Tips and tricks

What is a talent screener?

14 practical tips based on the screening of 196 CVs: what to do, not to do, types of jobs and EU careers. 

Three brand new videos have been added to our growing collection of helpful tips and tricks about the EPSO exams. Read on to find out more!

This article was published on 1 April and its content should be considered accordingly 

In this tips and tricks article, we describe a method that is very helpful in solving timetable-type questions in EPSO AST (EU assistant) organising and prioritising tests. Let's take a look at an example where you have to not just take a train but a ferry as well to get to a meeting, and you need to figure out how long you can tay if you want to make it back home the same day. To mix things up a bit, you also need to get a cab at the ferry port to get to the meeting.

EU career candidates often wonder who the "assessors" are in their EPSO Assessment Centre and whether they really are able to provide an impartial, professional evaluation of their performance at the EPSO exam.

We organised a great live Question & Answer webcast on 24 October 2012 with hundreds of participants asking many interesting questions. The selection of the most relevant and interesting ones is below.

I have recently been invited to an EU agency when I applied for a post of a temporary agent as secretary assistant. As many candidates are wondering how such interviews are conducted (considering that they are different from the EPSO competitions), it is probably interesting for others if I share my experience.

In talking to Online EU Training users, one of the main requests we hear is for explanations for numerical reasoning tests to be much more detailed. We are here to report that we are already working on this!