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The EU needs you! London 18th October 2010

The EU needs you! London 18th October 2010 David Bearfield, Director, European Personnel Selection Office. Significant staff turnover in EU Institutions for the next decade; Need to compete successfully in the « war for talent »; Major overhaul of outdated and slow selection process.

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The EU needs you! London 18th October 2010

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  1. The EU needs you! London 18th October 2010 David Bearfield, Director, European Personnel Selection Office

  2. Significant staff turnover in EU Institutions for the next decade; • Need to compete successfully in the « war for talent »; • Major overhaul of outdated and slow selection process. The need for change

  3. European Commission: 32140 members of staff: 1463 (4.6%) are British Council: 3549 members of staff: 145 (4.1%) are British UK made up only 1.44% of applicant pool for the 2010 administrator cycle - compared to 12.28% of EU total population. British situation in the European Institutions

  4. 2010 Administrators’ competition:Participation by Member State Participation by nationality Green = most highly represented Red = least represented

  5. Recruitment by open competition on an annual basis: • March: Graduate Administrators; • July/August: Linguists (translators/interpreters); • December: Assistants; • During the year: Specialist jobs. • Speeding up selection procedure from 16 months to between 5 and 9 months. New selection procedures for new times

  6. Fundamental shift from testing knowledge to testing competency; • 2-stage selection process for graduate administrators: • Computer-based pre-selection tests; • Introduction of Assessment Centres. A new way of testing

  7. Are highly skilled, resilient and motivated to succeed, learn and develop; • Have a desire to make a difference and who can and want to help shape Europe and the world; • Enjoy working in multicultural teams; • - Deliver results; We are looking for people who

  8. For all grades: • - Analysis and Problem Solving; • - Communicating; • - Delivering Quality and Results; • - Learning and Development; • - Prioritising and Organising; • - Resilience ; • Working with Others; • For AD grades: • + Leadership A 7+1 Competency framework

  9. Lawyer linguists Macro-economic analysts Translators Typical jobs Policy officers - all EU policy from climate change, to the recession and many more! Delegations all over the world! Interpreters Desk officer for different countries Scientists Lawyers Multilingual PA

  10. Improve employer image of the EU; • A new employer brand; • Making the EU more relevant to today’s job seekers; • - More efforts to achieve better geographical balance, and to attract people with disabilities, as well as people from different ethnic backgrounds. Winning the war for talent

  11. Branding • The EU Careers visual identity is available for use by all EU Institutions and agencies- as well as YOU, our partners in Member States’ governments. Web 2.0 EU Careers Facebook page now has over 20,000 fans. • For info: the revised EPSO logo will be used for office and administrative purposes.

  12. EU Careers Ambassadors • Pilot programme to raise awareness of EU Careers amongst students. • The ‘Ambassadors’ will receive a training session in Brussels to help them know how to promote EU Careers to their peers. • Being tested at 18 Universities in 6 of the countries where we still struggle to get an appropriate number of applicants. • For the UK: Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Durham and King's College, London.

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