TemporaryJobs-EPSO-QUIZ

…………………… may be employed to perform a wide variety of tasks, within one of the following categories:
(a) for non-standard (highly specialised jobs) or non-permanent tasks;
(b) to make up for staff shortages in cases where competition reserve lists have been exhausted;
(c) for Commissioners’ private offices (‘cabinets’) during their term in office.
(d) for specific requirements in the scientific sector.

………………….. have a dual role: they bring their experience of the issues they are used to dealing with to the Commission, and take back to their home administration the knowledge of EU issues which they acquire during their period of secondment.

……………….. run for 5 months and usually start on1st March and 1st October.

If a Directorate-General wants to recruit a temporary agent for a highly-specialised job or temporary task, they will send the job notice and the profile of the person they are looking to recruit to the ………………….. Representations of the Member States and also publish it on the EPSO website. They may also publish the vacancy on their own DG website; so it is worth checking these sites regularly if there is a particular DG where you would particularly like to work.

As a …………………………. you are hired either for manual and administrative support tasks or temporarily to replace officials absent due to illness, maternity leave, etc. or as a response to acute staff shortages at times of intense work pressure or to undertake work for a temporary period providing additional capacity in specialised fields where officials with the required skills are not available.

EU institutions offer two five-month periods of ……………………… training (‘stages’) for people who have recently obtained a university diploma and who wish to gain work experience in one of the Commission’s departments. The programme has been running for 45 years and more than 30,000 people have benefited from this five-month taste of life at the Commission among them many European civil servants are ex-stagiaires and even some European Commissioners!

Seconded national experts (SNEs) are typically seconded from the civil services of EU countries, so the vast majority are national, regional or local …………………….

The selection process for contract agents begins with candidates filling in on-line applications in response to call for …………………….. published on the EPSO website. These applications are then stored in a database.