Spotlight On: 'Working for the EU: How to Get In' by Johannes de Berlaymont
Join Johannes de Berlaymont (AKA Martin Westlake) as he presents his latest book Working for the EU: How To Get In in conversation with Paul Adamson. This is part of UACES 'Spotlight On' series which helps to promote new books published by our members.
This event takes place online via MS Teams on Monday 9 December at 15:00 (GMT).
Just how do you get to work for the European Union? Most people would answer that you have to sit an EPSO generalist open competition at entry grade (AD5) level. But how is that possible? The last such open competition was organised over four years ago and EPSO’s new model open competition has been postponed several times. Moreover if, as now expected, a generalist open competition is launched next year it will be very heavily oversubscribed. In fact, there are other ways of getting in and many other ways of working for the EU – and not just the job-for-life administrator model.
In 2018 longstanding UACES member Martin Westlake, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe and the LSE’s European Institute, published the first edition of Working for the EU: How to Get In, using the pseudonym ‘Johannes de Berlaymont’. Martin/Johannes has just now published a new and fully updated edition of the book.
This book is essential reading for any UACES member wanting to know about the many ways to start and then go on to build a career in the EU public administration.
The new edition has been fully updated to take account of major developments such as the new format of EPSO competitions, but also and perhaps as importantly the increased availability of internal competitions, and important trends in the types of jobs and career pathways available.
The event will be moderated by longstanding UACES patron Paul Adamson, a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London, chairman of Forum Europe and founder and editor of Encompass, an online magazine dedicated to covering the European Union and Europe's place in the world.