Tips and tricks

Many EU exam candidates ask us for advice about 'the secret' to passing an EPSO exam. Like any other 'secret', there are many pieces to the puzzle that contribute to your success.

Candidates undertaking an EPSO competition will have the joy and pleasure of taking part in the Group Exercise at the Assessment Centre stage.

 

On 10 November, Online EU Training held a Live EPSO Case Study Webinar to give current EPSO candidates the best chance to excel in this component of the competition.  Following the lively engagement on this topic we collected and answered the most revealing questions asked during the session to share with you.

EPSO's annual report usually doesn't make it onto Amazon's best-seller list, so we did the reading for you and found the most interesting facts and figures. 

The importance of competency testing has significantly increased within the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO), so much so, that it takes centre stage in their selection processes. For example, the Situational Judgement Test (SJT) now accounts for 66% of an AD candidate’s total Pre-Selection test score. And while the E-tray exercise has been a part of the Assistants (AST) exam for a long time, starting this year (2015) the E-tray exercise (which further assesses a candidate’s strengths in certain competency areas), serves as an intermediate test between the Pre-Selection and the Assessment Centre phase of the AD exams.

The EPSO e-tray exercise has been a part of the Assistants (AST) exam for a long time, but from 2015 it became even more important when the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) decided to integrate this type of test into the Administrators (AD) competition process.

While practicing for the EPSO exams, have you ever come up against a question asking about your willingness to do overtime? This can be a rather difficult question to answer particularly if you don’t know the internal staff regulations of the EU Institutions and their stance on such matters.

Congratulations! You’ve excelled in the EPSO selection process and made it onto the Reserve List. Have you ever wondered what you’ll need to do once you get there?