What this is
A structured reference of frameworks, tools, and ideas drawn from the sessions of the UN Inter-Agency Career Week 2026, organised through a seven-dimension career navigation model.
Each page is designed to stand on its own, so you can enter from any topic without needing to read the toolkit sequentially.
What this is not
This is not the official record of IACW 2026.
The official archive belongs to the Centre for Learning and Multilingualism at the UN Office at Geneva. Session recordings and related materials will be published on the event homepage as they are released by the organisers.
Why it exists
The five days of IACW 2026 contained a large amount of practical guidance, frameworks, and reflection. Much of it was valuable, but difficult to absorb and reuse in real time because it was distributed across dozens of sessions, speakers, and perspectives.
This toolkit organises that material into a more navigable and reusable structure.
What appeared to be missing
The Event Coverage Analysis highlighted two recurring patterns:
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Coverage across the seven dimensions was uneven
- strong on mindset, narrative, upskilling, and application mechanics
- comparatively thin on the practical work of identifying, assessing, and selecting viable opportunities
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Most sessions reflected the perspective of the hiring system
Recruiters, HR professionals, coaches, and leadership advisors were strongly represented. The lived perspective of people navigating uncertainty, transition, stagnation, or job search was less visible.
Neither of these is a criticism of the event. They are simply observations about where additional exploration seemed useful.
What is happening alongside the toolkit
The toolkit became part of a broader effort to better understand where the real friction in career navigation exists.
Two parallel initiatives are developing alongside it.
A small set of career-navigation conversations
Short conversations with professionals working across international development, humanitarian, and adjacent sectors.
The goal is not formal research, but pattern detection: where people experience friction, how they make career decisions under uncertainty, how they interpret transferable skills, which forms of support are genuinely useful, and where existing career-guidance ecosystems may still leave gaps.
The conversations help surface realities that are often less visible in institutionally framed discussions about careers.
An AI-assisted prototype for opportunity discovery
A working prototype designed to address one specific part of the navigation problem: helping people identify relevant opportunities beyond the organisations, sectors, and role titles they already know.
The prototype analyses both sides simultaneously:
- what a person has actually done across their career
- how organisations describe needs, functions, and roles
The goal is to surface credible matches even when the language between the two does not obviously align.
I originally built the tool for myself. It is already surfacing roles I would likely not have identified manually, and a small number of early testers are beginning to experiment with it.
The toolkit, the conversations, and the prototype are separate initiatives, but they stem from the same observation: career navigation problems often emerge less from lack of capability, and more from fragmentation, translation gaps, weak visibility across adjacent possibilities, and difficulty making sense of increasingly complex career landscapes.
Get involved
There are three ways to participate:
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Join a 25-minute conversation Share your own experience navigating career decisions, transition, uncertainty, or job search. Participants receive access to the synthesis of emerging patterns.
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Request early access to the prototype Small testing group, free of charge, expected to open within one to two weeks.
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Receive a future public-release update No further commitment required.
Who is behind this
I am Davide Piga, a Knowledge and Innovation Advisor with nearly two decades of experience working across international organisations, including multiple UN entities and the World Bank.
Much of my work has focused on how knowledge moves inside organisations: how expertise is surfaced, how people learn from one another, and how information becomes practical, reusable, and actionable rather than fragmented and difficult to access.
More recently, my work has increasingly explored the intersection of collective intelligence, AI, knowledge work, and professional development, particularly in contexts shaped by uncertainty, transition, and institutional complexity.
This project sits at the intersection of those interests.
- Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davidepiga