*Update 10.12.2024, here is the recording & Presentation of the session. Generation 2004, in collaboration with Yasemos Europeos, is happy to offer you a free online training for Internal competitions to share with you, tips for the application process as well as an analysis of the tests (MCQ test on EU policies and institutions, Written test and Oral test). There will be a Q&A session after the presentation. Continue reading Free training offer: Internal competitions AD5/AD6/AST2/ASTSC2 – Tips and tricks
Internal Competitions
AST & AST-SC staff: ECA Report Highlights Long-Standing Career Challenges
*Update 20.12.2024, Here’s our Note to HR on European Court of Auditors Special report.pdf.*
*Update 22.11.2024, thanks to all of you who attended the event today. Here is the presentation, our AST FAQ and our summary of AST/SC issues.* Continue reading AST & AST-SC staff: ECA Report Highlights Long-Standing Career Challenges
ASTs: exploited and forgotten or given a future?
*Update 21.11.2024 check out the European Court of Auditors, 2024, Special report 24/2024: EU Civil service–A flexible employment framework, insufficiently used to improve workforce management: it concludes that ‘…the institutions do not focus on imbalances in the SC and AST function groups in their analysis, and concentrate instead on the AD group, and in particular the starting grades (AD5-AD8).‘ (P. 51) Check out their corresponding chart on p.51 showing the huge and unaddressed imbalances in AST and AST/SC function groups. Why on Earth choose to focus efforts on middle management, on part of a function group?[*] Where’s the global vision? Why tackle the hard stuff?* Continue reading ASTs: exploited and forgotten or given a future?
Time to put an end to the career blockage of AST/SC staff
*Update 21.11.2024 check out the European Court of Auditors, 2024, Special report 24/2024: EU Civil service – A flexible employment framework, insufficiently used to improve workforce management: it concludes that ‘…the institutions do not focus on imbalances in the SC and AST function groups in their analysis, and concentrate instead on the AD group, and in particular the starting grades (AD5-AD8).‘ (P. 51) Check out their corresponding chart on p.51. Why on Earth focus efforts on part of a function group?[*] Where’s the global vision? Why tackle the hard stuff?* Continue reading Time to put an end to the career blockage of AST/SC staff
Training offer: Internal competitions AD5/AD6/AST2/ASTSC2
*Update 21.11.24: note the change of session dates in the below table (marked in red)*. Dates have been updated to better fit the competitions timetable*. Generation 2004, in collaboration with Yasemos Europeos, is happy to offer you online training for Internal competitions with a special discount rate for our members ONLY. Continue reading Training offer: Internal competitions AD5/AD6/AST2/ASTSC2
Learning sessions on internal competitions – Oral test
We are organising further training with our partners Yasemos Europeos to help you on competition processes, but in the meantime here is what is on offer under “career related training” in EU LEARN, for candidates who are through to the ‘ORAL TEST’ stage of an EU competition having already passed any required Written Test and/or Presentation.
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Internal competition – clarification COM/AD5/2023
Generation 2004 wrote to HR (22.12.2023) for clarification regarding the ongoing internal competition for AD5, COM/AD5/2023. It looked like the candidates had already done the multiple choice questions (MCQ) test (13.12.2023) while the selection board had not yet been finalised (applications ran until 22.12.2023). HR have since clarified that, since the call for applications for selection-board members was not specific to this competition (5 competitions are mentioned there), a selection board was indeed in place before the COM/AD5/2023 MCQ took place. Continue reading Internal competition – clarification COM/AD5/2023
One step forward in our fight: internal competition for AST & AST/SC (+training offer)
*Update 23.05.2024, COM/AST3/2024 competition exam date will be June 5, 2024. Enrolment on COM AST3 training with follow up sessions are closed. Registration for the self-study option is still open. *Update 02.05.2024 COM/AST3/2024 indicative planning has been updated, but still not precise enough to allow for holiday planning. Continue reading One step forward in our fight: internal competition for AST & AST/SC (+training offer)
Are we testing competences or IT setup?
We don’t normally publish the full text of a note as an article but, given the known IT incompatibilities, we do so here: we want to make this text available to colleagues regardless of where they are based. Please find below a slightly abridged version of the note we sent to HR (internal exams) and EPSO (certification exams) with a copy to all relevant DGs and IT services.
Generation 2004 requests that EPSO and HR engage with colleagues and services in order to address the known compatibility issues between the different EU institution[1] IT environments and the online testing/exam platforms used[2] (whether EPSO or internal exams, the issues encountered overlap). Continue reading Are we testing competences or IT setup?
Training offer for External Competitions
Generation 2004, in collaboration with Yasemos Europeos, is happy to offer you online training and webinars to assist you with preparing for the external competitions. A discount rate is offered to Generation 2004 members, see below. All seminars will be in English.
