Contract Agents are recruited to perform temporary manual or administrative support tasks or to provide additional capacity in specialised fields whenever there is an insufficient number of officials with the required skills, and they are selected with the CAST Permanent procedure by the EU institutions, bodies and agencies. The word CAST stands for Contract Agents Selection Tool. Permanent means that there is no deadline to apply, so candidates can submit an application at any time. The procedure requires creating an EPSO account and inserting personal, professional and educational...

The pandemic slowed us down but we got back on track! We ended March 2023, with no more ‘backlog’. The 2020 and 2021 competition cycles have been finalised. It’s a wrap! In 2022 alone, EPSO published 34 reserve lists, resulting in more than 1400 successful candidates. Since the start of 2023, EPSO published 13 reserve lists, resulting in more than 500 successful candidates. That’s close to 2000 successful candidates from a variety of academic and professional profiles, ready to be recruited by the EU institutions. Heartfelt congratulations to all who passed our competitions published in 2020...

EPSO’s Director has decided to cancel Competition EPSO/AST/154/22 – Assistants (AST3), Accounting, Finance and Communication, with the support of EPSO’s governing body, the interinstitutional Management Board. EPSO and its Management Board came to this conclusion after taking into consideration a number of accumulated difficulties surrounding this competition, in particular as regards the implementation of remotely proctored tests, including technical dysfunctions and data protection concerns. Some of these issues can be explained by the fact that this was the first large scale competition...

The European Parliament’s Positive Action selection procedure for people with disabilities is now open! Every year, the European Parliament runs a positive action selection procedure specifically for people with disabilities to gain a first working experience at the EP. The procedure is open to all profiles and backgrounds for people with a long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairment of minimum 20%, which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. Apply before 25 April 2023 (17:00...

The European Parliament is organising a selection procedure for the recruitment of permanent officials to the Directorate-General for Finance (DG FINS). The selection procedure aims to find suitable candidates to work as SAP Business Analysts in Luxembourg. DG FINS is looking for professionals that will assist in managing and maintaining the European Parliament SAP S4HANA platform. The selection procedure mainly aims to fill vacant posts in the FMS Competence Centre Unit in Luxembourg. Recruitment will be done at grades AD 6 and AD 9. The European Parliament is looking for 10 successful...

The European Parliament is organising a selection procedure for the recruitment of temporary staff for the Parliament’s Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support (DG ITEC) in Brussels or Luxembourg. The selection procedure aims to find suitable candidates to work as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Security Professionals. You can find detailed information on the job and the selection procedure at Apply4EP. Apply before 22 April 2024, 17.00 (Luxembourg time).

Every year, at the Council, there are around 100 places available for paid traineeships, and up to 6 places for paid trainees with a disability. What can you expect from your traineeship? A traineeship at the General Secretariat of the Council (GSC) offers: first-hand experience of the work of the GSC EU knowledge - insight into the processes and policies of the EU institutions an opportunity to contribute to the Council's day-to-day business the chance to work in a multicultural, multilingual and multi-ethnic environment an opportunity to share your fresh point of view and the knowledge you...

On 31 January, EPSO’s governing body, the interinstitutional Management Board, decided to drop oral tests from EPSO’s selection procedures, as part of a fundamental rethink of the current selection process. Competitions will put greater emphasis on candidates’ qualifications and on a set of written tests, all to be conducted in one testing session. All tests will be done online via remotely proctored testing. With a ‘competition phase’ based exclusively on written tests, it will be possible for EPSO to strive to reduce competition timelines to just 6 months, and, eventually, less. Following...

The European Parliament, besides offering traineeships in its Secretariat (the so-called Schuman traineeships) also offers Traineeships with Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). MEPs may offer paid traineeships at their offices in the premises of the European Parliament in Brussels (or Strasbourg) based on an agreement with the European Parliament. The duration of the traineeship is between six weeks and five consecutive months, and is decided on by the Member of Parliament who awards the traineeship. It can start at any time during the year. Trainees are awarded a monthly grant of...

It is now possible for you to receive e-mail updates on the selection procedure(s) of your interest. Once subscribed, you will be notified each time EPSO publishes important information such as: updates of the timeline of the selection procedure, (i.e. the publication of the booking period of the reasoning skills tests) publication of the number of applications publication of a news item (i.e. the extension of a deadline or a competition's reserve list) To subscribe, just fill in your e-mail in the subscription box on the page of the selection procedure(s) concerned (see image below). Figure 1...