BRUSSELS In Belgium, it is worth investing in an umbrella. Juuso Järviniemi The shadow is a firm act and it does not get annoyingly in the wind like the supplier’s shadow.
– For Finns, the weather may not be as heavy as some Spanish, Järviniemi ponders.
It rains in Brussels, once again and we go to the bookstore. There is a book on the shelf that Järviniemi was in the EU civil servant test. Its contents are as gray as the weather. The book has a lot of small text and hundreds of exercises.
The author of the book also organizes a couple of thousand euros coaching for EU official qualifiers. Järviniemi ended up buying it too.
– I did as much as possible in many areas to maximize my own opportunities and then it succeeded.
Järviniemi took part in an entrance examination for fixed-term employees of the EU institutions a year and a half ago. One hundred from about 700 applicants were selected.
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Järviniemi passed the exams and received a permanent position in the Digital Department of the EU Commission as a political expert.
Järviniemi has studied in the same school as Stubb
Järviniemi is from Kangasala from Tampere. He attended the European line at Lyseo High School in Tampere.
– I got there a bit by chance. I was interested in the languages and the history that was emphasized there.
Interest in the EU increased when the Finnish office of the European Parliament reportedly reported the EU line about studying and job opportunities elsewhere in Europe. Järviniemi went to Belgium and graduated from the College of Europe in Brugge. Also president Alexander Stubb has studied at school.
After his studies, Järviniemi became a trainee in the Commission.
Many Finns’ EU careers are for exams
Finns’ enthusiasm for applying for EU tasks has been reduced. Nor do we do well in EU entrance examinations.
Jenni Hakala is responsible for EU recruitment in Finland’s permanent mission in Brussels.
According to him, poor success is due to strange tests for Finns.
– That is the only reason that the search procedures are not well known. There are officials in use here and we have no similar ones in Finland.
The interviews have also gone under the bench in Finns.
– Here the interviews are structured, you need to know what the interviewer is looking for and answered for test questions. Again, the Finns have not done terribly well.
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The success of the Swedes is equally weak and the Danes will not succeed in competitions.
In the EU, mismatch is a major topic of discussion, as every Member State must have a relatively calculated number of employees in the EU institutions. Finland is about to go away from the goal.
Countries want their own races
In EU posts, under-represented countries would like national competitions, which would only participate in the country’s citizens.
– I personally consider it the only solution to this significant problem, says Jenni Hakala.
The European Parliament has already started country -specific competitions. They are underway for the Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg and Cyprus citizens.
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Parliament is trying ice with a stick, as uniform opportunities for posts are an important principle.
Indeed, a few Member States have taken the country-specific competitions to the EU Court.
France, Spain and Italy consider them discriminatory.
They have good test success and the number of EU staff. Belgium, Greece and Romania have also done well.
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Finland and 16 other countries hope that the court would not make national competitions.
Also EU Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) Leading Minna Vuorio says that country -specific competitions need to be considered.
According to Vuorio, Austria’s national search seems to have clearly increased applicants from previous few applicants to eight hundred.
The primary salary of $ 5,000 is rising rapidly
Finns switched to EU tasks when Finland joined the Union in January 1995. Many Finns advanced to good places. Now these people are gradually retiring and enough Finnish are coming to the farm.
In addition to search tests, long working days and family adaptation in Brussels are suspicious.
A lawyer or a technology expert can also get a better salary in Finland.
However, for many, the primary salary of more than € 5,000 is good and earnings increase rapidly with years of work. Taxation is light in EU tasks.
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For example, for Romanian, the salary level in the EU is quite different from Finland. It adds enthusiasm to read the entrance exams.
Among the trainees of Brussels, the fact that the EU is organizing a big exam for a long time this year.
It is estimated that there are 30,000 applicants and a few hundred can be passed through them.
After that, those who pass the screen will still have to wait for the job.
The Finnish applicant feels easily competing against Europe as a whole.
Normal reason is enough
Juuso Järviniemi sees country -specific competitions as a good idea for more Finnish colleagues.
However, as a test, he does not consider the current selection press overwhelming.
– With a good careful preparation, a person with normal -haired can get through, but you don’t have to be a top line.
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Järviniemi participates in the preparation of the laws and the preparation of Commissioners’ meetings and speeches.
His department now belongs to the Technology Commissioner Henna Virkkunen under the subject.
Thus, Virkkunen’s speeches include Järviniemi’s passage of thought.
– There are certainly many others, but officials write those speeches here.
Järviniemi is surprised at how much you need to look at the details at work.
– On the other hand, when you write speech to the Commissioner, of course, you have to think more about going out in the world, what the purpose is and for what these things are being done here.
The tasks of the story are indicative examples of the correct test questions from the EPSO, the European Union Personnel Selection Office.