The government is trying to fight to make the civil service more attractive. He is launching this Thursday in Paris a vast recruitment campaign around the slogan “Choose public service”. “This is the first time since 2016 that we have had a national public job fair face-to-face in France, I want to attract as many people as possible,” said Minister of Public Service Stanislas Guerini to AFP. .
Bordeaux University Hospital, Nord department, Court of Auditors… Around fifty stands run mostly by public employers from the State, hospitals and communities are planned at Station F, while nearly 58,000 positions are currently to be filled. in the public sector.
Nearly 40% of applicants undergoing professional retraining
Individual CV preparation workshops and mock job interviews will also be offered to the 5,000 registered visitors to the show, in addition to various conferences and round tables throughout the day. Among the participants expected at Station F, almost half are job seekers and 40% are in professional retraining.
Before even thinking about recruiting, the challenge is also to make known the multitude of professions exercised by the 5.7 million public officials in France. The show is therefore “the starting point” of a national communication campaign intended to “promote the public service professions and the transformations underway within the public service itself”, according to a press release published Wednesday by the ministry.
The exhibition and the communication campaign are launched a few weeks after the publication of a report by the Court of Auditors which showed the worrying evolution of the number of civil servants. In 2022, they have indeed decreased by 5,765 full-time equivalents in the ministries, where the government was counting in the initial budget on a few hundred job creations. “Between 2018 and 2022, the state budget experienced three years of decline in public employment resulting in the loss of 10,286 jobs”, was further alarmed by the Court of Auditors.