u/SideDouble9796

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Please help me on how to navigate this issue.

I'm an intern at one of the UN agencies and my contract would get over in 2 months. I approached my supervisor to see if I could get a consultancy contract position and if not, at least a short term contract. She replied back to me saying people who did this so and so masters degree gets hired for the consultancy contract in my team and she asked me to go get that degree +said she hasn't arranged any budget. When I further mentioned that I could at least support the tasks of the current consultants on their work as I have been doing now so I at least I get to develop my expertise on the topic. To this, for some reason she related me with her office assistant saying she works independently without my help. Also I would like to kindly note that, I have brought up the consultancy contract with her 1-2 months ago, she didn't mention my master's degree is not linked with the work and even assured that she has to look at the budget and she normally hires someone who has at least 5-10 years of experience even though there was no certainty, I saw a ray of hope.

I arranged feedback meeting with her recently and other employees were invited too. Other consultants spoke about how detail-oriented, proactive, fast learner I am but I fail to communicate on to the point sometimes, so my feedback I think is fairly well. She has budget (as per few of her colleagues) too. Additionally, she also expects me to inform her whatever I does at the office even if its a project done with other interns that doesn't affect work hours, and I have always followed that. And other thing she raised in the feedback meeting was that I don't have to let her know everything that happens but that contradicts to what she told me earlier. She even hated it when I sat in the office after work hours and none of the interns that I asked had supervisors asked them why they sit after office hours. Anyway I have asked her if she could send my cv across her network to see if I could get any short term contract because its been 2 years since I graduated and I don't think having an internship in my CV would help me get better opportunities as I expect so at least getting to write a full-time position in my resume would help me in applying to good firms (I haven't mentioned this to her btw). She has agreed to share my CV anyway but at the same I'm thinking to network within my building but its always better to let her know with whom all I'm approaching in the building right but I'm really scared if she would sabotage my chances somehow. I'm very sorry for such a long rant. Kindly help me here.

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u/SideDouble9796 — 4 days ago