Press Release: Recruitment: EPSO launches search for translators and interpreters for EU institutions

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) is launching new competitions to find interpreters and translators to work in the European Union institutions. On 13 July 2010, EPSO will begin the selection procedure for translators into Danish, German, English, French and Slovenian. A week later, it will launch competitions for interpreters into Bulgarian, English, Dutch, Romanian and Slovenian. These are the first of EPSO's new annual recruitment drives for linguists, which will take place every summer. They are also the first linguist competitions under the new, streamlined selection procedures first unveiled in March 2010. For translators, recruitment will be at graduate entry grade ('AD5'), while for interpreters, recruitment will be at both AD5 and the AD7 grade, which requires more professional experience. EPSO will be running selection procedures for linguists every year as part of its new annual cycle, designed to allow potential candidates to know consistently when they can apply for an EU career. The languages will change from year to year, based on the recruitment needs of the institutions and agencies.

European Commission: SPEECH/10/376: Press Conference on the recruitment of interpreters and translators for the EU institutions http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/376&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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