Whilst preferences made at the time of application will be taken into account where possible for all YPP recruits, all successful candidates must be prepared to accept the first position offered to them. Failure to do so will mean that they are removed from the list of successful candidates and made no further offers.
If you have passed the G to P it’s not mandatory that you accept to move to another duty station for the first assignment but possible if you so wish. However, as a G to P candidate you will have to accept the first position offered if it is in the same duty station.
Candidates who join the YPP through the G to N route (via a Job Opening marked ‘for UN Secretariat Staff G to N’) will have to take the first position offered to them (regardless of department or duty station). They will also be subject to mandatory rotation to a different duty station after their first two-year posting.
A staff member who applies and passes the examination both as an external (‘G to N’) and as an internal (‘G to P’) applicant and thus competes for the 90% of positions made available to external recruits will also be required to accept the first position offered to him or her (regardless of location) and be subject to mandatory rotation to a different duty station after the first two-year posting.