Mission

EPSO’s core mission is to meet the EU institutions’ recruitment needs by selecting talented candidates through generalist and specialist competitions. In carrying out this goal, EPSO acts as a trusted matchmaker between the EU institutions and high performing professionals and graduates. It thus contributes to the building of the current and future European civil service.

As an interinstitutional office, EPSO is responsible for selecting staff mainly for the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, the European External Action Service, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor. Each one of these institutions recruits staff from a pool of successful candidates provided by EPSO.

 

Vision

Their vision is to provide the EU institutions with the workforce that best matches their needs. This is accomplished by deploying high quality, efficient and effective selection procedures, together with an innovative approach.

The following drivers steer their set strategic direction:

• Proactivity and responsiveness
• Adopting an innovation mindset and the ability to anticipate trends in talent spotting
• Using selection methods that attract a diverse talent pool.
• Offering a catalogue of services reflecting the needs of the client institutions.
• Ensuring that procedures are clear, transparent and accessible to all candidates. Complaints are meant to be exceptional and acted on in the spirit of good administrative practices.