New EPSO recruitment model for Civil Servants is wrong

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) new model of the Computer Based Test about the recruitment for Civil Servants.







It's NOT possible to have open competitions based only with 2 types of preselection tests: EU Test and Verbal and numerical reasoning.







In the past (2006) there were 3 preselection tests:







1) Eu test (20 pass mark / 40 total questions)



2) Verbal and numerical reasoning test (20 pass mark /40 total questions)



3) Specialized test (20 pass mark /40 total questions)(administrative, enviroment, research, information technology)







The last competition: Information and media (EPSO/AD/94/07-EPSO/AST/37/07) has a total of 30 questions for 2 tests:







1) EU policies (10 total questions / pass mark 5)



2) Verbal and numerical reasoning (20 total questions / pass mark 10)







- There are thousands of candidates.







Only the best 330 (number that is written on the O.J.) candidates will pass this part, it means that you have to do 30/30 and to have a chance to pass the preselection tests, independently of your competencies in the competition specific field.







- We can estimate that with the average number of candidates in a competition like this, let's say 25.000 canditates, more than 330 people will score 30/30. What will the criteria be in this case?







-A chemist could pass the preselection tests of an open competition about Information and Media "stealing" the position to a pure inherent candidate.







-The chemist will also raise the passing threshold.







For both competitors and EU institutions, the old competition model was more productive one.







We have to change it.