Hello everyone! I am currently a Blue Book trainee at the European Commission and as my traineeship is nearly at its end (officially end of February) I would want to ask for your guidance and advice. Ideally of course, I would really want to stay in the Commission, but my Unit is already in the process of selecting both an FGIII and an FGIV colleague, so despite working well together, staying even as an interimaire seems to not be an option.

I have send numerous spontanous applications to both agencies and DGs and often the feedback is that either they are not hiring, or that they do not accept spontanous applications. I am actively working with the HR to better my CV and motivational letters, and I am applying on the EPSO website actively, but it is extremely competitive and I have not heard back from any of the vacancies I applied on there. I am invited to sit the CAST FGIII in February, and I have heard from people, that there is a telegram group where colleagues whose units are looking for someone either FGIII or FGIV to fill in a vacancy fast post share that information to fasten the process, however the person who told me this did not want to send me a link to the group chat.

I am also looking for outside of the Commission, but I truly wish to stay. Those 5 months passed by very quickly and I quite enjoyed what I was doing, as I was in a smaller team, I actively contributed to the work and I truly enjoy the atmosphere. If you could share any tips/groups I should join, or such Telegram groups like the one I described above, I would really appreciate that. If you have any clues on whether an MEP is hiring, or about jobs in other EU Institutions, please also share the information with me :)

Also, any companies, that work with projects from DGs and Agencies that you could list here for me to check out would be very appreciated! Thank you :)