The World Bank Group YPP: The Essential Guide

This comprehensive eBook will help you to perform successfully in the World Bank Group YPP (2021-2022) selection process. It will introduce you to the complex World Bank Group and its approach towards international development; it will teach you how to prepare each of the documents required in detail, and it will also get you ready for the interview and Assessment Center. 

Working for the World Bank Group (WBG) is a dream for many. Among the different ways of selecting staff, the Young Professionals Program (YPP) is known as the World Bank Group’s most important and prestigious selection process. The World Bank Group YPP is an extremely competitive selection process. Every year, more than 6,000 highly qualified young people from around the world apply for this program but only around 45 applicants are selected each year. Being selected for the World Bank Group YPP can change your life forever, but this is no easy task. In pursuit of its mission, the OpenIGO network has prepared the World Bank Group YPP Guide (PDF E-book) to help you perform successfully in the World Bank Group YPP, even if you do not have connections or previous experience at the Bank.

This book will introduce you to the complex World Bank Group and its approach towards international development; it will teach you how to prepare each of the documents required in detail, and will also get you ready for the interview and Assessment Center. It does not matter if you intend to apply now or in five years’ time, this eBook will help you qualify for this important program.

This eBook was written and revised by a team of Ph.D. professors, human resources specialists and intergovernmental organization staff with a great deal of diligence.