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Learn about the WBG mission, values, Scorecard, and the work of your selected stream. Review relevant projects, research, data, and strategy documents available through the WBG website. Focus on understanding the development challenges your stream addresses and how your experience could contribute.

Our work involves focus on global development across sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan (MENAAP), and South Asia.), The YPs bring distinctive technical skills and may select a stream that best fits their educational and professional background such as:

List all the streams that are open for application in the format below:
Investment

People – Education

People – Health

People – Social Protection

Prosperity – Economic Policies

Prosperity – Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation

Prosperity – Institutions

Prosperity – Poverty and Equity

Planet – Agriculture

Planet – Climate

Planet – Environment

Planet – Social

Planet – Water

Infrastructure – Energy and Extractives

Infrastructure – Sustainable Infrastructure Finance

Infrastructure – Transport

Infrastructure – Urban Development

Digital – Digital Transformation

Legal

When you select a stream in the application form, you will see the qualifications associated with it Read these carefully alongside the stream descriptions on each institution's, unit's, or stream's webpage to understand what is expected of YPP candidates in that area. You can explore the streams  in advance by visiting their respective websites and reviewing the type of work they do — including operations, projects, analytical work, and research ,  — most of which is publicly available under our open access to information policy. The application form also includes two short written statements (up to 400 words each), where you can speak to both your general and stream-specific qualifications for the YPP. The prompts are designed to explore your motivation for joining us and to give us a sense of how you think about — and would approach — the challenges and opportunities central to our work and mission.

We appreciate your interest in the Young Professionals Program (YPP) and recognize a strong motivation to engage with the World Bank Group’s mission and work.

Learn about the WBG mission, values, Scorecard, and your selected stream.  Review relevant projects, research, data, and strategy documents available through the WBG website.  Focus on understanding the development challenges your stream addresses and how your experience could contribute.

The World Bank Group’s Access to Information policy enables broad public access to the information about our work, projects under preparation, projects under implementation, analytic and advisory activities, development data, world development reports, and strategy reports and proceedings.

The selection process may include:

1. Eligibility and Application Review;

1. Asynchronous Video Interview, Stream Specific Assessment and Virtual Job Try-out;

1. Panel interview; and Assessment Center,

4.      Final decision.

We will tell candidates in advance which stages apply to them.

Candidates advancing to the final stages are invited to a  panel interview  and assessment center, both conducted in-person in December and January in Washington DC, a country office, or online. The YPP team will work with invited candidates to plan and confirm interview dates and travel arrangements. Please note that attendance on the required dates is mandatory, and we are unable to reschedule or offer alternate dates. However, if you cannot attend on your assigned date, we will try our best to accommodate/offer alternate dates within the same interview period. In exceptional cases where dates cannot be accommodated and in-person travel is not possible, accommodations can be made for both the interview and the assessment center to take place online.

The panel interview lasts approximately 45 to 50 minutes ,  and may include technical experts, senior WBG staff, and an HR representative. The assessment center includes a collaborative case exercise and a short, written reflection. Together, these activities assess technical depth and breadth , quantitative and qualitative thinking, problem-solving, communication ability, judgement, self-reflection, motivation, and alignment with WBG mission and values.

The assessment center takes approximately one hour and consists of a group exercise (around 45 minutes) based on a WBG case study, which ends with a joint presentation to a representative, followed by a written reflection (around 15 minutes). The group exercise assesses teamwork, communication, leadership skills, and WBG values, while the written reflection is used to evaluate concise written communication, business judgment, and self-reflection.

No. Applicants may submit only one application to the Young Professionals Program. As part of your application, you may indicate up to two additional streams for consideration if your profile aligns with the requirements.

Please note that submitting more than one application will result in disqualification.