General discussion for October 2012

wow, you must have something in your CV as you got accepted at so many :D Thanks for the information )) good luck to you too you said you were accepted at EP, like in the final selection and you refused?

raluca wrote:wow, you must have something in your CV as you got accepted at so many :D Thanks for the information )) good luck to you too you said you were accepted at EP, like in the final selection and you refused?

Hei, I have sent you a private message.

I didn`t get any pm :-??

raluca wrote:I didn`t get any pm :-??

Now I think you have it.

yes

just called the traineeship office and was told the limit to receive a confirmation email is 21/02/2012 more or less...

Just got the confirmation email. good luck to all of you

Hei.

Good news guys. there are only 9044 candidates this session . I feel for the Spanish and Italians which are really numerous.

Good luck to you all!

I think that number of 9044 is OK for Oct session, usually is above 10000.

Good luck to everyone!

Hi everyone!

I found this topic recently and since I also applied for a traineeship position at the EC your comments were really useful. So thank you all for that!
Btw, lulu where did you find the statistics on the number of the candidates?

Good luck to everybody!

@dori_ You can find the statistics on the homepage of the traineeships office: http://ec.europa.eu/stages/index_en.htm (to the left).

Thanks a lot saeyphi!
Does anybody know something about the per-country quotas? Just approximately...

Hi guys,

I have also got my email:) 9044 sounds good to me, but a lot will depend on luck, that's what i was told by the friend of mine, who is a current trainee.

So good luck to all!

I agree with marina.eva that luck is definitely an essential part, besides a good CV...unfortunately...

Hi there,

Glad to find this forum!

I recently received an email from the Traineeship Offices stating 'We are pleased to inform you, that due to a cancellation, you have been selected for a paid traineeship in the Directorate General A3, Translation and Document production, from 04/09/12 to 31/01/13...'

My query is (and it probably sounds stupid, apologies!), but does this email mean I have actually gotten an offer of a traineeship?? I have not done an interview or anything, is that unusual?

I'd love an insight, because I don't know if I actually have a job, or if I've just gotten though to the second stage of application!

imbroglio, I would pick up the phone and call to confirm. However, if you really did get this email, you should be very skeptical; seeing as how the pre-selection is just starting, never mind selection, it seems the offer may have been an internal error.
Good luck.

hipersons wrote:imbroglio, I would pick up the phone and call to confirm. However, if you really did get this email, you should be very skeptical; seeing as how the pre-selection is just starting, never mind selection, it seems the offer may have been an internal error.
Good luck.

Took your advice hipersons, sent a quick reply email. They told me that as long as I send all the relevant documents to them before March 1, then I will be offered the traineeship.

It all seems quite unusual, but I will send the documents anyway, and see what happens!

It doesn't seem unusual - it happens actually very often - every unit needs to have a number of candidates, if the candidate of their first choice accepted but then rejected the job in the last moment, they contact the second choice candidate - hence you.
Send the documents and start searching for a place in Brussels

Hopefully I will see you all over there!!

hi guys!
i applied for the EEAS...
i'm italian... so it ll be a tough competition!
good luck to you all!

Hello everyone,
I'm Romanian and I applied for a spot within the DG Environment. Are any fellow environmentalists around?
Good luck!

Alex, how come you've applied for DEG? we were allowed to select the area of employment rather than a DG.
i'm half romanian btw

Ok, sorry.
What I meant was that this particular DG is the one I'm most qualified for and it's also the one I mentioned in one of my essays.
So you're half Romanian (which is very cool! ) and half...?

RO/MD if that makes sense
but i've applied as non-EU, hope that was a wise thing to do...

Nice! I visited Chisinau a few years ago - cool city. I don't know what to say about your applying as non-EU...you'll find out whether it was a good choice or not soon enough. Fingers crossed!

could someone please tell me when should the results be published? i'm really unpatient here.

I think they will be published somewhen in the second half of April. So, unfortunately we have to wait at least a month yet...

What do you mean by result??
The list who is preselected? I tought that's going to be in July??

I have read somewhere that the list of preselected candidates will be published after mid-April but it's not sure, it always varies. In 2009, they started sending emails to preselected candidates at the end of May, in 2010 and 2011 at the beginning of June. I guess, for the final results we have to wait until July.

laplbn wrote:RO/MD if that makes sense
but i've applied as non-EU, hope that was a wise thing to do...

I don't know if you have some other reasons maybe, but statistically it seems more profitable to apply as Romanian: https://ec.europa.eu/stages/online/followup/application_statistics.cfm?session=77 the number of places available for the non-eu is almost equal to those available for the Romanians, but the number of applicants is 2x higher for the first group.

Best of luck anyway. By the way, Moldova is a great place, love Chisinau