The European Union will put out job ads for administrator positions in the fields of economy, audit, public administration and law for specialists that are also Romanian citizens. Salaries for these positions start at 3,000 euros.
The recruitment will be done by the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO), and will target positions for various European institutions. The main requirements to apply are a college degree and command of a foreign language widely used in Europe.
The announcement is to be published some time this week; these jobs could pay at least 3,000 euros per month, European Integration Ministry representatives say. They could go to as much as 12 - 15,000 euros, depending on the position filled later.
Besides these positions, EPSO will also make secretarial positions available to Romanian citizens with secondary education. The European office last year recruited 100 Romanians as interpreters for conferences, with the salary for this job starting from 3,800 euros and put out an ad for 51 Romanian-speaking lawyer-linguists positions, whose minimum pay is 5,000 euros.
"Romania will benefit from several hundred specialist positions inside the European institutions, with the total number of staff to work for them set to exceed 500 people, including the positions that do not require higher education," stated Leonard Orban, state secretary within the European Integration Ministry.
He specified the process of recruiting and filling the vacancies is quite a lengthy one in general and entails selection from a very large applicant base, as there are about 100 people competing for each position.
He added that people are not assigned immediately, as there is also a period of time during which applicants that successfully passed various tests and were selected for a job are waiting to be appointed to one of the
