European Personnel Selection Office

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO, the European Personnel Selection Office English ) is an agency of the European Union with the task to unify the pre-selection of employees of the institutions of the European Union. The Office was established on 26 July 2002.

Depending on the needs of the Institutions, EPSO competitions with the aim of writes to set up reserve lists of candidates for certain career fields. Only from this reserve lists to select the institutions later employees for permanent settings.

Most exceeds the number of applicants by far the number of prescribed courses; a ratio of 100:1 is not uncommon. To cope with the rush, the procedure is highly standardized. The application is usually done via the Internet. Meanwhile, EPSO is also started to conduct selection tests online in test centers. Otherwise, the selection tests are often performed simultaneously in all the official languages ​​of the European Union.

Since March 2010, the EU selection is extensively modified.