Anyone from Eurostat present here? I tried tot look for jobs a few times, but many (all?) their positions require you to be 'delegated' from somewhere else. What's up with that and how does it work?
It means you're a civil servant in your own country (eg in the national statistical office) and you're sent to work at Eurostat for a period of time.
Does that mean most Eurostat staff isn't permanent?
I used to work for the Insee, the French public statistics institute. Eurostat is small, and more about coordination and harmonisation, whereas most of the production of survey and statistics where handled by the statistics offices of each country. And most of Eurostat specialist are delagated from countries' stat offices. So first, get a job there, then move to eurostat.