Magistratura do Trabalho CSJT

A law graduate who can prove at least three years of legal activity - advocacy, judicial or prosecutorial service, a public legal office, or teaching, depending on how the edital reads the constitutional requirement. Some regions impose additional conditions. Read the current edital and confirm documentary proof requirements with the organising TRT before applying.

Typically an objective multiple-choice examination, written discursive questions, a practical sentença, an oral examination before the banca, and evaluation of titles, with elimination at each stage. The exact sequence, scoring and number of items are fixed in the edital and vary between regions and editions.

Considerably harder. The objective phase eliminates heavily, discursive answers demand doctrine plus current jurisprudence, and the sentença is judged on structure as much as on conclusion. The difficulty lies in breadth combined with precision under pressure, not in trick questions. Most approved candidates have studied seriously for several years.

Yes. There is no fixed cap on attempts; you apply again whenever a TRT opens a new contest, provided you meet the conditions in that edital. Rules on reusing documents, on candidates already approved elsewhere, and on other particulars change between editions, so rely on the current text rather than on older ones.

Many candidates do, because the calendars differ and the syllabus overlaps almost entirely. Running two contests in the same cycle multiplies your writing practice and softens the impact of one bad day, at the cost of travel and organisation. Check for date clashes and read each edital before committing.

The calendar belongs to the organising TRT and is published in the edital and its retifications. Phases are sequential and separated by intervals for correction, publication of results and appeals. Rather than relying on estimates, follow the official notices and plan around the published dates, which the CSJT and TRT sites keep current.

Start with labour law and labour procedure, which dominate the objective and written phases and underpin the sentença. Add constitutional law early, since many labour questions are constitutional in disguise. Then cycle through the remaining subjects in blocks, keeping a weekly slot for writing so composition never becomes a last-minute skill.

Write complete decisions under timed conditions, using synthetic case files built from real TST decisions if you have no access to case files. Then read them as a desembargador would: is the report clean, the fundamentação complete, the dispositif precise? Have them corrected by someone who has sat the exam, and rewrite the same case until the structure is automatic.

No. You need to know what the consolidated positions say and apply them correctly to a concrete case, including overrulings and distinguishing. Examiners rarely want a number; they want the reasoning and the current statement of the TST or STF understanding. That familiarity comes from reading decisions, not from reciting lists.

Outdated jurisprudence, discursive answers that ignore the question actually asked, sentenças with incomplete fundamentação or an imprecise dispositif, and neglected Portuguese. Another frequent mistake is studying only labour law: the civil, constitutional and administrative questions decide close calls. Simulated exams with correction by an experienced examiner catch most of this early.