EU Careers Charlotte Sanderson Senior EU Staffing Officer

EU Careers
EU Careers
Charlotte Sanderson
Senior EU Staffing Officer
EU Staffing Unit
Charlotte Sanderson
Senior EU Staffing Officer
[email protected]
Background
• PM’s speech
• Key Government priority
• EU Staffing Unit has two objectives:
• Increase the number of SNE’s by 60 by 2016
• Increase the number of people applying for the
concours via an outreach programme
– UK heavily under represented
So why a Career in the EU?
Opportunities as EU Officials
Commission officials are divided into 2 main roles:
• Administrator (AD) – Policy making, Economics, Law,
Finance, Audit, Statistics
• Assistant (AST) – Administrative
support, Finance, IT, Secretaries,
Human Resources
Permanent Opportunities
Eligibility:
• Citizen of an EU Member State
• Graduated with a University degree
• Thorough knowledge of one of the official EU
languages
• Satisfactory knowledge of a second – at least one of
which must be English, French or German
Selection Process
Selected by open competitions organised by the
European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO).
• Administrators: 13 March 2014 (very soon!)
• Administrators linguists: July 2014
• Assistants: December 2013
Special profiles have competitions throughout the year,
eg: Lawyer Linguist, Economist, Audit (March 2014)
Application process (9 months)
• Create your EPSO Account
• Complete online self assessment test
• Notice of Competition is published in the Official
Journal
• Complete and Validate Application form
All those who validate application are invited to CBT tests
• Pre-selection CBT tests:
• Verbal, Numerical and Abstrast in first language
• Situational judgement in second language
• Assessment Centre (second language)
– Case study (in the field)
- Group Exercise
– Oral Presentation
- Structured Interview
Abstract reasoning
Abstract reasoning
How to prepare?
Get in touch with us! [email protected]
CBT Tests:
• Gather material (UKinEU, Online, Books…)
• Practise with friends in real time and conditions
• Come to us for support
Assessment Centre:
• Mock AC
• Personnal coaching
• Practise with friends
• UKinEU
Other Opportunities
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Traineeships
MEP Assistant
Temporary Agent
Contract Agent
European Faststream
Traineeships
Eligibility:
What is it?
• Bachelors degree
• 5 month posting
• 2 placement rounds per • very good knowledge of
year (Spring and Autumn) English or French or
German.
• Paid by the Institutions,
• very good knowledge of a
approx €1000/month
• Great for networking and second EU official
experiencing Brussels life. language...however...
Traineeships
Applications and Deadlines :
• Commission Blue Book
Autumn session deadline: 03/02/2014
• Council (June-August)
• European Parliament (mid May)
• Committee of the Regions (end March)
• OHIM (April)
• Apply via the traineeships office website
European Fast Stream
Four year programme from 2014
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Alignment to new GFS model
Assignment to UK Government department
At least two EU focused postings
Intensive Language Training (Fr / De)
Intensive five-day ‘Introduction to EU’ course
Targeted concours training
• computer based tests training
• assessment centre training
• A five month placement in the European Commission or
EEAS (NEPT)
• Collaborations / exchanges with other EU Member States
MEP Assistants
• Over 4000 staff assisting MEPs:
• In Brussels or constituencies
• Various roles and responsibilities
• Assistants and interns
• Requirements:
• Candidates need a passion for EU politics
• Lesser need for languages
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MP4U
Eurobrussels
Networking
European Elections – great timing
Temporary Agents
• Fixed-term contract (6 month to 6 years)
• Same conditions as EU civil servants
• Selection and recruitment of temporary staff is
generally run by individual EU institutions and
agencies.
Types of jobs for T.A. include:
• Ad hoc vacancies, mostly in agencies e.g:
o European Aviation Safety Agency, Germany
o Prevention and Communication Officer in
European Cybercrime Centre (Europol AD06), The
Netherlands
Contract Agents
• Terms and conditions:
• Short-term contract renewable
• Applications:
• CAST
• Commission open call for expression of interest: no
assessment centre!
• Ad hoc vacancies
• Types of jobs curentl advertised:
• Technical support officer, Join Research Centre, the
Netherlands
• Maritime Support Services Assistant, European Maritime
Safety Agency, Portugal
• Secretary, European Environment Agency, Denmark
Next steps
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Create and online EPSO account
Attempt the online self-assessment
Look out for publication of competition
APPLY!
• Get in touch with [email protected] if you need
any help/advice.
Questions?
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