Internation UNV vs. Consultancy
I'm currently serving as an International UNV, all I can say is that the duty station is quite tough both financially and psychologically. I have been told that there is no hope for making the move to a P-level position due to current hiring freeze and liquidity crisis where I am now.
I have been applying aggressively for the last two years and managed to get several written tests and interviews but still nothing has materialised yet so I recently started applying to consultancies and got invitations for couple of them fairly quickly.
My first question is, would you recommend choosing a consultancy over a UNV assignment? I still have 2 more years in my current assignment while the consultancy is a 6 months renewable, but still, it is a project-based assignment. The duty stations of the consultancy much better than my current one in the field.
The second question is that during the interviews for these consultancies they said they will get back in 2-4 weeks time but already has been more than two months. Since I got the interviews one or two weeks after the deadline I expected that they would have an expedited recruitment, is this normal?
Happy to hear your thoughts!