5.0
29 Feb 2016
Current employee, more than 10 years
Brussels
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Working for the European Commission means workng with 30 different nationalities, hearing different languages in the corridors, being aware of multiculturalism. There are endless job oportunities in different areas and the salary compensation is very good.
Cons
Securing a job in the Commission is not an easy task: you either chose ot work as a contractual agent which means the post is secured for a maximum of 6 years after which there is NO WAY you can stay further; or then you chose to compete against 30.000 Europeans from all over Europe for +-130 posts. The process takes +- a year and there are so many different stages in it that you sometimes forget that you have even enrolled in this battle.