Generation 2004, in cooperation with Ya Semos Europeos, has organised a webinar on the application and competition process for the internal competitions in the External Action Service (EEAS). These don’t happen very often and we understand that you want to make the best of this opportunity.
We focus on practical aspects of the application:
- work experience requirements
- tips for the talent screener for those competitions which have it
- the most common mistakes done by the candidates
You can find the PowerPoint presentation here.
*Update 08.09.2023 EPSO intends to use 
*Update 19.02.2025: ‘By default, all [internal] competitions will be cross-category.’ (
*Update 19.02.2025: ‘By default, all [internal] competitions will be cross-category.’ (
Our institution as well as our working and private lives have, in the recent past, undergone substantial change. So much so that the word reorganisation stopped soliciting any surprise. We are used to it and it happens everywhere and at reasonably regular intervals, such as before the arrival of a new Commission or Cabinets: the outgoing one might look to perhaps reshuffle things in order to 
*Update 09.10.2025 we see that the internal competitions to allow flexibility in terms of which language is used as the first language (see p.6 of the 
*The presentations from previous events can be found at the bottom of this article.*
EPSO CAST vs. CAST PERMANENT
We are in April and DG HR has not yet provided competition planning (provisional or otherwise). We do not think that this will change any time soon. Even if the planning was to become available now, the ongoing exclusion of certain staff categories (16 000 potentially eligible staff) from internal competitions requires action and the most recent example of this is the internal competition published at the end of the last year (