Are you curious about the New HR Strategy currently under discussion? Were you asked to contribute to the interservice consultation?
Join us on Monday 14 February at 12:00 to get more information on this long process that started in 2020 and share with us your ideas and your vision for the future. Connection details are in the newsletter email (10.02.2022). Continue reading New HR Strategy: join the discussion to shape the Commission of tomorrow!
How much does the move to hot-desking (‘dynamic’) and open-plan Offices matter with the move to hybrid working? It will only be 40% presence in any given week, you can tolerate 2 days, right? And we’re not going back to the office just yet, so it’s not a worry for the moment! Regardless, the move to hot-desking and open-plan offices for thousands of staff continues apace during a pandemic that is showing no sign of slowing. Have you considered what that entails? Continue reading It’s only for 2 days a week! hot-desking and buildings
*Update 09.10.2023 please participate in the Commission survey on the environmental impact of teleworking: deadline 11.10.2023. These emmissions must also be counted in greening the Commission!**Update November 2022, we have republished this survey in order to make a comparison, please participate!* *Update March 2022: 1193 colleagues responded to our additional teleworking costs survey: only 2.85% saw no utility-bill increase. With 27% of respondents seeing their monthly bills increase by a total of 51-100 EUR.* Continue reading The hidden costs of teleworking – and now energy prices!
Here is the presentation(note that the timetable for reclassification is slightly different) and here is the recording. To access you must be connected to ECAS, and some browsers work better than others. If you have any difficulties, contact us and we’ll send the presentation to you.)
If you expect to be promoted/reclassified in 2022 or even just want to understand what happens behind the scenes between the self-assessment and the publication of the draft lists in June, this is the event for you: we will shed some light on the mystery! This builds on our recent presentation on the self-assessment where we offered one-to-one assistance. Continue reading How to increase your chances to get a promotion/reclassification in 2022?
*Check out our 20.01.2022 update on this very topic*
2022 is here and with it comes the annual appraisal exercise [1] (Commission staff: 5 January for the launch of appraisal self-assessments and 12 January for reclassification self-assessments). It is crucial to understand how this works because it will play a huge part in how your career will progress.
Generation 2004 organises a conference to explain and offer tips. We cover how to prepare your self-assessment and your one-on-one interview with your reporting officer [2]. Continue reading 2022 appraisal and promotion/reclassification exercises conference
Generation 2004 is organising more training: computer-based multiple-choice test (CBT) training and AD5 internal competition training.
CBT (verbal, numerical, abstract) in English
This training is to provide you with techniques to pass the CBT phase of any European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) competition. Check ongoing EPSO selection procedures for CBT dates. Continue reading EPSO CBT/internal competition training: January
*Update 08.07.2022: you can also take the same action (apply and appeal the rejection) for the 2022 internal competitions. We are also organising training for August 2022.*
Another Internal Competition has just been announced which is exclusively open to Temporary Agents (TAs), i.e. mainly cabinet staff (‘parachutage’?) as well as our JPP ”Jeunesse dorée”. Oops HR did it again Continue reading New competition – same old story!
The electoral campaigns are already ongoing and Generation 2004 has the pleasure to invite you to specific meetings dedicated to the following topics: Continue reading SAVE THE DATE for meetings this week and next
Want to start imagining and planning your transition towards retirement – but not sure how to do it? This is no longer a destination, but a journey.
Project 55+ is a practical 5-week community experience that will help you create, discover, refine and implement your transition project, during your final years at the Commission/EU Institutions, towards a successful new beginning that is uniquely yours. Continue reading Project 55+ transition towards retirement
We are living in crucial times, when we see our working conditions radically changing for the worse without the proper involvement of staff and their representatives.
This concerns in particular the ongoing move to hot-desking for thousands of staff during a pandemic that is now reaching its fourth wave. And the closure of most canteens and cafeterias, many of which will not reopen, according to the Office for Infrastructure and Logistics in Brussels (OIB) plans. Continue reading Meeting on Buildings, restaurants, cafeterias & return to the office
