Ten days after the opening of the platform for applying for participation in the Panhellenic competition ASEP (Superior Board of Personnel Selection) per graduates of higher educational institutions and technical specialties and 35,500 applications have already been submitted and 13,500 are “open for submission” so they are expected to be submitted in the coming days. The application deadline ends (unless an extension is granted) on 20 December (Tuesday at 2:00 pm) and the competition is expected to take place in March. Applicants must write in the appropriate field of the online application and pay the electronic fee before the application is submitted. Without a license number, it is not possible to finalize the application, emphasizes ASEP, which recommends that applicants do not wait until the last day to submit an application. “The last few days it has become a common practice to submit too many applications,” notes the ASEP representative.

New tests

Candidates have become very confused, as evidenced by the groups created on the Internet, in connection with the new tests included in the competition for the first time, the skills test and the performance test. Characteristically, in the Facebook group, after a long discussion about these new tests – “it will be multiple choice” or “it will have exercises” – the candidate invites as many candidates as possible to send an email to ASEP asking for clarification of the material and books. ASEP, to make it easier for candidates, publishes examples of the types of questions that will be included in the skills and performance test.

As announced by the Supreme Council, there will be numerical reasoning questions that aim to assess candidates’ ability to reason logically by deciphering the relationship between given numbers. There will also be verbal questions that assess candidates’ ability to understand the relationship between words and concepts in order to arrive at a “solution”. These are exercises found in skill tests. The exam will also ask candidates how they would react to a hypothetical situation they might encounter at work, choosing from the scenarios provided. Following the example of ASEP: “You work in the body responsible for processing applications for social benefits, where the application can only be submitted online, but many citizens come in person, fearing that they will not be able to do it on time. How are you? 1. You accept applications 2. You save their contact details 3. You inform citizens that this is not possible and ask them to leave 4. You reassure citizens that the service is aware of the problem and an extension is planned, but the collection of manuscripts is not possible. The correct answer is “4”.