Application procedure

The application procedure will take place as followed:

• Only applications made through the online application form will be considered. Please read all rules and regulations in this booklet . Application deadline = 2 January 2012

• Firstly, the applications will be screened for completeness of the form and basic eligibility of the cadidates.
  

• Two weeks after the application deadline, only the candidates that are accepted into the next round will be contacted by Talent for Governance.

! If you have not been contacted in one month after the application deadline, Talent for Governance has rejected your application. Since the right to reject a applicant lies with Talent for Governance at all times during the application process a possible rejection will not become the subject of discussion and/or correspondence.

• If you did get a positive response we will ask you for a more elaborate and detailed version of the real life case project proposal (to be submitted within two weeks)

In the following round the application will be scrutinized and checked even closer. The application will be screened on various criteria such as relevance, completeness, motivation, the feasibility and relevance of the real life case project  and the dissemination plan.We most likely will conduct a telephone call to evaluate the knowledge of the English language. Furthermore, we will need a statement that the candidate, once selected, will be willing and able to transfer the contribution for your participation in the programme. The Talent for Governance Supervisory board will decide on the final selection of applicants.

• Within six weeks after the first positive response you will receive the preliminary result to your application.

Three possible outcomes:

1. You are selected:

- you will then receive the contract letter which you will need to sign 
- you will be asked to send in a signed statement from a legal representative of your employer in which they state their approval for your attendance to the talent programme, support and agree with the real life case project you have submittted and (when asked) copies of a written work reference and of your certificates or diplomas.   

- Please note that the contract is void unless we receive the financial contribution within one month of signing the contract. We will start making further arrangements only when we have received the transferred contribution of 100 Euros or 200 Euros (see section 4.8 in the rules and regulations for more info).

2. You have been put on the waiting list

Talent for Governance depends on funds from third parties and the cooperation of Dutch local governments (internship opportunities) to be able to organize the talent programme. If more financial resources and internships are freed during the year, it could be possible that we can invite more talents than expected.

3. You are not selected

This means you were an eligible candidate but in comparison to other candidates you scored a few points lower. Please do try again next year. 

All possible rejections will be based on the documents and information provided by the applicant in comparison with our criteria and with those of other applicants (specifically the letter of motivation and the phone conversation) and the amount of internships available.

Talent for Governance holds the right to reject the applicant during all stages of the selection procedure. And the amount of placements for the Talentprogramme 2012 is entirely dependent on amount of funds raised by the charity Talent for Governance.