Online EU Training

• What is your chance to pass an EPSO exam? Check our interactive calculator!

  October 1, 2010 Category: Online EU Training

  Press ‘Click to Edit’ and Input the numbers! How likely you are to pass an EU competition?

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• Get an EU job (part 3): Keywords, findability and your CV

  September 17, 2010 Category: Online EU Training

  In the age of Google and Facebook, being findable has become the most important asset you can have. After all, to get an EU job in the age of electronic databases, there is only one word to remember: findability.

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• Luck is…

  September 14, 2010 Category: Online EU Training

  …when opportunity meets preparedness.Are you prepared enough for your EPSO exam so you can make the most of an unexpectedly straight-forward numercial reasoning question set?

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• The Maslow Pyramid of Internet Needs

  September 14, 2010 Category: Online EU Training

  The Maslow pyramid, or the hierarchy of needs, is a well known concept of the basic and higher-level needs of human beings. Did you know that the same exists for Internet users?

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• How you recruit is who you get (even in the EU)

  September 14, 2010 Category: Online EU Training

  Why do “ordinary” EU officials-to-be need to go through an assessment centre and be tested on 7 competencies while anyone on the top of EU institutions, including MEPs, judges and others have a much less objective selection procedure where bias is built into the system (save for exceptions)?

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• It’s no joyride to be an EU Commissioner these days

  September 14, 2010 Category: Online EU Training

  Did you think EU Commissioners have an easy or safe job? Think again! Since the Lisbon Treaty entered into force, their life and moral safety is under threat: the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church has just issued a scathing statement, which, in our view, may even endanger Ukraine’s (anyways uncertain) EU accession..!!

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• Get an EU job (part 2): Your job application e-mail settings

  September 14, 2010 Category: Online EU Training

  Whether you apply to work for an EU agency, a Brussels job in EU affairs, a temporary job at an EU diplomatic mission or elsewhere, you will almost certainly send your application via e-mail: providing a cover message (the e-mail body) and a CV attached. Sounds simple – except when your message is not even delivered to the future employer. How is that possible?

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• Kissinger and the EU phone number

  September 14, 2010 Category: Online EU Training

  One of the most commonly held urban legends in EU circles is the saying attributed to Henry Kissinger of “Who do I call if I want to call Europe?”. As the FT revealed, he never actually said it. But how could it hold on so long there in Brussels and beyond?

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• I am interested to get an EU job because…

  September 14, 2010 Category: Online EU Training

  We asked our Facebook fans why they are interested in getting an EU job and an amazing 39 answers were given. Here are the reasons why European job seekers are looking to work for the European Union in Brussels (only first names are shown for privacy) – a fascinating read!

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• Get an EU job (part 1): Find your niche

  September 14, 2010 Category: Online EU Training

  As the famous quote says: “Know something about everything and everything about something”. So what are you waiting for..?

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