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EU Careers Competition

New career opportunities are now available for young multi-lingual British graduates.

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) has published an open competition for translators into English. It is open to people with a university degree and the requisite language skills to translate in writing from at least 2 official EU* languages into English, which must be of native-speaker standard.

The deadline for applications is 12 August 2010, 11.00 BST.

Candidates are subject to pre-selection computer-based tests, languages tests and one-day assessment tests in Brussels.

* The 23 official languages are: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.

For the EU careers competitions, at least one of the foreign languages must be French or German.

For further information and to apply click here.

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