OECD Young Professionals Program: What you need to know

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Young Professionals Program shares many similarities with its counterparts at other international organizations — save for the application cycle. While the World Bank and others hire young professionals every year, OECD only does so biannually.

In 2017, OECD is scheduled to hire its new batch of young professionals. As such, anyone interested to compete for one of the assignments may expect an announcement sometime in the fall of 2016.

They may also expect some stiff competition. For the 2015 cycle, the program received roughly 7,000 applications for 19 assignments.