Recruitment
Permanent internal staff (officials) are usually recruited through open competitions, organised by the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO), for all professions. In parralel, temporary or contract agents are recruited through calls for applications, expressions of interest, or unsolicited applications.
Recruitment within the Court’s language service, the Directorate-General for Multilingualism (DGM), like all the services of the EU institutions, is mainly done through competitions organised by the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO). This principle applies to all professions. The competitions are adapted to their specificities and include tests of various kinds.
Exceptionally, when an open competition is not possible, an internal competition may be conducted.
Selection procedures for temporary staff are a necessary complement to competitions, particularly for the purpose of meeting foreseeable replacement needs (maternity, parental, family leave, etc.) that are limited in time. A number of inter-institutional tools are of invaluable assistance when selecting temporary staff, such as the CAST lists: those lists, managed by EPSO, help locate candidates who can be employed quickly as contract or temporary staff in the fields of legal translation, proofreading, language editing and secretarial work. Interpreters may also be recruited as temporary staff to cover vacant posts. Candidates are selected from the accredited interpreters on the joint list shared between the Commission, the Parliament and the Court.
The inter-institutional database ‘EU CV online’ centralises applications received in response to a permanent call for applications or a specific call for expressions of interest, as well as spontaneous applications.
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