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You have been successful in a competition. Whathappens now?
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Reserve lists
What you should do
Reserve lists
After the end of each competition, EPSO provides the EU
Institutions with a list of successful candidates and their CVs in
electronic format. EPSO has no further role in therecruiting of
candidates by the Institutions. At the same time, EPSO establishes
the quota
per Institution, i.e. it determines how many successful
candidates on the list may berecruited by each Institution based on
the needs they expressed prior to publication of thecompetition,
and on the number of available successful candidates. As a general
rule, thequota is lifted one year after the publication of the
reserve list and Institutions can thenrecruit freely.
As the name indicates, the reserve lists constitute a pool of
potential recruits which is
valid, in general, for two to three years following the
competition. The validity of reservelists may be prolonged by EPSO
according to the needs of the Institutions. You will beinformed of
this by EPSO. It may take a considerable length of time before
candidates onthe reserve list are called for interview. It should
also not be forgotten that being on areserve list does not
guarantee you recruitment by the Institutions.
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Flagging
Each Institution has access to an internal tool for searching
through the reserve lists. For a period of about one month after
the end of the competition Institutions will look at their
recruitment needs in terms of the specific profiles sought and
other specific requirementsof the positions to be filled. They will
check the profiles of the candidates on the reservelist in order to
identify those who best match these needs, in terms of language
skills,
professional experience, education, etc. This process is known
as 'flagging', since once anInstitution identifies a candidate of
interest it declares this by setting a flag against thecandidates
name. This status is visible to all other Institutions as well as
the candidate
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concerned. Each successful candidate receives via his/her EPSO
Account a detailedexplanation of the flagging system.
Flagging system for open competitions
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Recruitment
As job opportunities arise, Institutions contact their flagged
candidates for interview anddepending on the outcome, may make a
formal job offer. For practical reasons, you mayalso be asked at
this time to undergo a medical examination which is required before
anydecision can be taken on appointment. Should you not fulfil an
Institution's needs, youare again made available for consideration
by other Institutions, i.e. the "flag" is reset toindicate your
availability once again.
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What you should do
Of crucial importance is that you update regularly your CV in
your EPSO Account. Thetool used to search through the reserve lists
by the Human Resources Departments of theInstitutions is based on
the classifications that you yourself chose in the
fieldsOccupational Category and Education Type. Making yourself
personally known to thoseInstitutions or Services in which you are
specifically interested may also help you, but thedecision to
"flag" and to invite a candidate for interview is made solely by
theInstitutions.
You can check via your EPSO Account if you have been flagged by
an Institution. If so,you may not contact another Institution to
solicit a job or an interview during the periodthat flag is set.You
may also check your status on the reserve list at any time by
followingthe relevant link in your EPSO Account. This link is
activated about one month after theend of the competition.
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What the Institutions will do
Flagged candidates are essentially reserved for a short period
(up to three months) by theInstitution who set the flag. At the end
of that period, should no recruitment offer have
been made by this Institution, the flag is removed and the
successful candidate is madeavailable once again for other
Institutions to consider.
The process of flagging first and foremost reflects the
recruitment needs of the
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