EPSO

CBT training offer

Generation 2004 is organising computer-based multiple-choice test (CBT) training to provide you with techniques to pass the Contract Agents selection tool (CAST) or the CBT phase of any European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) competition.

The final objective is to guarantee that candidates master the CBT methodology. The training sessions will go through the theory of the exercises and share a practical methodology and exercises for practice at home, with the possibility of addressing doubts in the following session. Continue reading CBT training offer

Online training courses for the EPSO assessment centre and the secretary concours (SC 1 and SC 2)

Is your EPSO exam approaching and you want to prepare properly?

Ya Semos Europeos (YSE), a training company Generation 2004 has teamed up with in the past to deliver courses for colleagues in the Commission, is offering online training sessions to exercise and reply to your individual questions on the EPSO assessment centre and the recently announced secretary concours SC 1 and SC 2. Continue reading Online training courses for the EPSO assessment centre and the secretary concours (SC 1 and SC 2)

Online training courses for the EPSO assessment centre

Is your EPSO assessment centre exam approaching (even if for now postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis) and you want to prepare properly?

Ya Semos Europeos (YSE), a training company Generation 2004 has teamed up with in the past to deliver courses for colleagues in the Commission, is offering online training sessions to exercise and reply to your individual questions on the EPSO assessment centre. Continue reading Online training courses for the EPSO assessment centre

Speakers’ Corner: Sprachenpolitik / in / les institutions européennes

G2004 Newsletter #9

NEW – the “Speakers’ Corner”
Beginning with this edition of our newsletter, the “speakers’ corner” is intended to provide a space where anyone can express an individual opinion which does not necessarily have to be the official opinion of Generation 2004. Please send us your contributions for coming editions.

The somewhat inconsistent sprachenpolitik dans les institutions européennes – a politically incorrect proposal for refurbishing the tower of Babel – by “the rock” from Ispra
One of the lesser known features of the 2004 staff regulations reform was the introduction of what is commonly known as the third language requirement. In the beautiful prose of the legislator, it is stated that “officials shall be required to demonstrate before their first promotion after recruitment the ability to work in a third language among those referred
to in … the EC Treaty.” Continue reading Speakers’ Corner: Sprachenpolitik / in / les institutions européennes