Europe is losing its best talent, northern Europe is struggling to fill its job vacancies, and all of Europe is becoming poorer.

Instead, vacancies are listed internally as temporary contracts, obviating the need for a national search.

At the end of the 2002 2003 biennium a total of 151 General Service regular budget posts were reported as vacant.

In some instances, vacant positions required a combination of skills or languages, for which no suitable candidate could be found internally.

Emphasizes the importance of openly advertising all posts, including ad hoc appointments for field operations, including the dissemination of detailed job descriptions among all States prior to the filling of those posts

Comment by the Administration. An Agency wide exercise is being undertaken to evaluate vacancies in area posts with a view to establishing whether or not such long standing vacant posts were still needed.

For the vacant posts placed on hold pending the outcome of the ongoing management review, the Advisory Committee hoped that the resulting proposals would be based on the actual levels of the positions filled and that a re justification of the vacant posts would be provided or the posts abolished.

Emphasizes the importance of openly advertising all posts, including ad hoc appointments for field operations, including the dissemination of detailed job descriptions among all States prior to the filling of those posts

233 (m)). The Committee notes that the functions of the vacant posts were performed through temporary assignment of staff from another peacekeeping mission and from New York.

Announcing vacancies conveys a message by which men and women are presented in different social roles, based on the traditional division of roles between genders.

In 2002, based on quotas and with the assistance of employment service offices, a total of 179 women were placed in previously vacant posts and additional jobs. sic

Reiterates its request to the Secretary General to make every effort to fill vacant posts in peacekeeping operations expeditiously

In paragraph 181 of the report, UNRWA agreed with the Board's recommendation that it monitor vacant posts and provide at regular intervals updated information on the progress made in filling them, as well as undertake a continuous evaluation of the need for the posts.

In New York, 82.7 per cent of all posts had been filled. Vacancy announcements for 56 of the 83 vacant posts were currently on Galaxy and the remaining announcements were being prepared.

11. Requests that all vacant Professional posts, including the five new posts in the Investment Management Service endorsed by the present resolution, be expeditiously filled

(c) OHCHR has systematically developed job descriptions and advertised vacancies in respect of temporary positions at headquarters and in the field on the OHCHR web site.

By the end of December 2004, the number of General Service regular budget posts reported as vacant had increased to 210.

Requests the Secretary General to intensify his ongoing efforts, including through innovative approaches, to ensure the expeditious filling of all vacant posts

It trusts that the proposals resulting from the review will be based on the actual levels of the positions filled and that a new justification of the vacant posts will be provided, or that the posts will be abolished.

To fill vacancies in emergency operations as rapidly as possible, Fast Track announcements were issued for posts in critical areas such as Burundi, Chad and Sudan.

In paragraph 292 of its report, the Board recommended that the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) take appropriate measures to fill vacant posts in a timely manner.

10. Further requests the Secretary General to accelerate his efforts to fill vacant posts in interpretation and translation at Headquarters and at all other United Nations duty stations

Likewise, there had been no impact on external recruitment, since the overall number of posts remained the same and vacancies continued to be advertised on Galaxy.