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Editorial - European Personnel Selection Office
Have you considered a public service career
for Europe?
The EU Institutions offer worthwhile,
challenging and rewarding careers. We seek
to attract applications from highly motivated,
competent people with a wide range of skills
and experience, from policy administrators
and lawyers, to translators, interpreters and
secretaries as well as support specialists
from many fields and from all the geographic
regions and cultures of Europe.
The European Personnel Selection Office
(EPSO) is the central service that selects staff
for recruitment by the European Institutions:
these being the European Parliament, the
Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice,
the Court of Auditors, the Ombudsman,
the Economic and Social Committee, the
Committee of the Regions, and many other
agencies of the EU.
These Institutions offer continuous training
throughout your career, and positively
encourage you to develop your skills and
interests in new professional fields as you
progress. There is a linear career structure
from the entry grades to the most senior of
positions, with the performance, training
/ skills development needs and promotion
prospects of all staff being formally reviewed
annually.
The European Personnel Selection Office
selects candidates through a range of
open competitions, which are currently
being modernised to better assess people's
competences and in-job abilities, rather than
their knowledge of the EU alone.
To be eligible for a competition, you need to
be able to work in at least 2 of the 23 official
languages of the EU. With the exception
of linguist specialists (interpreters and
translators) we do not ask for any academic
qualification in your second language, but
we will test your ability to communicate in
this clearly, both in writing and orally. If
you have English as a mother-tongue, you
would be required to undertake our selection
competition in either French or German (as
your 2nd language). If this is not a problem,
then we want to hear from you!
To find out more visit our website
The competition for places is tough - preparation is essential
- yet the effort is worth making!
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