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[quote=Anonymous]Most of my friends at the World Bank started off doing short term consultancies.  Many of those consultancies are de facto full time jobs (at least in terms of pay) but you can only work X days per year (maybe 180?).

Friends I had coming out of grad school (SAIS) definitely didn't have PhDs or even really specualized technical expertise beyond a couple years in Peace Corps or some internships, plus some Econ coursework.

I think most found jobs by doing lots of informational interviews and getting offered consultancies that weren't being advertised.

My advice -- besides doing info interviews -- is to come up with a narrative for how your recent experience links back to what you want to do now and what you studied.  If you've been working on IT recently and your degree is in international affairs, maybe focus on the WB offices that work on something related -- expanding internet coverage, on-line banking for the poor, etc.

Search WB publications related to things that interest you and track down the authors (they're very often not especially high level).

Good luck.[/quote]

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