UN consultancy/contractor applications: a black box?

[EliEverIsAHero]

Have applied to well over 100 on inspira over the past six months, many if not most applications have been sitting at "under consideration" (some for about that long), and the closest thing to a lucky break was taking the psychometric HR evaluation for one role.  

I'm assuming this is fairly typical of UN HR bureaucracy? If so, this makes the US government's HR systems (which I'm also quite familiar with) look like Barry Allen.

[Mint Berry Crunch]

I'm assuming this is fairly typical of UN HR bureaucracy? If so, this makes the US government's HR systems (which I'm also quite familiar with) look like Barry Allen.

Government systems now being compared to Barry Allen... have we reached new heights lol