Competably
For UN & international job applicants

Get shortlisted for UN jobs.

Competably drafts and scores your competency-based answers the way UN assessors do. The expertise of a $500 coach, for $9 an application.

Free: my “7 mistakes that get UN applications screened out” guide, emailed the moment you join. Launching summer 2026.

Built for applicants toUNDPUNICEFWHOWFPUNHCR

Watch the 60-second teaser — vacancy in, scored answer out.

See exactly how it scores

It coaches your real answer — then shows you the mark.

Paste the vacancy. Competably reads the assessed competencies and drafts each answer in your own voice, then scores it and tells you what lifts it.

UNICEF · Nairobi

Programme Specialist, P-3

Competencies assessed

Drives for resultsWorks collaborativelyManages ambiguity

Question on the form

“Describe a time you delivered results under significant constraints.” — max 1,500 characters.

“Drives for results” — your answer

As Programme Officer in South Sudan, I led a cold-chain rollout after two suppliers withdrew mid-quarter. I renegotiated delivery windows, cut idle stock by 23%, and kept vaccine coverage above target across nine districts — reaching 41,000 children despite a 40% budget cut.

How to strengthen (3 → 5): name the decision only you could make, and the trade-off you weighed. That’s what separates “Drives for results” from “did your job”.

1,438 / 1,500 charactersDrawn only from your CV · your voice

The one question that decides everything — and a blank box.

“Why are you suitable for this position?” Vacancy-specific competency questions. Hard character limits. Written the way the UN scores them. Today your options are an expensive coach or a generic chatbot that doesn’t know the framework. Competably is built for exactly this — beside you, in your corner.

Why we built it

Talent is everywhere. Opportunity isn’t.

I spent years inside the UN and other international organizations. I applied for these jobs dozens of times myself, with my share of rejections I didn’t understand at the time.

But I’ve also been on the other side of the table, screening hundreds of P11s, CVs and cover letters. So I know what makes an assessor stop and shortlist someone... and what makes them screen out a brilliant candidate for reasons that have nothing to do with their talent, and everything to do with how they wrote the application.

The best person for a role often isn’t the one who gets it. It’s the one who knew how to write it the way the system reads it. I don’t think that’s right. Your years in the field, the results you delivered, the people you helped, that’s what should decide it. Not how well you describe it in a second or third language. So I built the tool I wish I’d had: it turns your real experience into the language assessors score, so you’re judged on what you’ve actually done.

- Luca, founder. Not affiliated with the UN, just someone who’s been on both sides of it.

LinkedIn · lucacapone.io

How it works

Three steps, beside the portal.

1

Set up once

Drop in your CV, P11/PHP or LinkedIn export. Competably builds a reusable profile of your real experience — never re-typed.

2

Paste the vacancy

Paste the job ad (or its link/PDF). Competably reads the assessed competencies and drafts your motivation letter + competency answers — scored, with fixes, in your own voice.

3

Apply, then ace the interview

Copy each answer into the portal (it fits the exact character limit). Shortlisted? Practise the competency-based interview with feedback on your real examples.

What you get

Everything an assessor looks for.

Competency answers that score

Mapped to the UN values & competency framework and to each vacancy — with a score and a “how to strengthen” on every answer.

Motivation & cover letters

Tailored to the post, in UN language, drawn only from your real experience.

Fits the portal’s limit

Paste the form’s own question and character cap — the answer condenses to fit, exactly.

Competency-based interview prep

A mock CBI that scores your real STAR answers and tells you what lifts a 3 to a 5.

In your own voice

Every answer reads like you wrote it — drawn from your real experience and yours to edit before you submit.

Your data, protected

EU-hosted, encrypted, explicit consent, and one-click delete.

Built on trust

Your CV is sensitive. We treat it that way.

Handing over your career history takes trust. So we made the safe choices the default — and we never pretend to be something we’re not.

GDPR-aligned EU data residency Encrypted at rest Never auto-applies

EU-hosted & encrypted

Your data lives in the EU, encrypted at rest and in transit. We never sell it.

Never fabricates experience

It sharpens what’s real and asks you when it needs an example. No invented stories — the words stay yours.

Consent & one-click delete

Explicit consent up front; remove your CV and account whenever you choose, in one click.

Pricing

Pay per application. No subscription.

$9

1 application

A single posting

Best value
$19

3 applications

≈ $6.30 each

$39

10 applications

≈ $3.90 each

A single UN posting can be worth a career. Coaching runs into the hundreds a session, thousands a package. Competably is the price of a coffee — and the free P11 formatter is yours just for joining.

Questions, answered

The things you’re actually wondering.

It’s coaching, not ghostwriting. Competably does what a $500 coach does — it structures and sharpens your real experience into the language assessors score, in your own voice. It never invents experience, and the words are yours to edit before you submit.
I’m Luca, the founder, and I’ve been on both sides of this. I spent years inside the UN and other international organizations, and I applied for these jobs dozens of times myself, with my share of rejections. I’ve also screened hundreds of P11s, CVs and cover letters, so I know what gets someone shortlisted. Competably is the tool I wish I’d had. It’s independent and not affiliated with the UN.
You can paste a vacancy into a free chatbot, but it doesn’t know the UN’s competency framework, so it writes answers that read well and score badly. Worse, it invents experience you don’t have, which is dangerous in a process that checks consistency later. And it can’t tell you whether your answer is actually good enough. Competably is built on what assessors look for: it scores each answer the way a panel would, shows you how to strengthen it, fits the portal’s exact character limit, and never makes anything up. You’re not paying for AI. You’re paying for knowing what “good” looks like.
No. Competably works beside the portal. You copy each answer in yourself — it’s already sized to the form’s exact character limit. It does not auto-fill fields and never auto-applies on your behalf.
Never. It only works from what you provide, and it asks you for a real example when it needs one. No fabricated stories, no borrowed achievements — just your own experience, expressed well.
Your email and any documents you share are EU-hosted, encrypted, used only to help your applications, and deletable in one click. We never sell your data.
No. You buy credits per application — $9 for one, $19 for three, $39 for ten. Nothing recurring. Everyone who joins the waitlist also gets the P11 / PHP formatter free.
It’s built for applicants to the UN and international organizations that use competency-based assessment and forms like the P11 / PHP — UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, UNHCR and similar. Competably is independent and not affiliated with any of them.
English at launch — Competably drafts and scores applications in English, which covers the large majority of UN vacancies. French is next on the roadmap. And if English isn’t your first language, that’s exactly who it’s built for: it turns your real experience into clear, assessor-ready English.

Be first when Competably opens.

Competably launches summer 2026. Join and I’ll email you the free “7 mistakes” guide right away — plus the P11 / PHP formatter the day it ships.