In 1927, the Geneva Graduate Institute was founded alongside the League of Nations in order to educate and equip the world’s first cohorts of international civil servants. Each year, we aim to reinforce this connection between the international organisations in Geneva and the Institute by offering career fairs that bring the organisations to our campus in the heart of international Geneva.
IO Career Days is an annual two-day event hosted at La Maison de la Paix by the Institute's Career Services in partnership with numerous international organisations (IOs) and United Nations agencies around Geneva. It is our largest career event of the year.
The event is targeted at students and alumni who are interested in working for IOs and UN agencies in a wide variety of sectors including migration, global health, environmental sustainability, trade, humanitarian aid, research, human rights, security, peace building, and more.
List of participating organisations in IO Career Days 2025 (this list is updated as more confirm):
- CCHN (Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation)
- CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
- FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization)
- GCERF (Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund)
- HD Centre (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue)
- ICoCA (International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers' Association)
- ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross)
- IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
- ILO (International Labour Organization)
- IOM (International Organization for Migration)
- ITC (International Trade Centre)
- ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
- OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
- UN Library & Archives
- UNAIDS
- UNDRR (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction)
- UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
- UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research)
- UNOG (United Nations Office at Geneva)
- UN Women
- WEF (World Economic Forum)
- WHO (World Health Organization)
Registration for students:
Are you a student at the Geneva Graduate Institute or the Geneva Academy? Please click the button below to register your attendance. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.
Note: Registration for this event is not open yet. Please check back in early 2025.
Information for employers:
Are you an international organisation or United Nations agency interested in participating in the 2025 edition of IO Career Days? You will find below some key info about the event. Further down the page, you can also see photos and figures from last year's event.
- The event is free of charge for participating organisations and attending students.
- Each organisation is allocated a booth. At your booth, you can showcase your organisation's work and talk directly to students and graduates.
- It is a 2-day event, but each organisation chooses just 1 day to participate.
- If you want to join the event and reserve your booth, please write to career@graduateinstitute.ch.
A glance at last year's edition
This year is the 4th annual edition of IO Career Days, formerly known as UN Career Days. Last year, the 3rd edition took place on 27-28 February 2024. You can find the event webpage here, and below you can see photos and key figures.
Key figures:
- IOs and UN agencies participating: 26
- IO and UN staff members participating: 66
- Students attended: 600+
Photos:
