C 241 A/8
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
24.6.2022
A list of the candidates who have submitted their applications in accordance with the arrangements stipulated and by the closing date will be drawn up by the appointing authority and forwarded to the selection board together with the files.
These candidates will be invited to take the pre-selection test in the form of a set of computer-based MCQ.
The test will be marked by computer.
Candidates will receive via their Apply4EP accounts examples of the questions and instructions on how to take the MCQ test.
The talent evaluator form is attached to the competition notice.
You must complete it and upload it in the appropriate place in Apply4EP by the deadline for submission of applications set in the competition notice.
In order to select the candidates who will be invited to the written tests, the selection board will check the marks obtained in the talent evaluator and assess compliance with the general and specific eligibility criteria, taking the candidates in descending order of the marks obtained in the MCQ test.
The selection board will then assess the candidates whose qualifications (in particular diplomas, knowledge of languages and professional experience) are most relevant to the duties to be performed and to the selection criteria set out in the competition notice.
The selection board will base its assessment solely on the answers given by candidates in the talent evaluator, and it will discontinue its assessment once the maximum number of persons who may be admitted to the next stage in the competition has been reached.
In order to make a selection on the basis of qualifications, the selection board will consider the answers given by candidates in the talent evaluator.
Between 0 and 4 points will be awarded for each answer.
The selection board may decide to apply a weighting of between 1 and 3 to each selection criterion, depending on its degree of importance.
In that event, the points awarded for each answer will be multiplied by the weighting coefficient.
Each candidate’s points will be added up with a view to identifying the persons whose profiles match most closely the duties to be performed.
If more than one candidate has obtained a points total qualifying them for the last place available, all the candidates concerned will be admitted to the next stage in the competition.
The application files and talent evaluators of the candidates who fall below the threshold will not be considered. 2.3.
Tests All the tests are compulsory and eliminatory.
The maximum number of candidates who can be admitted to the tests is specified in the competition notice.
Details of the tests and the marks that can be awarded for them are given in section B.2 of the competition notice.
Technical details — Online tests (MCQ and written tests) A service provider has been contracted by the European Parliament to run the online written tests.
You will need a computer (desktop or laptop) with: — Microsoft Windows 7 operating system or later, or Apple OS X 10.11 ‘Yosemite’ or later for Mac, — minimum 1 GB of free space on the hard disk, — a front-facing camera connected to or built into your computer, — an internet connection, — 4 GB of RAM.
You will be informed, in advance of the tests, of any changes to the above minimum technical requirements resulting from any software updates.
The operating systems XP, Vista and lower, Windows 10 S, Windows ARM (RT), MacOS lower than 10.11, iOS (iPad, iPhone), Android, Chromebook, Virtual Machine, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.) and 32-bit OS are not suitable.