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With unemployment in Australia at 5.7% and forecast to rise, there is a lot of competition not only in the area of finding a new job but for people vying for a promotion or those entering the workplace for the first time.


Studying For The Police Exam - Advice

I wanted to talk to you about studying for the police exam. There are a lot of little things that you need to study for. Police officers are given a lot of extra powers in society, but with power come responsibility. That means there are a lot of extra regulations that come along that all police officers need to know at all times. This isn"t a standard exam you would of faced in high school because those exams were designed to measure aptitude, which is just a way of saying memorizing and regurgitating information. As a police officer you"re expect to understand what is going on and how to behave. I"m going to talk to you about studying for the police exam. I think the best way to describe this exam, is that it contains traps. In high school you wouldn"t have faced something like this. This exam will try to trick you and bait you to produce the wrong answer. It will also try to peg your understanding by wording things oddly. This is why it is essential to read a question a few times before you start to answer it. You have to make sure you understand what it is asking for, so you can at least demonstrate that you can read and understand. When you"re studying for the police exam you"re going to have to understand and I know that sounds like a stupid thing to say. Memorizing is an aspect of this, but you have to be able to apply it to situations. Do you think they"ll allow someone to go out in the field that only has a memorization of rules and regulations, without a full understanding of what it means? Of course not. Work on applying what you know to situations, so you learn exactly how things should work.


EPSO exam preparation - a waste of time?

Many people think that EPSO exam preparation is indeed a lottery: you study day and night, practice tests, seek advice and build hope that you will soon get an EU job, but the level of uncertainty is so high that you get more doubtful whether the efforts are worth it. We assure you they certainly are. Not convinced? Here is why we think so.

1. You gain an excellent EU knowledge. In the course of preparation, you must cover all aspects of the European Union: institutions, history, policies, decision-making, legal system, abbreviations and so on. Even if you don"t pass the exam, you can find a job at a Brussels-based consultancy, a think-tank or a diplomatic body of your country with such in-depth EU knowledge.Ò 

2. You become website-savvy. While you prepare, you will browse through dozens if not hundreds of websites starting from the role of the conciliation committee to animal welfare indicators. Silly? Some are, of course, but in the end you will be absolutely familiar with all online and offline sources of information. When your aunt asks about passenger rights after missing her airplane, you will know exactly where to look and what to look for. Useful? Certainly is.Ò 

3. You get to see the big picture. When reading news or listening to the BBC, you certainly wonder how to interpret that "the Environment Council approved the Commission"s proposal by qualified majority". After cramming through all these books and information, you not only see behind the scenes and understand what"s going on, but you can anticipate, interpret and know facts that you would otherwise never do.Ò 

4. You improve your skills. However fearful verbal and numerical reasoning is, practicing for such exams already improves your reading comprehension and mathematical skills. Calculating your monthly expenditure by heart not only makes your self-esteem rise but it has beneficial effects at work too: your boss or your university professor will be impressed by your improved analytical skills and the speed you understand complex graphs and reports.Ò 

5. You master time-management. Most of us study, work and do many time-consuming activities that take up most of the day. Yet preparing for EPSO exams is a challenging task that requires one or two hours of dedication a day, maybe even more in the weekend. Therefore developing efficient time management with your daily duties and errands becomes vital in the process and this will become such an asset that will help you wherever you end up or whatever you do after "Concours Day".Ò 

6. You will learn how to draft efficiently. While the first or second part of the exam focuses on multiple choice questions, the written exercise relates to drafting an essay, a memo or other similar task. To prepare for this we suggest drafting some sample essays that can be memorised beforehand and reproduced at the exam. This will greatly improve your writing skills and help you understand the essentials of creative writing, style and structure: extremely useful in any office job inside or outside the EU.Ò 

7. You can present yourself as a pro. After passing the written part of the exam you will be invited to an interview. Building up your profile, rehearsing answers to plausible questions, improving your presentation skills and body language will not go unnoticed even if you have an interview with a potential employer outside the EU bubble".






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